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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
NPD figures show the PS3 achieving a remarkable feat: officially
outselling the Xbox 360 in the US for the first time ever in January
2008 – but still coming up 5000 short of outselling the Wii.
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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
Net-savvy Victorians denied the chance to watch Channel 9’s hit new
show thanks to a court order preventing its broadcast in the state have
rushed online to download it, with local police threatening to thunder
down upon copyright infringers like a ton of bricks.
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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
An online poll of 355 computer users by security firm Sophos shows that
93% believe Mac is set to become a big target for hackers and malware
writers, sending shivers up the spine of any Mac user that still
believes they’re invulnerable to the security threats that plague
Windows PCs.
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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
What is it with phone stores these days? The phone is the digital
device we all use the most, far more than we ever use our cars, yet
Telstra’s latest and greatest, the HTC Touch Dual 850, a phone that
costs hundreds of dollars, still isn’t available for customers to
actually TEST OUT before buying, with retail staff saying ‘we can’t
open the box’. Um... hello?
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
Now that NHK have reported Toshiba’s imminent announcement of HD DVD’s
death, Universal’s declaration earlier this year, in Australia, of ‘at
least’ 20 new titles during 2008, must look very shaky. How long now
before they too jump ship and go Blu?
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
Japanese news website Akihabara News is reporting that
Japanese TV network NHK has run a report saying HD DVD is ‘officially’
dead, although Toshiba are still yet to make their own official
announcement.
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
MacNN and Electronista have noted that at least one major North
American retail chain has run out of stocks of the 15-inch MacBook Pro,
something that either means they’ve been very popular lately, there’s
some delay in production that is causing lower stock levels – or
stocks are running down in preparation for a potential MacBook refresh.
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
Yes, HD DVD truly is the ‘Hopelessly Doomed Digital Video Disc’ now
with Wal-Mart’s decision to ditch the ailing Toshiba format and go
exclusively Blu-ray.
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
In the quest to have a product offering different from everyone else’s,
GPS maker Tom Tom have unveiled v2 of their ‘HOME’ software, letting
users ‘download, upload and share’ a wealth of free navigation content,
while also giving users (paid) new voices to guide them, including John
Cleese, the ‘Queen’, Ozzy Osbourne and many more.
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
Despite the release of a new version of Office for the Mac, the older
Office 2004 for Mac is hardly dead yet. Indeed, Microsoft is still set
to pump out security updates for some time to come, especially given
the fact there are plenty of older Macs out there which run Office 2004
far better than they’ll ever run the Intel-optimised Office 2008.
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
Warner, Best Buy and Netflix go Blu-ray exclusive; Blu-ray player and
disc sales still far outstrip HD DVD; those up to 50% price cuts had
little effect and US $2.7m ‘Superbowl’ ad campaign promoting HD DVD
players as great DVD upscalers seems to have flopped: all the world is
waiting for now is an official announcement that HD DVD is dead.
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
Following an almighty uproar from the tech savvy MSDN and TechNet
subscriber base over the fact they were going to have to wait just as
long as the general public before being able to get their hands on
Vista SP1, MSDN and TechNet users can finally download the long awaited
update code.
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
If you’ve ever wished you could drive your car underwater like James
Bond in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, Swiss company Rinspeed have launched
the sQuba, letting drivers do just that – but at a cost of US $1.5
million it’ll be a while before most consumers take to the water – in
their cars!
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
No, it’s not an x-rated sequel to Isaac Asimov’s classic “I, Robot”
series, but instead an article about David Levy’s new book, ‘Love and
Sex with Robots’.
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
Putting the PS3 in top spot by 2011, iSuppli says the Wii will be
number two , with the Xbox 360 in the third spot – but 4 years is a
long time in the videogame business and just because iSuppli predicts
it doesn’t mean it will come true.
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
When the Nokia’s N95 was released, I remember wondering how good a
future N96 would be. Well, we can wonder no more – it has arrived with
some very impressive specs, but you won’t be able to buy one until Q3
2008.
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
Although Apple already offers some DRM-free music through iTunes in the
UK, Play.com has joined the DRM-free rush before US based online
retailer Amazon has had a chance to blitz the UK market.
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
Telstra has won a court case to access so-called ‘secret documents’
which would potentially outline why Telstra lost a bid for AUD $600m in
Government funding to build a rural and regional broadband network.
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