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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
Smarthouse has struck back at Microsoft’s claims that they’re very
happy with the position of the Xbox 360 in Australia. This follows
Smarthouse claims a survey they conducted has retailers saying the Xbox
360 isn’t selling as well as the Wii or PS3, with one retailer going so
far as to say that ‘The Xbox 360 is dead’.
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
Got CDMA monitoring equipment and worried it won’t work with Next G?
Stop worrying – it won’t work, so Telstra has worked with the
University of New England, RMCam and Canon to bring vision and
telemetry services to you, but naturally it means buying new equipment.
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
Watch out ASUS – HP’s Mini-Note PC might be a bit more expensive, but
it’s squarely aimed at knocking the Eee PC off its perch as the most
desirable sub-notebook computer out there. It comes with Linux or
Windows, too – will the Mini-Note be the one for you?
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
An MTV report says that Microsoft is working on a motion controller to
match Nintendo Wii remote control, and the motion control in the PS3
Sixaxis controller. Supposedly due by year’s end, it would eliminate
the fact that the Xbox 360 is the only console without motion control.
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
As we all know, the Optus and Elders joint-venture called OPEL was
felled by the Federal Government, not only seeking to save almost $1b
but promote its own fibre network at the expense of next-gen WiMAX.
What a shame.
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
An online report is suggesting a ‘superfast’ Internet will allow movie
downloads in seconds, thanks to data collection capabilities needed for
the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator that some fear will
destroy the Earth.
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
Want to capture your reality TV show in high-definition, or simply have
an HD camera where no other HD camera can yet go? Toshiba says ‘here’s
looking at you in HD, kid’.
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
An interesting article has appeared on the Internet claiming the Xbox
360 is ‘on the skids’, quoting one retailer who says ‘The Xbox 360 is
dead’. Really?
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
Is it any surprise than an older operating system performs faster on an
identically configured system running the latest and greatest? No – I
remember Win 3.1 screaming on machines that ran Windows 95 more slowly,
but it’s still great news for XP holdouts.
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
You’ve got six movies, numerous books, a cartoon series, an upcoming TV
series, fan fiction and tons of games – so what next? A game that
unleashes ‘force’ powers only really hinted at in the movies, across
six games consoles, each delivering a unique experience.
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
I wish Microsoft would get their story straight on Windows 7, the
successor to ‘the wow starts now’ of Windows Vista. Why? Because the
company says 2010, while Bill Gates – still the official man at the
top, says it’s coming ‘in the next year or so’. Which is it?!
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
Yes, it’s mostly, sort-of true – Microsoft’s precious Vista source code is now in the
public domain... and while some would say it’s not quite what we were
expecting, others say it’s spot on!
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Friday, 28 March 2008 |
The electric vehicle (EV) project by Shai Agassi, now underway in
Israel, will see electric cars on sale from next year, matched by an
infrastructure of charging stations that will replace flat batteries
with charged ones. Now Denmark has signed up to the plan, aiming to
charge the batteries with wind power, with at least 30 more countries
wanting to get on the electric bandwagon.
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
Five AMD Phenom X4 ‘true’ quad-core processors have landed alongside
the new X3 range – forever banishing single and dual-core technology to
the bottom drawer?
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
Although triple-core processors aren’t new, they are in the x86 world,
with the launch of the AMD Phenom X3, coupled with the AMD 780G
chipset. Is it enough to shake Intel to the core, and what more is in
store from AMD?
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
Qantas has announced that it’s finally delivering SMS and email services to passengers on selected domestic Australian flights by the end of 2008. Alarmingly they have issued no prices (suggesting it will be expensive), while US airlines will introduce in-flight broadband this year – on the cheap!
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
HTC’s popular ‘Touch’ devices are now joined by the Touch Cruise, which
comes with an iPod-esque scroll wheel, built-in Wi-Fi,
built-in GPS and Co-Pilot Live 7 navigation software – but where’s the
slide-out keypad/keyboard?
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley is suggesting that Windows 7 will be a
modular operating system, with a central core that is the OS itself,
with other modules to be separately installable. Why isn't this a good thing,
and would it mean only ‘one’ version of Windows at retail?
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