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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 |
The rumour mongers had many things right in their educated guesses for
what any new iPhone 3G successor might bring to the table, but while
they had plenty of things wrong, too, the iPhone 3G S is still a worthy
upgrade to the world’s best smart phone. Apple also introduced OS X
10.6, with a US $29 upgrade plan, and cheaper MacBooks, including the
re-emergence of the Firewire 800 port on the 13-inch model.
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Monday, 08 June 2009 |
We’re yet to see whether iPhone OS 3.0 launches for download in a few
hours time, along with a new iPhone itself, or if both will be delayed,
but the iPhone Dev Team has warned against rogue downloads promising
yellowsnow updates, fake 3.0 unlocks and even upgrading to iTunes 8.2
itself.
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Monday, 08 June 2009 |
The potential iPhone 3.0 hardware launch in just a few hours, along
with a potential surprise appearance of Steve Jobs, is keeping the
faithful buzzing in anticipation, already secure in the knowledge that
Mac OS X 10.6 and iPhone OS 3.0 will be properly unveiled unto the
world, while a new iPhone itself now (and not in a few weeks) is also expected!
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Monday, 08 June 2009 |
News of Best Buy’s Win 7 upgrade pricing leak, analysts suggesting a
$100 upgrade price for Win 7 Home Premium and Microsoft sometime soon
to confirm actual pricing lead us to wonder – what will Microsoft
charge for its shiny new OS?
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Friday, 05 June 2009 |
Can Russian “anti-monopoly” authorities stop Microsoft from further
slowing down the supply of Windows XP and replacing it with ever more
Vista (and soon, Windows 7) – despite continued XP demand?
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Friday, 05 June 2009 |
Palm’s highly anticipated Pre, touted as yet another potential iPhone
killer, launches in a couple of days in the busiest phone launch month
of the year, set to compete with a new iPhone, the Nokia N97, Google’s
HTC Magic and more – so is it any good?
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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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