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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
May 30’s the day the Aussie Nintendo Channel comes your way, with tons
of videos to play, give Wii games you’ve played the recommendation yay
or nay and more, so Nintendo say, and it’s free to download with nothing to pay!
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
Previously confined only to Japan, a consumer Blu-ray recorder able to
record free-to-air 1080p digital HDTV broadcasts will finally land on
Australian shores in June thanks to Panasonic. And wouldn’t you know
it? It’s coming just in time for the Olympics!
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008 |
Yes, that’s right – Microsoft has said a lot about the upcoming Windows
7 while masterfully revealing little, spilling not many but barely more
than a single bean of info. Is it the perfect start to a glorious new
era of “promise and deliver” or just more of the same-ol’, same-ol’?
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
Forget about 64GB or 128GB solid state 2.5-inch hard drive
replacements, Samsung has finally managed to make 256GB SSDs a reality,
with only one “problem”. How much will they cost?!
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
Hot on the heels of its competitors in the hard disk space, Samsung has
launched its EcoGreen F1 range of hard drives with massive power
savings, fewer parts and a nice price.
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
Plagued by previous Mars failures and exploding space shuttles, the
successful landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander today has gone a long way
to restoring some much needed faith in the world’s foremost space
exploration organisation: NASA.
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
Apple’s first Australian store on the corner of King and George Sts in
Sydney hasn’t yet opened, but there’s movement at the station
indicating Apple’s iconic retail store will open soon. Will authorised
Apple retailers be set into a crunchy spin?
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
The Asus Eee PC in subnotebook format has been the hit portable
computer of the year, with the recent 900 series upgrade only
brightening the Asus star. Now word comes that an Eee desktop – with
the same Linux OS – will be launched at Computex and on sale later this
year.
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
The latest rumour says a Mac Tablet is due in September or October this
year. Due to run OS X, inexplicably equipped with a slot loading
Superdrive and an Intel Atom chip, will it be a Mac Tablet or a large iPhone?
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
For the last four years, Microsoft has been doing a “show and tell” at
its “Research Labs” facility, a part of Microsoft that helps turn
“ideas into reality”. Open not only to students and venture
capitalists, a stack of Microsoft competitors including Google showed
up at the Road Show event, which by all accounts was tremendously useful to all.
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
Google’s notorious secrecy over its ever evolving search algorithms are
legendary for keeping competitors in the dark over Google’s success,
and for keeping webmasters guessing on how to get the best ranking. Now
the kimono is being opened just a little so we can all have a peek –
while Google acknowledges much is still kept strictly secret. What can
we see?
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
Don’t want the ‘soap-on-a-rope’ 3.5G mobile broadband USB modem dongle
dangling from the back of your laptop or desktop PC? Three releases a
new one that looks like a USB memory stick – but if it doesn’t fit
properly you might need a short USB extension cable anyway. So much for
wire free!
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
An Australian archaeologist says Indiana Jones may well be freaking out
real archaeologists with his rule-breaking antics but is still a
fabulous drawcard for new students into the literally time honoured profession.
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Saturday, 24 May 2008 |
Forrester Research has put out a US $279 report that few will buy, as
it has been dissected across the web and its “important” predictions
are now well known. Will Apple actually do any of the things Forrester
has specula- er, predicted?
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Saturday, 24 May 2008 |
Telstra’s $0 upfront laptop has generated much debate over whether the
deal is a good one or not, but anything that locks you into a
multi-year contract with technology that gets rapidly out of date is
usually best avoided.
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
Australian Federal Opposition Communications Spokesperson Bruce Billson
says a letter from the Auditor-General shows that Federal
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has breached his own “broadband
tender requirements”.
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
Based on the high popular Spb “Mobile Shell”, Spb Software House has
showcased a new “Online Shell” at Australia’s CeBIT tech conference. It
brings a range of online multimedia entertainment and information
services using the Mobile Shell interface, which itself brought a very
iPhone-esque experience to drab Windows Mobile devices.
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
Microsoft is planning on releasing SP2 in 2009, with support to save
documents in ODF format as standard, in the name of ‘interoperability’,
while adding PDF and XPS save/export compatibility without requiring
any add-on software. The EU’s Commission has ‘taken note’ and welcomed
the decision, while promising to investigate it further. What does this
mean?
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