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Saturday, 09 August 2008 |
The sparkling is back, with the iPhone Dev Team releasing the keenly
awaited PwnageTool 2.0.2, bringing an unlock and jailbreak to the
iPhone 2G, and jailbreaks to the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch.
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Saturday, 09 August 2008 |
The update for PwnageTool 2.0.2 to jailbreak iPhone 2G and 3G models,
and unlock the iPhone 2G, was moved to the iPhone Dev Team’s “sparkle
update system” when a serious bug was noticed – and the update removed.
But the sparkling will start happening once more in a few hours!
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
Original iPhone and iPhone 3G owners wanting to update to iPhone OS
2.0.1 while maintaining a jailbroken status don’t have much longer to
wait, with the iPhone Dev Team saying the software should arrive
“Friday”, although that’s likely Saturday for Australians.
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
Got an IceTV subscription and a compatible PVR, Windows Media Center PC
or IceTV on your Mac? Sure, IceTV has allowed mobile phone users to
browser to its “remoterecord” website to do the same thing, but why not
create a dedicated iPhone app – and a Facebook app to come soon, too?
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) has reached a “key moment”
with August 22 set as the date by which carriers must submit the
remaining “network information” the Government wants to send to NBN
bidders, so they can then start finalising their NBN proposals. But as
telecoms analyst Paul Budde states, the FttN proposed for Australia is
already out of date, with FttH the preferred standard being rolled out
overseas.
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
(Updated since publication:) iPhone
OS 2.0.1 has arrived, promising faster surfing speeds, snappier program
operation and lots of other as-yet unknown bug fixes, but the big
question for unlocked and jailbroken iPhone
owners on OS 2.0 is whether or not it’s safe to upgrade. Here’s what I
did to make it work, although any attempt you do at trying the same is
at your own risk!
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
The controversial “Street View” feature of Google Maps first launched
in the US has now come to Australia, raising privacy fears while giving
the world a street level view of the land down under. Go ogle it and
see what you think!
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
Previewed to the press over a month ago as Telstra exclusive, the HTC
Touch Diamond has finally landed on store shelves to challenge the
iPhone 3G for smartphone supremacy.
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
The UK’s Daily Mail is reporting that Apple will shortly launch the
iPhone nano, and has quoted an expert with a curious idea that’s either brilliant... or stupid.
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Saturday, 02 August 2008 |
3D TV
has been promised as the “next big thing” for years, but while
consumers can now buy one, play selected 3D games through a PC and
watch 2D DVD converted to “3D” through a PC, as well as 3D movies, all
with special glasses, 3D television programming isn’t here yet.
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
I went to have a look at Telstra’s new 3D TV display, destined for
advertising and use in retail, enterprise and government installations,
and had the chance to find out how the 3D TV is displayed, and to get some more questions answered. Read on!
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
Virgin Mobile, a subsidiary of Optus, has finally launched the iPhone
3G as widely predicted, but with the surprise of a ginormous 5GB data
plan – the first decent iPhone data plan yet. But with pricing for the
16GB and the 8GB model on the $100 plan identical, why would anyone
bother with the 8GB unit? And what about concerns that Virgin Mobile’s
broadband network is “not reliable"?
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
The Aussie mobile data revolution is affecting even Telstra, perhaps
not at the much faster speeds than we’re seeing at 3 Mobile, Optus and
Vodafone, but affecting them nevertheless, boosting the $29/80MB plan
to 300MB, amongst others. But when will Telstra announce data cap
increase for its more expensive 1GB and 3GB plans?
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
3 Mobile has launched iPhone specific plans for those with unlocked
iPhone 3G models, challenging the incumbents Optus, Vodafone and
Telstra with 1GB and 2GB plans at low rates – but given how often a 3G
iPhone can drop to 2GB for data, is 3 Mobile worth the risk?
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
In-home tech support company Gizmo, covering the PC, AV and digital
lifestyle space, and top-tier PC manufacturer Dell, have joined forces
in Australia to provide a more complete hardware and support offering –
but it’s not an “exclusive” deal.
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
Telstra already has phones operating at “up to” 7.2Mbps on its Next G
network, but the LG KF390 is the first 7.2Mbps-class phone to achieve
“Blue Tick” status, something Telstra recommends for “handheld use” in
rural and regional areas.
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
Although 3D TV has been demonstrated over several years at technology
trade shows, for gaming, advertising, television, movies and more,
Telstra claims it’s first to commercially install the technology at its
“Executive Briefing Centre” in Melbourne, Australia.
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
Smartphone maker Palm, which once enjoyed the incredible media,
consumer and developer attention currently being lavished upon the
iPhone, has shown its far from out of the race by shipping more than 2
million of its Centro models, while an ad network report shows more
mobile Internet ads are served to Palm devices than iPhones.
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