Fuzzy Logic
Giving identity thieves and hackers the big finger – protect yourself!
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.

 
Island of Niue children get US $188 OLPC laptops
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?

 
OMG – Telstra raises BigPond and Business wireless broadband download caps!
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.

 
Australia’s Reserve Bank makes major PayPal decision
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”.

 
Finally, ‘3’ Mobile to get 96% Aussie 3G coverage! - UPDATED
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?

 
Windows 7: Vista-like hell or an OS heaven?
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?

 
Telstra boldly launches the BlackBerry Bold... first
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!

 
“Sanity” launches music rental service in Australia – 17 months late!
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?

 
When will BigPond start selling DRM-free video, too?
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!

 
Wow, a Google Android phone by September 17?
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!

 
FINALLY: Movies come to iTunes in Australia and NZ!
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!

 
BigPond challenges iTunes with MP3 downloads!
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...

 
ASUS Eee Box gets unboxed in Australia at last!
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.

 
Google Street View: just do it?
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?

 
Intel in processor heaven with the new Core i7
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.

 
Chatswood Apple store: massive “door”, launch a bore?
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”.

 
September launch of new iPods and MacBooks?
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?

 
PwnageTool 2.0.2 with Installer 4 beta on verge of release
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.

 
Australia’s NBN and FttN – fibre to the nowhere?
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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