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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
An iTWire reader has sent through what appears to be further proof of
eBay flouting the ACCC’s wishes in a continued attempt to force PayPal on sellers who may not wish to use it.
Please read on.
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
Firefox 3 recorded more than 8 million downloads on “download day”, and
I can say I was responsible for one of those, as can 8 million others
worldwide. Still, it leaves me wondering how many will download IE 8
upon its release, and whether we should all just forget about IE and
Firefox and use Opera instead.
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Saturday, 05 July 2008 |
Just a day or so after Acer’s Aspire One goes on sale in Australia
comes news that the Asus Eee PC 904 will shortly go on sale in the UK,
muddying the waters over which is the best value ‘netbook’ to buy.
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
Confusion has arisen over comments made by eBay Australia CEO Simon
Smith suggesting that despite the withdrawal of eBay’s plans to force
all users to use PayPal, Smith believes the ACCC is allowing eBay to
force all sellers to offer PayPal as a payment option. What’s going on?
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
Hot on the heels of the Asus Eee PC comes more small subnotebooks, with
Acer giving them the Intel inspired name of the netbook. Does the Intel
Atom-powered Aspire One ‘netbook’ fill you with desire to acquire one?
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
Buzz!, the hugely popular interactive quiz show game for the PS2 is
finally coming to the PS3, featuring “brand new wireless buzzers”, 5000
question and a vast amount of downloadable and user-generated content.
Sounds cool!
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
eBay has suffered the ultimate embarrassment of being forced to cancel
its ridiculously anti-competitive plan to force buyers and sellers to
use PayPal only. But is eBay’s flip-flop enough to restore any
credibility? What about the problem of negative seller feedback? What
about PayPal’s extremely poor customer service? And will heads roll at
eBay Australia simply for being so incredibly stupid, or do we point
fingers at eBay HQ in the US?
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
If you could pay US $70 to get a one-year copy of Office Home and
Student Edition, and Internet security package OneCare, which you could
install on three PCs in the home – which needs to be renewed every year
– would you?
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
With the entry-level Xbox 360 now AUD $50 cheaper at $349 than the
Nintendo Wii, both the Wii and the PS3 are under heavy pre-E3 and
pre-Christmas pressure to do something special. Will they cut prices
too, launch an all-out software assault or pepper Microsoft with a
massive marketing campaign to win the hearts, minds and wallets of
consumers?
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
A news article in the Courier Mail looks like it’s promoting the
virtues of the Foxtel box over the Seven Network’s TiVo personal video
recorder, although with News Ltd a part owner of Foxtel perhaps this is
to be expected?
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
Want to know where your Telstra phone-owning family and friends are? A
new service called Whereis Everyone lets you track them if they’ve
given permission for tracking to occur, but you can only use it if
you’re on Telstra. How does it work, what does it cost, and what’s the
alternative?
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
With seven out of ten Australians choosing free-to-air TV over the
Foxtel $100 per month pay TV option, and with most major TV shows
millions watch still shown on free-to-air TV, the TiVo proposition with
no subscription fees could well be the gold medal winner in the PVR
stakes.
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
After media reports that Microsoft was considering giving the next
version of Windows the name “Windows Fiji”, the military government in
Fiji went totally ballistic and fired off a very nasty letter to Bill
Gates last week.
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
At 1.30pm today, a pre-decision conference by the ACCC will hear the
grievances of preregistered attendees unhappy at eBay’s plans to
enforce Paypal payments at its Australian auction site, as eBay hopes
for what would appear to be an unlikely reprieve.
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
It’s been a big year for Citrix. Now Citrix is upping the ante with a new version of
GoToMeeting 4.0 that should shake up the web meeting and phone
conferencing market thanks to new features and added VoIP.
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
eBay is praying that the ACCC will agree to its ridiculous request that
it be allowed to break Australian law in forcing buyers and sellers to
use PayPal. But as eBay users go away to other sites and don’t plan on
coming back on any other day, all this forced Paypal work and no fair
play makes eBay a dull auction site.
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
Although the very Safari and iPhone-esque Opera Mobile 9.5 browser is
being used today on the HTC Touch Diamond, users of Symbian and Windows
Mobile devices have been patiently waiting for what should be the
world’s best mobile browser for some time. It’s nearly here!
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Friday, 27 June 2008 |
ABC NewsRadio, Australia’s only 24 hour continuous news service, has
axed one of its longest running programs because it wants to divert
funding elsewhere. The program? StarStuff, the only space, science, astronomy and
cosmology show on Australian radio. What a shame!
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