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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
The predicted action by Telstra’s competitors seeking wholesale access
to their ADSL2+ infrastructure has begun in earnest, with Internode and
nine other ISPs filling a nine page letter with Australia’s Competition
and Consumer Commission.
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
Yet another competitor to the iPod has emerged from Creative called the
MuVO T200 with a range of features to tempt you away from Apple’s
offerings – but are they enough?
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
While movies have long been able to be sold under an R rating
classification should they have deserved it, games that would have
gained such a classification have either had to be toned down, or not
sold thanks to being banned – but this could soon change.
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
Has the fallout already begun from Microsoft’s serious snafu of
releasing Vista SP1 early to users of 64-bit Vista? We’ve just received
a report that shows two new problems we haven’t heard of before, as we
unofficially rename SP1 to ‘Snafu Pack 1’.
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Sunday, 24 February 2008 |
Malware threats aren’t using the scattergun approach any longer, with
criminals targeting users in their own languages in ever increasingly
sophisticated attempts to become more successful at ripping us all
off.
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Sunday, 24 February 2008 |
With Firefox 3 nearly ready for primetime, and as Netscape is formally
no more, Mozilla celebrates over half a billion Firefox downloads with
a program to donate free rice to the poor.
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Sunday, 24 February 2008 |
In a move that is of no surprise to anyone, Microsoft has finally
decided it will no longer manufacture the HD DVD add-on drive for the
Xbox 360, although they will naturally continue to support customers
who purchased the drive.
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Sunday, 24 February 2008 |
An article at APC magazine shows you how virtually anyone, anywhere
around the world, can bypass the iTunes and licensing limitations that
mean only US citizens get the best content, and get it first – but why
do we put up with this?
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 |
Users of the 64-bit version of Vista may have noticed something strange
over the last couple of days – a notification that Vista SP1 has
downloaded to their computers and is ready for installation, despite
availability still set for March 18. Has Microsoft gone mad?
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
A new Australian chip small enough to be embedded into home and office
equipment promises wireless audio and video transfer at up to 5
gigabits per second, ten times faster than today’s solutions at only
one-tenth the cost!
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
What’s going on at the world’s second most popular search engine,
Yahoo? First they delist the Pirate Bay, but then they put it back. Did
Jack Sparrow call them and have a chat?
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
Telstra’s striking success in growing profit, raising ‘ARPU’ numbers,
gaining more mobile customers and low churn in ‘key product areas’ has
caught the attention of international analysts and no doubt competitors
across the globe wishing to emulate Telstra’s success.
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
First, it was a 5 year delay for Vista minus plenty of features,
drivers and software compatibility. A year later, Vista SP1 ‘launches’,
but few can get it yet. Then two SP1 pre-updates launch, only to have
many reports of endless rebooting. What more can Microsoft do to
convince people to try a Mac – or Linux?
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
Now that HD DVD is dead, Microsoft’s HDi interactivity layer also loses
to BD-J, the Java interactivity format used on Blu-ray discs. An Ovum
analyst thinks this is a big deal, but is it?
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
Telstra BigPond’s continuing forays into the world of broadcast
television have just become even bolder with the launch of the “BigPond
Sports Weekend”, further cementing the Internet and mobile phones as
strong content alternatives to free-to-air and pay TV.
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
Although it may be common knowledge for some, the question of who pays
for a faulty copper phone line was raised in the comments section of
our previous story on Gotalk’s new Naked ADSL service, so we contacted
Telstra and have an official answer.
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
Amazon has announced it will support ‘Blu-ray as the digital format of
choice for customers’, promising ‘Earth’s Largest Selection’ – while
promising to continue selling HD DVD products and the ‘broadest
selection of HD DVD titles’.
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
Yahoo appears to have removed links to the Pirate Bay from their index,
in what could be part of the most recent action against ‘the world’s
largest bittorrent tracker’.
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