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Heaven: Windows 7 will be called Windows 7
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Although XP and Vista were names of Windows that didn’t date the year after they were launched, Microsoft has gone with “year” names for Office and server versions of Windows for years. But the previously codenamed Windows 7 won’t be Windows 2009 or 2010, it will be Windows 7 – and it’s a first!

 
Google Android phone goes gangbusters on pre-orders
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
In terms of pre-orders which are now totalling 1.5 million, Google's first Android G1 gPhone is certainly hitting the gSpot, while reports say South Africa will also get the gPhone in 2009.

 
Kingston pops 32GB into a USB flash drive!
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
The flash memory revolution keeps on revving up, with 32GB now a standard USB flash memory drive capacity at prices that anyone can afford. Cool!

 
OpenOffice 3.0 released, ready for download
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Finally out of the beta and release candidate versions, Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been released for anyone to download and try for themselves. Here's my "first look" at this brand new Office suite!

 
India shines the light on the solar-powered rickshaw
Monday, 13 October 2008
People pulling around rickshaws in India could one day be a thing of the past – replaced instead with solar-powered motorised bicycle-drawn rickshaws known as the “Soleckshaw”.

 
Go ogle Google as it was back in 2001!
Monday, 13 October 2008
Wow - way back in 2001, only a few years after Google launched in 1998, the 2001 index only let you search through a mere 1,326,920,000 web pages – and we can see that in 1999, Google had a Yahoo!-esque exclamation mark. My how times have changed...

 
Will an ‘S’ in SSD soon stand for Seagate?
Monday, 13 October 2008
Seagate, the world’s largest hard disk manufacturer, is slowly making the move towards the solid state disk (SSD) space, but faces fierce competition from the very NAND manufacturers it will buy its NAND memory from.

 
Is the UK’s Ministry of Defence really the Ministry of Data Loss?
Monday, 13 October 2008
Yet another UK “data loss” scandal has erupted, with the shocking news that “up to” 700,000 defence personnel have been exposed to whoever has an unencrypted hard drive with all of this personal information.

 
Watch out for fake Microsoft “Security Update” email
Monday, 13 October 2008
Online criminals are once again trying to fool computer users into loading malware onto their computers, this time using an email with a “security update” attached, purporting to be from Microsoft.

 
YouTube screws non-US netizens with US-only full length TV eps
Sunday, 12 October 2008
YouTube finally gets the right to legally show full length episodes of select TV shows, such as Star Trek, MacGyver and the original 90210 from CBS, then screws all those Internet users not in the US by saying "This video is not available in your country". Thanks YouTube and CBS for nothing!

 
Go ogle the T-Mobile Google G1 Android phone emulator!
Friday, 10 October 2008
Want to see what the Google gPhone is really like, and whether it hits the gSpot– or misses it completely? Then come and play with the G1 simulator and “literally” take it for a spin!

 
YouTube “malware” sites threaten web users
Friday, 10 October 2008
A warning has gone out that fake YouTube pages are loading malware onto users’ computers - how can you protect yourself?!

 
Microsoft’s “Unwieldy And Clumsy” UAC fixed in Windows 7?
Friday, 10 October 2008
Microsoft’s “Engineering Windows 7” blog has announced that the UAC prompts in Vista are being worked on in Windows 7 to reduce them, make them more informative and to provide more obvious control over the UAC mechanism. Cancel or allow?

 
Apple’s notebook invitation – new MacBook design at last?!
Friday, 10 October 2008
The rumours of an Apple event to release new MacBooks on October 14 have turned out to be true, after all, following Apple’s invitation that shows a titanium notebook with glowing Apple logo, and the tagline: “The spotlight turns to notebooks”.

 
The ASUS S101 slim Eee PC – not worth buying?
Friday, 10 October 2008
It’s all over the news – Asus is launching the slimmest netbook that comes close to challenging the MacBook Air in sleekness and slamming it in price, but certainly not in power, screen or keyboard size, while being pretty pricey all its own. Won’t 2009 be the year of a zillion slim netbooks at ever better pricing?

 
Telstra BigPond launches 24/7 online and mobile news “channel”
Thursday, 09 October 2008
Calling it the “first” online and mobile dedicated 24 hour news channel, Telstra has taken a customised “Sky News” feed and made it “freely” available online, or for $1.95 per day or $4.95 per month for Telstra Next G mobile customers.

 
Ford not taking the mickey on teen driver safety, delivers MyKey
Wednesday, 08 October 2008
Think of MyKey as the ultimate car key to “parental control” in 2008, letting you set speed and audio volume limits for teen drivers among other safety features. It’s meant to deliver safer driving, improved fuel efficiency and increased parental peace of mind, while parents get their own key without the limitations.

 
Price drop: Vodafone’s mobile broadband gets cheaper
Wednesday, 08 October 2008
A day after Optus raised prices on pre-paid mobile broadband, Vodafone cuts its prices instead, showing competition is alive and well in the 3.5G wireless broadband market.

 
Have consumers spoken and said: “Linux sux”?
Tuesday, 07 October 2008
Uh-oh. Hazmat time. 0.001% of 1.04%* of the world’s Linux die-hard supergeeks are about to descend and call me all kinds of names, but facts are facts: one of the world’s biggest makers of netbooks says Linux models are being returned at a rate at least four times higher than XP netbooks. Could it be that Linux sucks?

 
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