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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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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
As individuals fret over homes and private roads being seen on Google’s
Street View, is Google taking privacy requests seriously?
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
If you thought the successor to the Core 2 Duo might be something like
the Core 3 Trio, or just ye olde Core 3, the new naming convention
sounds a bit BMW instead: Core i7. Much speculation has ensued over
what i7 really means and whether it’s iApple inspired, but Intel has
promised all will become clear soon enough.
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
Apple’s second Australian store has finally opened on a much smaller
scale than the first flagship store in Sydney’s CBD. Instead of massive
crowds and jammed city streets, reports say the store’s opening was
much more subdued, despite the best attempts of Apple staff to “whoop
it up”.
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Sunday, 10 August 2008 |
Rumours of new iPods and MacBooks have swirled thanks to analyst Gene
Munster suggesting September’s the month for new models to emerge. The question is: evolution, or revolution?
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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 |
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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