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Friday, 05 September 2008 |
A top Samsung UK executive has demolished Blu-ray’s chances of being
relevant for more than about 5 years, if that, in an interview with UK
tech site Pocket-link. How “blu” must Sony be feeling with Samsung
right now?!
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
Mid September is the date that Palm’s Treo Pro will finally hit the
Australian market, with Telstra announcing today that it’s the first
Next G smartphone/PDA to get the “Blue Tick” for better coverage in
rural and regional areas.
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
IE8 has finally launched in beta 2 mode, dubbed “ready” for consumers to play with and try, and so far, it seems to match the competition with long-overdue features, while adding some new ones of its own. Should you download it?
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
Pilloried over the past few years for being “Norton Internet
Bloatware”, the developers at Symantec have listened, completely
re-engineering its venerable Internet Security software, transforming
it into a lean, mean malware fightin’ machine. It’s seriously
impressive!
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
Yet another massive mobile broadband offering has landed in Australia,
this time from iPrimus, promising not only a 6GB and a (consumer-level)
unmatched 12GB plan, but also the promise of a speed-limited service
after the download limit is reached, banishing those super-expensive
excess download charges. What’s the catch?
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
What should you do to protect yourself, your computer, your online
accounts and your digital self from being hacked? As with all
protective measures, there’s no one single “magic bullet” solution, but
instead, layers of protective technologies and practices that you need
to employ to thwart the “bad guys” on multiple levels. Please read on.
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Monday, 25 August 2008 |
The school children of the Island of Niue have been
the recipients of a technological donation: 500 XO OLPC laptops.
Fantastic, or folly?
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
After much price competition from 3 Mobile, Optus and Vodafone, Telstra
has finally moved to increase the value of its Next G wireless
broadband plans for consumers and business. They’re still a lot more
expensive than competitors, but the introduction of a 10GB plan will
make some users very happy indeed.
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
Victory for the “eBay Rebels”? It’s all thanks to the August 15
“Payments System Board Meeting”, where the Reserve Bank of Australia
decided to act on eBay’s desire to mandate usage of or through its
PayPal online payments system, proclaiming a “view to seeking the
removal of these rules”.
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
At long last, Australia’s original 3G provider and arguably one of its
most competitive, 3 Mobile, is expanding its previously mostly
capital-city only 56% coverage to a much better 96% population coverage
by mid 2009 – but will roaming costs come down, too?
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
Sick to death of the bad publicity Windows Vista has received due to
Microsoft’s own premature announcements, hastily deleted features,
incredibly poor initial driver support and bad OEM manufacturer
relations, Microsoft is promising its new Windows 7 blog will be
regularly updated, full of reliable disclosure and a solid commitment
to “promise and deliver” with “high quality and on time”. Is Microsoft
on the right track, or will pigs fly first?
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
Telecommunications, an ever expanding frontier. This is the latest
chapter in the voyages of the Starship Telstra, it’s continuing mission
to deliver new handsets, to seek out new customers and extend existing
contracts, and to boldly go where its competitors will soon follow: the
launch of the BlackBerry Bold!
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
Announced at the Australian launch of Windows Vista on January 30,
2007, and due to launch in April 2007, Australian music store “Sanity”
has finally launched Australia’s first music subscription service on
the 14th of August 2008. Is it worth it?
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
The news that Telstra has launched a DRM-free MP3 option on BigPond is
all over the news, and it has been a long time in coming. Yes, there’s
the talk that iTunes is in danger, but now that the DRM demon has been
slain for music, video should be next!
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
Little more than two months after the launch of the iPhone 3G, the
first Google Android handset looks set to arrive much earlier than
expected through an exclusive “pre-sale” with T-Mobile in the US,
coming with a raft of iPhone-killing specs that must surely be adding
some spice to the close Apple and Google relationship!
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
After an epic delay of years, Apple has finally managed to secure movie
sales and rentals on the iTunes store for Australians and New
Zealanders – but only in high-def through the Apple TV!
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
Watch out iTunes – BigPond has done deals with all four major record
labels and the leading independents to create a music store with MP3s
that will work on any music player – iPods and iPhones included. But
the world still waits for DRM-free videos...
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
Ever fancied getting an Asus Eee PC in a tiny desktop case? With the
Eee Box, you can do exactly that, in what is effectively a PC version
of Mac Mini-type computing solution with a cute Nintendo Wii-style
case, Intel Atom processor and great energy efficiency.
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