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