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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
Ever since Warner ditched HD DVD, forcing Toshiba to massively drop
prices on their HD DVD players, it was only a matter of time before
Microsoft’s HD DVD add-on drive for the Xbox 360 would also have to
dramatically fall in price. Finally... it has happened.
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
Looks like AOL in the US have the rights to their Australian domain
name back after selling the dial-up and broadband business to iPrimus,
launching a new portal to capture Australian eyeballs and fight against
Ninemsn, Yahoo7 and everyone else.
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
Analyst firm Canalys crunches smartphone shipment numbers with Nokia in
top spot, RIM (Blackberry) in number two, while new entrant Apple
zoomed up to the No.3 spot barely six months after releasing the
iPhone, strongly threatening to end 2008 as the firm No.2.
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
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Telstra has finally ‘done a deal’ with the new Federal Government to
switch on ADSL 2+ in over 900 telephone exchanges across Australia,
giving more Australians access to high speed broadband than ever before
– without the regulatory threats Telstra has so dearly wanted to avoid.
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
Online transaction security software, TrustDefender, has launched a
beta version designed for Windows Vista, while launching a new ‘Kernel
Forensics Engine’ in the current XP version to help users detect,
protect and secure all online transactions – and provide exclusive
protection against the nasty ‘Silentbanker Trojan’ and MBR Virus.
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
With Vista SP1 available for download by consumers in March, and the
release of Windows Server 2008 on March 1, with both having gone to RTM
today, two major milestones for 2008 are complete, but there’s still
plenty left on Microsoft’s plate.
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
A Malaysian tech news website has seemingly scooped the world with
precise details of the final release of Windows Vista SP1. Update: Vista SP1 has gone to RTM, along with Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
Telstra is providing $2 million over three years in a series of grants
to help organisations teach ‘cyber safety’ to parents and children to
‘reduce bullying of harassment of children using the Internet and
mobile phones across Australia’ – but is it enough?
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
If you thought HD DVD meant ‘high def dead video disc’ and that Blu-ray
had won the war, Universal Australia’s announcement of at least 20 new
titles in 2008 is certainly comforting to local HD DVD player owners –
but is it enough to stem the tide of consumer support for Blu-ray?
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
HTC’s iPhone-esque ‘Touch’ has been upgraded to include a slide-out
keypad and a 3.5G HSDPA chip running on Telstra’s 850Mhz Next G
network. HTC’s first Touch didn’t really touch me at all, especially in the midst of iPhone mania, so just how
touching is HTC’s new version?
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
Qtrax, the supposedly ‘legal’ p2p music download service, is still
enjoying its 15 minutes of fame as the first beta version becomes
available for download at last, but while it’s easy to download, once
you’re in, you quickly discover that despite promises of 25 million
free tracks, Qtrax is still NoTrax for now.
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
When Qtrax announced at Cannes 2008 that it had secured the backing of
the world’s major music labels, allowing users to ‘legally’ download
virtually any song from a catalogue of 25 million sourced from p2p
networks, there was a big problem: it doesn’t appear to be true, and
the software still can’t be downloaded.
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
When Qtrax announced at Cannes 2008 that it had secured the backing of
the world’s major music labels, allowing users to ‘legally’ download
virtually any song from a catalogue of 25 million sourced from p2p
networks, there was a big problem: it doesn’t appear to be true, and
the software still can’t be downloaded.
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
Watch out iPhone – a mobile phone with a ‘roll up’ 5-inch screen is
coming to market in mid 2008, promising high readability, easily
pocketable mobility, cellphone capability and wireless connectivity.
But without a colour screen, keypad buttons, video playback or access
to a full web browser, can Readius truly rock?
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
Windows Vista has been, without a doubt, Microsoft’s most controversial
operating system ever. Plagued by issues including performance,
incompatible software, missing hardware drivers and more, Vista has
thankfully seen much improvement throughout 2007 – but it is enough to
finally accelerate Vista demand?
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
Toshiba Australia’s huge 50% price drop on three HD DVD players with a
stack of free movies either signals the clear out stock at relatively
cheap prices, or a price-led effort to revive HD DVD’s fortunes – which
is it?
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
The trend for technology to go thin has been with us for some time – I still have an old Sony portable CD player somewhere that’s barely bigger than a CD inside its plastic jewel case – and everybody’s seen the Motorola RAZR. The 30GB 5G iPod, the Nano and then the iPod Touch also propelled thin tech further, and now it culminates in the MacBook Air.
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
Apple have sold 7 million movies since their introduction on iTunes
back in September 2006, outselling high-def movie sales on Blu-ray or
HD DVD – with more competition still from the Xbox 360’s movie download
service, Amazon’s Unbox and others – but downloading hasn’t won the
race just yet.
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