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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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!
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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!
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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”?
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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?
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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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