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Thursday, 04 June 2009 |
With all the Google launches of this week and last, co-incidentally
right at the same time Microsoft has launched its new Bing search
engine, Google has also gone Squared, and has surrounded itself with
celebrity star power!
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 |
After the successful launch of Google Flu Trends in the US and Mexico
last year, Google has arrived in the midst of the “Swine Flu”
mini-pandemic to deliver “Google Flu Trends for Australia and NZ”, and
just in time for the traditional flu season in the southern hemisphere.
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 |
Australia’s largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank, has been undergoing a
series of phishing attacks that have gone from simple alerts of
“banking errors”, through to chances of winning money, and now an
attack that wants CommBank users to call a number and verify their
details to a talking computer – but it’s all just a phishing scam!
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 |
In a sign that the “broadband cap increase” wars for 3G services is
still alive and kicking, Internode has finally increased its $39.95 cap
from a measly 3GB to a much nicer 5GB limit.
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 |
No more is Microsoft pretending that Windows 7 will arrive in 2010,
instead confirming to the media that October 22 is the true release
date, but MSDN, TechNet and BitTorrent members will get it much
earlier, in late July or early August!
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 |
In a week of duelling announcements from Microsoft and Google, what
with MS Bing and Google Wave, Google has gone into overdrive with a
series of announcements to blow Microsoft out of the water and off the
headlines!
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 |
Although no pricing has yet been revealed, Microsoft has confirmed it
will launch Windows 7 on October 22, 2009, blowing away the “2010”
launch nonsense Microsoft tried perpetuating, while also suggesting
discounts to Vista users might be in the works!
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 |
There’s been much hoopla over the next HTC Google gPhone, both from
Vodafone and 3 Mobile, and now Vodafone has finally released its
magical pricing structure. Abracadabra?
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 |
Microsoft’s brand new search engine, Bing, has not only burst earlier
onto the scene that was being let on, it has thus far avoided Cuil’s
launch fate – but with the launch less than 24 hours old, it’s far too
early to tell!
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Monday, 01 June 2009 |
A little slice of Mountain View has made its way to Sydney Australia,
with Google opening a brand new 6-Star, Green Star headquarters packed
to the brim with Page and Brin’s employees – and opened by the
Governor-General.
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Monday, 01 June 2009 |
No, this isn’t a late goodbye to Sol Trujillo, but instead a fond
farewell to the Telstra pip tones that, for 40 years, let you know your
phone bill was getting massive by the minute!
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Monday, 01 June 2009 |
No, you won’t need to go to Google to find Bing – all you need to do is
to visit Bing.com where you’ll find that Bing is now in beta.
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Monday, 01 June 2009 |
The latest set of iPhone 3.0 hardware rumours has percolated through
the Web, delighting iPhone users who want a much more powerful device,
disappointing those who wanted more, while causing others to doubt
whether the rumours are really true!
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Saturday, 30 May 2009 |
Microsoft has finally confirmed its crazy 3-app limit idea is being
removed from Win 7 Starter Edition, now letting netbook owners run as
many apps as they want, but Microsoft’s mentality in still offering the
Starter Edition at all is still the real problem!
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Friday, 29 May 2009 |
Basking in the new launch limelight is Bing.com, Microsoft’s new search
thing which aims to massively boost its share of the search engine
market, but while things look good at the launch event, the real battle
gets down to business in less than a week!
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Friday, 29 May 2009 |
Steve Ballmer is set to shortly announce “Bing”, its new Google-killing
search engine with such amazing search simplicity and satisfaction that
we will all be truly stunned. But will Bing just bring useless search
bling, or will it be the real search thing – and does the Bing logo
look just like that from British Paints?!?
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 |
Although Vodafone proclaims it is “thrilled to be on the foot-front of
innovation” in bringing Visual Voicemail to Australians more than 2
years after AT&T customers enjoyed it on day one, Vodafone’s
tardiness is at least much faster than Telstra or Optus who still don’t
offer it at all.
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 |
The power of alert users and the press has uncovered an Optus contract
snafu surrounding slowdown speeds when broadband limits are reached,
with Optus only delivering half of what was promised. Will Optus ever
get it right?
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