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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
The eco-friendly Ecocho website, promising to plant trees in return for
users searching through the Ecocho search front-end, has had to stop
using Google as the search results provider due to a violation of
Google’s AdSense policies. Instead, Ecocho has been forced to use the
far less popular Yahoo search technology, vastly diminishing its
potential popularity.
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
With the Australian CDMA network due to close by midnight on Monday the 28th of
April, concerns still swirl that the Next G network isn’t providing
adequate coverage for soon to be ex-CDMA customers. What should
affected users urgently do?
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
Arguably the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, Grisoft’s
AVG, has just been upgraded, set for free download from Friday, the
25th of April. We’re sure AVG’s servers are about to get hammered even
harder as millions of AVG 7.5 users take advantage of the new version!
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
Dell’s eponymous CEO, Michael Dell, has unveiled his smallest, ‘never
before seen’ eco-PC – which comes with a curvy bamboo casing. Is it a
Mac Mini competitor, a way to jump on the green bandwagon or the start
of a whole new successful line of environmentally friendly PCs?
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
Ubuntu fan ‘Madman2k’ has created a cool sticker that looks very
familiar – it takes the ‘Designed for Windows XP – Windows Vista
Capable’ sticker and transforms it into one that Ubuntu and FOSS
lovers... will love!
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
Since 1979, when Seagate was called Shugart and the first hard drive
stored a mere 5 megabytes, Seagate has shipped 1 billion hard drives
and says it’s the first company to do so. 116,000 Terabytes are shipped
each day – more than 1TB per second!
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
A test of Office 2007’s compatibility in outputting OOXML compliant
documents has shown that Microsoft’s latest Office suite generates
files with errors, failing the test. But is this really a surprise?
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
It’s ‘last call’ for the CDMA network, and Telstra wants to make sure
no-one can claim they didn’t hear that CDMA will close shortly. Besides
many calls, text messages and letters already sent to CDMA customers, a national
newspaper advertising blitz will start tomorrow.
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
As the clock ticks ever closer to CDMA’s April 28th close down date,
Telstra’s engineers stand ready and poised to co-ordinate a carefully
planned, multi-stage process that will see CDMA bite the dust across
our great Southern land.
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
I’ve seen water powered digital watches and calculators on sale at
markets – now Samsung is taking the technology a step further to
transform water into a power source that could – in 2010 - literally
juice up your future phone!
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
Last week, Fuji Xerox celebrated the 30th year of the laser printer
with several new models, including colour lasers, LED and Phaser ‘solid
ink’ printers. Although there are some consumer models, most are aimed
at business and enterprise, with new ‘green’ models aimed at separating
Fuji Xerox from the rest of the printing pack.
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
Looks like GPS satnav systems will keep on expanding their usefulness
to drivers, not only providing mapping, traffic information, red light
and speed camera alerts and accident black spots – but now altering
drivers to crime hotspots too... at least in Japan, thanks to Honda.
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
Aiming to impress, Nokia’s new mobile and PC Music Store has finally
opened its virtual doors, challenge the iTunes behemoth with three of
the four major labels, many smaller ones, some exclusives, and an
Aussie rock legend in the opening set.
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
On the cusp of Microsoft’s decision to demote Windows XP from a retail
product into one that is only available for ultra-low cost PCs, the
long-awaited Service Pack 3 (SP3) has finally gone RTM, with consumers
able to start manually downloading it from April 29. Will horror installation stories follow?
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
The cries to save Windows XP get ever louder, as Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer admits Windows Vista is a work-in-progress.
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
I’m part-way through testing Apple’s MacBook Air, and so far, it’s quite an incredible, svelte laptop that is easy to be seduced by, despite missing several things that notebook users are well accustomed to. So, what’s the verdict thus far?
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
Telstra is asking CDMA customers to hand in their old CDMA phones at
Telstra shops and dealers around Australia so they can be recycled for
valuable materials, rather than end up in landfill as an inconvenient
pollutant. But why recycle them at a Telstra store – when your local
school – and the environment – needs them more?
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Monday, 21 April 2008 |
The long awaited HTC shift, a 7-inch ultra-portable Windows Vista
Business computer, merged with a Windows Mobile style device, has
finally landed in Australia, but it isn’t cheap!
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