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Sunday, 22 June 2008 |
Bill
Gates stops his “day to day” work at Microsoft on Friday June 27, to
focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and its work in health,
vaccines, education and more. But he remains Microsoft’s Chairman – and
its largest single shareholder – so he won’t be too far away if Steve
Ballmer wants to have a chat!
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
While there’s no local launch date for the Eee PC desktop edition as
yet, those lucky blighters in the UK are getting the first non-notebook
Eee PC in less than two months. It bodes well for a rest-of-the-world
launch long before the end of the year!
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
With the future of DVD clearly headed for the downloaded dustbin of
history, the EzyDVD online DVD store clearly hopes moving into movie
downloads will secure its long term profitability. Is success assured
or is the download business not that “Ezy” after all?
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
The Intel Atom powered Asus Eee PC 901 arrives before the month is out,
with price drops for the existing 900 and 701 models. But when will
Australia see the Eee 1000H model with real hard disk and larger
keyboard?
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
With headlines like “a glass act” and “full of hot air”, the journalist
reaction to the Apple store opening extravaganza has been curious to
see. But for anyone that has ever been into and shopped at an official
Apple store already knows – it’s a retail experience unlike any other.
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
Google’s second Australian “Developer Day” saw over 650 developers
making the trek to Sydney’s “Wharf8” venue for a jam-packed day-long
set of sessions for developers to devour. iTWire spoke to Tom Stocky,
Google's director of product management, to get the latest Google goss!
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
After having its attempt to force sellers and buyers to use PayPal
exclusively quashed by the Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission, eBay Australia is warning sellers not to include
alternative payments systems in their ads. Since the ACCC issued its
draft notice on June 13, eBay has been effectively in denial, acting as
if come July 15 its new PayPal only policy will come into effect.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
It’s not just an 8.1 megapixel camera phone with a real Xenon flash, it
also comes equipped with A-GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a 2GB memory card and
more. It’s Sony Ericsson’s best camera phone yet – but does it beat the
Nokia N96?
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
Social networking browser, Flock, has reached the 2.0 milestone in beta
status, bringing together all the major social networking sites in the
one browser. Offering all the enhancements of Firefox 3.0, you’ll only
be flocking to use this browser if you’re a big social networking user.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
Foxtel is finally making the plunge into the high-def world of HD TV
shows on June 22, boasting of 15,000 Foxtel subscribers already
upgrading to the Foxtel HD+ service and the Foxtel iQ2 set-top box.
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
We’re a long, long way from $50 Blu-ray drive prices and less than $1
per blank Blu-ray disc as we are in the world of CDs and DVDs, but an
important step towards those price points being a reality has occurred
as prices have fallen. Still, aren’t hard drives way cheaper to buy
than Blu-ray drives and discs?!
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
The announcement of a 160GB 1.8-inch hard drive isn’t new – the iPod
Classic 160GB has one. But what is new is a faster 5400RPM speed that
makes the drive much more suitable for notebooks and ‘mobile Internet
devices’, and it’s coming in August at a price likely to be much
cheaper than SSD.
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
Beating Firefox 3.0 to the opening night accolades is Opera 9.5, the
latest version of the free browser from the Norwegian browser company,
available for Windows, Macs and Linux PCs. Time for a standing ovation?
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
After a last minute RC3 for Mac users, the final version of Firefox 3
is set to launch on June 17, following almost three years of
development, with the latest version set to be a sure fire hit with the
web browsing world.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
Given the fact Australians, Asians and Europeans have had 3G for years,
the lack of a second front-facing video camera on the iPhone 3G is
weird. What’s weirder still is one of America’s top technology
journalists making one of the oddest comments I’ve ever heard.
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
Disaster protection and recovery takes on a whole new meaning with an internal hard drive that can survive full immersion in water and a raging fire, events that could severely damage normal hard drives and subject them to very expensive data recovery procedures - something that is included as standard with ioSafe drives if it's still needed. So how much do these drives cost?!
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
Despite the doubt some of my journalistic colleagues expressed over the
chance that Apple might decide to preview the next version of OS X,
dubbed “Snow Leopard”, at the WWDC, it has happened! OS X 10.5 Leopard
owners can rest easy, however: it won’t arrive for at least one year.
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
Mid last week, Microsoft released an update to its “instant search”
software for XP, Vista and other recent versions of Windows. What are
the claimed benefits?
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