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Microsoft’s new “Global Anti-Piracy Day” must have Linux users laughing
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Ahoy there me timbers, if ye be piratin’ Microsoft software, then ye better start shiverin’ and be warned: Microsoft is comin’ out to make software pirates walk the plank, in a co-ordinated global effort across 49 countries in six continents to “combat the sophisticated, illegal trade of pirated and counterfeit software”.

 
Why did Apple put out the FireWire?
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Although the death of FireWire was long ago telegraphed when Apple stopped supporting it on the iPod, the untimely death of FireWire on the new MacBook has really fired up users who have lots of FireWire based equipment and want a MacBook – not a MacBook Pro.

 
Motorola readies its own Android phone, hopes to save company
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Can an Android save Motorola from the mobile phone doldrums, caught between having the highest selling phone in the US with the RAZR, but also only making profits thanks to cost cutting while trying to offload its handset business?

 
Keep your sperm away from mobile phones, heated car seats
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
If you’re a guy that uses a mobile phone, the latest research suggests that using a mobile phone could be bad for sperm health, although the study in question used a machine that created the same sort of radiation for 16 hours straight on sperm for damage to appear.

 
Britney Spears, the toxic, womanizing, hit-generating tweeter?
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Oops... Britney Spears has done it again, thrusting herself into the limelight with a new website that has garnered over a million hits in 24 hours, taking on the social networking world with an all out “friend” assault and tweeting like a song bird on the messaging website Twitter.

 
BigPond makes shaped wireless broadband the new standard?
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Although iPrimus and Virgin offer shaped broadband on their mobile broadband plans, with Telstra only now offering the same feature on its 5GB and 10GB plans, how soon will it be before shaped wireless plans are the norm for all users?

 
New MacBook rumour: it’s got hardware video decoding
Monday, 20 October 2008
MacRumors is suggesting the new NVIDIA powered MacBook and MacBook Pro models have received hardware decoding of H.264 video, not available on the previous versions even though their respective cards had hardware decoding capabilities, but Apple isn’t confirming.

 
World’s thinnest LCD screen now 7.9mm, from Samsung
Monday, 20 October 2008
Thin is in, with prototype LCD TV screens already thinner than the 2nd-generation iPod Touch, and Samsung has just done 0.1mm better than LG Philips’ previous record of 8mm. No word yet on when it will go commercial, but we do know the trick they’ve used to go go gadget thin...

 
Ballmer’s buzz on Windows 7
Sunday, 19 October 2008
Speaking at the final keynote of Gartner’s “Symposium ITxpo” in the US, Ballmer explained Microsoft’s stance on Windows 7, saying it’s “Vista but a lot better”, yet insisting Windows 7 is a major OS revision, and not a minor one, while criticising Google Apps. Oh, and yeah, it’s ok to wait if you want.

 
The “Eeeasy and trendEee” Asus Eee PC S101 now in stores
Friday, 17 October 2008
Dubbed by Asus as “the supermodel of netbooks”, the S101 Eee PC is now on sale at “select retailers” in Australia, but while its size is positivelEee ultra trim, it’s a shame the $999 price isn’t also on a diet, although you can't expect Asus to give the S101 away for frEee!

 
New 17-inch MacBook Pro due next year, not by Macworld?
Friday, 17 October 2008
An online report suggests the reason why the 17-inch MacBook Pro (MBP) didn't get the swish new aluminium cases of the new 13-inch MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro was because of issues in "ramping up production", thus "delaying them by a few months". In short, if you want to upgrade your existing 17-inch MBP, why bother doing it now?

 
Sony Ericsson releases world’s first AM/FM radio in mobile phone
Friday, 17 October 2008
Well, I almost can’t believe it – finally someone has figured out how to put an AM radio, and not just an FM radio, into a mobile phone, something that I’ve wanted for years. While SE’s “R306” does the job with a couple of nifty enhancements, it’s a pity the R306 is a basic, low-end 2G model rather than the latest 8 megapixel 3.5G Cybershot, but this also means it’s cheap, cheerful and does the job.

 
Firefox 3.1 beta lands on Planet Earth, not ready for most Earthlings
Thursday, 16 October 2008
If you love trying out public beta browsers, then you’ll be rushing to download the beta of Firefox 3.1, and while you’ll lose access to your favourite plug-ins, there are some interesting new features that all Firefox users will enjoy once 3.1 goes gold.

 
BigPond again to pre-launch Baz Luhrmann’s second “Australia” trailer
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Always one to promote its online services, Telstra is again using the BigPond website and its Next G network to “exclusively preview” the second trailer of Baz Luhrman’s “epic Australia movie” 24 hours before it is released to other mediums.

 
SanDisk wants microSD cards to displace CDs, launches “Shuffle-like” player
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Just as most CDs are DRM-free, so are SanDisk’s new “slotMusic” microSD cards, offering music in “up to 320kbps” DRM-free MP3 format. Available in stores pre-loaded with music from a range of popular artists and selling at an RRP of US $14.95 each, with some packaged with a Shuffle-like SanDisk player (on sale for US $20 alone) for a total of $34.95, is this a new front in the digital music revolution, or a waste of time in the face of the download reality?

 
Sandisk Extreme IV 16GB cards land in Australia and NZ
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Professional photographers in Australia and NZ will likely be smiling at the availability of SanDisk’s Extreme IV 16GB card, matching SanDisk’s “Ducati Edition” in speed but doubling the capacity, although at AUD $450 a pop you’ll need to be a pro-photographer to pay for it!

 
New MacBooks, new 24” screen but no $800 netbook - meh
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Apple has launched upgraded new models of its MacBook and MacBook Pro models, as well as a super-expensive 24” screen, but the much rumoured $800 Mac “netbook” was a no-show. Is it all a load of “meh”?

 
What’s that? EU wastes money on mp3 loud sound risk study
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Remember the warnings in the 80s about listening to your Walkman at too high a volume, and recent warnings the same was the case with mp3 players and iPods? EU scientists have released new “scientific opinion” that 5-10% of mp3 users risk permanent hearing loss. So, what’s new?

 
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!

 
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