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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
Why would you need an external webcam for Macs when they all come with
a built-in webcam? Because of better picture quality, a better lens,
better autofocus and VGA quality chat sessions that are four times
sharper than the standard experience – or so Logitech is promising!
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
Cuil, pronounced “cool”, is a brand new search engine claiming an index
of more than 120 billion pages, and founded by former Google employees
that were search engine stars to begin with. How cool is Cuil, and will
it survive a duel with the big G?
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
Vodafone is proactively slicing the price of international mobile
roaming charges, which consumer or business travellers overseas on the
Vodafone network will surely love, with a special deal for China during
August and the Olympics. It looks very impressive and I can’t seem to
find any hidden catches, despite trying!!
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
One of the big criticisms of Nintendo’s E3 announcement of the Wii
MotionPlus add-on for more accurate motion control is that it kept the
announcement to itself, leaving developers to learn about it through E3
– but it turns out that’s not quite the truth. An added storage option for
the Wii is also being worked on!
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Sunday, 27 July 2008 |
An Austrian government official has noted is it “no problem for them to
listen in on Skype conversations” according to a news report. Does this
mean Skype’s telephony services can be bugged by government officials,
despite Skype’s apparent denials this is possible or is occurring?
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
The cost of mobile data in Australia is all over the place – some
carriers sell it cheap, others sell it at sky high prices, and
effectively the same data transfers but on different devices from the
same companies can be charged at different rates. When will data
pricing ever get realistic?
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
In a previous article I looked at the new Optus ‘yes’ Timeless plans,
looked at the then “Optus Mobile Fair Go Policy” and deduced there were
timed limits, but Optus has now belatedly updated its Policy and says
there are no limits - for consumers. What has an Optus spokesperson
specifically told me?
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
A Google acquisition of Digg for at least US $200m is being rumoured,
but the big questions revolve around whether such an acquisition could
be the death of Digg, or a new era of Digg dominating the community
news voting sector.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
The rebellion against eBay’s PayPal saga with its disputed “stage 1”
and “stage 2” episodes with the ACCC, has seen the rebels write to
Australian Banks, Australia Post and threaten legal action. Now they’ve
turning it up another notch by writing to Reserve Bank of Australia!
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
Whether you’re using a shiny new iPhone 3G or other smartphone, the
ACCC has put out a warning to users not to be misled over the
“significant cost” of excess data usage charges. It’s a timely warning,
but you can be certain that horror stories of massive data charge bills
will inevitably surface anyway!
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
When is an unlimited plan NOT an unlimited plan? When it’s timed, has
limits and exclusions which are listed in the fine print for you to
discover, probably when it’s time to pay the bill. Should the use of
the words ‘unlimited’ and ‘timeless’ be banned when it comes to
telecommunications companies? NOTE: NEW STORY UPDATE FOLLOWS
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
With any Australian fibre-based broadband network still up to 5 years
away, the date of completion just got extended by at least 6 months as
the Australian Federal Government extends the time for “robust
proposals” to be submitted for consideration. As usual, the Federal
Opposition is outraged!
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
If you've been waiting for an Asus Eee PC with a larger screen, larger
storage and larger keyboard, the Eee PC 1000H could well be the model
you've been waiting for. How much will it cost, and what are the specs?
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
For all the talk of new wireless motion controllers from Sony and
Microsoft, the company that brought out a new motion controller was...
Nintendo! That aside, it looks like there were plenty of new games
launched, new online content, upgrades and a push towards more
co-operative gameplay.
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
If you were one of the many individuals or businesses affected by the
recent Optus cable snafu caused by a backhoe driver working for the
Gold Coast City Council, it’s time to think about a Plan B in case it
ever happens again. What can you do?
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
Woe is Yahoo and MSN search in Australia: Google has claimed an 87.81%
share of Australian searches according to web measurement company
Hitwise, and dominates the 44 other search engines Hitwise measures,
achieving top figures in the US and UK, too. What hope is there for
Google’s competitors?
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
Following on from a letter to Australian banks asking whether Direct
Deposit is a safe transaction method, an aggrieved group of eBay
sellers and buyers unhappy at eBay’s attempts to force and promote
PayPal to all users have a simple question for Australia Post: just how
safe is the decades-old money order?
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 |
In the market for a new notebook? Your timing couldn’t be better –
Centrino 2 is promising more performance, stutter-free HD playback,
better power conservation, faster wireless and more. But is the
performance increase real, or just clever marketing?
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