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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
AMD’s new “GAME!” badge is an attempt to outdo Intel’s famous “Intel
Inside” sticker of the 90s, but this time appealing directly to gamers
who want a top-notch system without needing to know how to build one
themselves. Will consumers follow AMD’s GAME!plan?
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
The man who once was the president of OLPC, the initiative to provide
“one laptop per child” to some of the world’s poorest and digitally
divided children, has joined Sugar Labs. Why? To do what Nicholas
Negroponte won’t – providing open source opportunities for learning,
instead of being just another laptop seller.
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
While it’s not official, the long awaited high definition content
pricing for Australian pay television operator, Foxtel, has been leaked
– and should launch soon. Australia is far behind the US when it comes
to the provision of pay TV high definition television content, although
some HD programming has been available on free-to-air TV for some time.
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
“Australia”, the upcoming blockbuster-to-be from director Baz Luhrmann,
starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, is having its trailer released
on the Internet first by Australia’s largest ISP, BigPond – but when
will the same happen for movies themselves?
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
US telco Sprint is finally moving ahead with its WiMAX plans and will
have a WiMAX 4G network installed in Baltimore and Washington DC by the
end of 2008, after a year of endless testing - but two cities is far
from complete US coverage.
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
The full version of Firefox 3 is due in June, but Firefox 3 in beta
status is no more, having been issued as Release Candidate 1 for some
near final testing before the full version is unleashed onto a Firefox
loving web wide world!
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Saturday, 17 May 2008 |
The latest performance from browser company Opera comes in the form of
Opera Mini 4.1, replacing the drab inbuilt browsers of most mobile cell
phones with one that brings the desktop browsing experience to the
small screen – with flourish!
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
The trend towards building HSPA modems directly into laptops goes into
overdrive as Ericsson launches a new HSPA and GPS equipped notebook
module, with Dell the latest major international customer, after Lenovo earlier this year. Who needs
dongles and cards, when built-in is better?
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
Although nothing will replace real, heart thumping, strenuous exercise,
Nintendo have managed to make a “game” that actually makes fitness
activity fun, in what is the latest must-have addition to the Nintendo
Wii.
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
The BlackBerry Bold, along with a US $150m software development fund
(trumping the iPhone software fund by US $50m), is RIM’s attempt to
deflect some attention away from the upcoming 3G iPhone by focusing
squarely back on BlackBerry’s enterprise strengths, while highlighting
RIM’s ability to create snazzy looking devices of their own.
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
Andy Thomas, Australia’s very first man in space, has implored PM
Kevin Rudd to thrust Australia into the space race. Andy says it’s
vastly more affordable than before and Australia’s children should get
serious about science and technology. Is he right?
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
I’ve just been having a play with the new Asus Eee PC 900 series,
loaded up with Linux and 20 glorious gigabytes of space, that much
nicer screen, a rather nifty multi-touch trackpad and that same ol’
keyboard. But this time, I liked it much more!
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
If there was a way you could print money, wouldn’t you implement it?
That’s exactly what Samsung is doing with its new strategy to make
business printing – for SOHO, medium and large businesses – a major new
plank of its growth strategy, while challenging all the major printing
incumbents.
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008 |
Although speculation was rife that Steve Jobs would speak at Apple’s
WorldWide Developers Conference, the world waited for official
confirmation that His Jobsness would be there. He, and fellow
executives, will showcase Mac OS X Leopard, iPhone 2.0 and the SDK, but
there’s no mention – yet – of the 3G iPhone.
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
Not yet available but due in stores by the end of May, the new Asus Eee
PC 900 series is the most anticipated computer of the year, with more
storage, more memory and a bigger screen in both Windows XP and Linux
models. Clearly destined to be another major hit for Asus, the Eee PC
900 faces real competition this time in the new HP Mini-Note – will
both be winners?
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
The reports that Service Pack 3 for Windows XP is causing problems for
users are flooding in. Has Microsoft lost control of the software
writing process and compatibility with the widest range of hardware?
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
Payroll, retail and accounting software solutions provider, MYOB, has
entered the web hosting market with hosting and email packages after
the recent purchase of a web hosting business. While this is a good
move, it’s clearly still early days, with a hosted MYOB solution to
come “in time”.
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
No, Skype haven’t invented the world’s first “perpetual motion”
machine, but instead have recruited an Australian travel writer to
traverse the world through 15 countries without stopping – even when
sleeping! The aim? To show Skype can be used anywhere and on the move.
Will they succeed?
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