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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
Australian Federal Opposition Communications Spokesperson Bruce Billson
says a letter from the Auditor-General shows that Federal
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has breached his own “broadband
tender requirements”.
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
Based on the high popular Spb “Mobile Shell”, Spb Software House has
showcased a new “Online Shell” at Australia’s CeBIT tech conference. It
brings a range of online multimedia entertainment and information
services using the Mobile Shell interface, which itself brought a very
iPhone-esque experience to drab Windows Mobile devices.
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
Microsoft is planning on releasing SP2 in 2009, with support to save
documents in ODF format as standard, in the name of ‘interoperability’,
while adding PDF and XPS save/export compatibility without requiring
any add-on software. The EU’s Commission has ‘taken note’ and welcomed
the decision, while promising to investigate it further. What does this
mean?
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
JVC, well known for its Everio range of hard disk equipped camcorders,
is launching a new model that records exclusively to SD memory cards,
and can automatically upload to YouTube once synched with your PC.
While this sounds like a good idea, your existing digital camera is
likely already more than good enough for YouTube videos – so is this
new model worth it or a solution looking for a problem?
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
Although faster fibre broadband in Australia will still take years to
build, the process has been delayed by another 12 weeks to give
potential bidders more time to examine network information before
lodging their proposals.
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
With an apparent desire for “one digital media box to rule them all”,
Internet video has finally come of age, according to Cisco, showing
Internet video is highly popular in Australia and NZ. What are we
watching?
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 |
Lumbered with a laptop computer that has three of the drivers Microsoft
specially detected to prevent Vista SP1’s download, jumping aboard the
SP1 train via Windows Update was something Microsoft was specifically
preventing me from doing. But I’ve loaded it anyway. What are my
experiences so far, and how did I do it?
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
Anyone with an ABN (Australian Business Number), i.e. a business owner,
can now go to selected retailers to take advantage of a “$0 upfront”
laptop with 1GB of Next G mobile broadband per month, for AUD $99 per
month. Is it really a good deal, or could you do better by yourself?
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
A Hungarian student has hurled three eggs at Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer during a talk a Budapest’s Corvinus University on Monday,
hurled some abuse, missed Ballmer and was hurled away for his troubles!
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
With all the news that iPhone deals are happening with telcos around
the world, including Vodafone and Optus in Australia, an eagle eyed
reader noticed that an iPhone pre-registration box on Vodafone
Australia’s home page came – and went. Has Vodafone lost access to the
world’s most desirable digital device, the (presumed 3G) iPhone?
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
It’s not just old videogame classics that can be downloaded direct to
your Nintendo Wii, but brand new Wii specific titles through Nintendo’s
new WiiWare download service – launching today!
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
I’ve been playing with Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1, and by the
looks of it, things bode well for its June release, but it still faces
stiff competition from IE7, Opera 9.5 and Safari 3.
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
AMD’s new “GAME!” badge is an attempt to outdo Intel’s famous “Intel
Inside” sticker of the 90s, but this time appealing directly to gamers
who want a top-notch system without needing to know how to build one
themselves. Will consumers follow AMD’s GAME!plan?
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
The man who once was the president of OLPC, the initiative to provide
“one laptop per child” to some of the world’s poorest and digitally
divided children, has joined Sugar Labs. Why? To do what Nicholas
Negroponte won’t – providing open source opportunities for learning,
instead of being just another laptop seller.
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
While it’s not official, the long awaited high definition content
pricing for Australian pay television operator, Foxtel, has been leaked
– and should launch soon. Australia is far behind the US when it comes
to the provision of pay TV high definition television content, although
some HD programming has been available on free-to-air TV for some time.
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
“Australia”, the upcoming blockbuster-to-be from director Baz Luhrmann,
starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, is having its trailer released
on the Internet first by Australia’s largest ISP, BigPond – but when
will the same happen for movies themselves?
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
US telco Sprint is finally moving ahead with its WiMAX plans and will
have a WiMAX 4G network installed in Baltimore and Washington DC by the
end of 2008, after a year of endless testing - but two cities is far
from complete US coverage.
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
The full version of Firefox 3 is due in June, but Firefox 3 in beta
status is no more, having been issued as Release Candidate 1 for some
near final testing before the full version is unleashed onto a Firefox
loving web wide world!
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