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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
Want to buy the car that only the super-rich of the 1910 and 1920s
could afford? It’s the Detroit Electric, a car that should have seen
the world choose electricity over petrol decades ago, but for the fact
oil and petrol became so cheap as to give electric cars a shock that
they’re only recovering from now.
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
Microsoft will, as usual, take plenty of time to get Vista’s successor
out the door, with confirmation that Windows 7 will launch in 2010. The
big question then, is when in 2010?
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Saturday, 15 March 2008 |
As a visitor to the Saturday qualifying round of the Melbourne F1 Grand
Prix (as a guest of Sensis), I’ve been mixing work with watching the
cars spin around the track, trying and failing to get my Next G
connection to work properly. Yet, I’m posting this story, with ‘old
technology’ coming to the rescue!
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Saturday, 15 March 2008 |
Sensis is defending its search capabilities after recent criticism,
following up from yesterday’s Sensis story which unveiled the
development of a Sensis iPhone search application, amid speculation
Telstra will launch the Australian iPhone.
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Saturday, 15 March 2008 |
SanDisk is lighting the fuse that it hopes will see sales of its new
mp3/video player, the Sansa Fuze, go off like a rocket. But even with
the usual set of additional features not available on any iPod, is the
Fuze the media player to use?
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
Stung by bad publicity over the lack of a whole swag of ‘Ultimate
Extras’ for users of Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft has launched a
beta version of the ‘UltimatePC.com’ site. Designed to extol the
benefits of the existing Ultimate Extras and offer ‘Ultimate Exclusive’
offers to Vista Ultimate users, the site is little more than an ad, and
for now, a waste of cyberspace.
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
Reports have emerged across the web of users transforming Windows
Server 2008 into ‘workstation’ mode, effectively using it for desktop
work instead of Windows Vista. Some reports suggest it’s much faster
than Vista, while others say it shouldn’t make any difference.
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
Reports that a third Apple store will be opened in Australia this year
come as Aussies keenly await the opening of the first official Apple
store in Sydney, with construction reported to be nearly complete.
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
Just like the BBC in the UK, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
(ABC) has launched a range of online channels. The first will let you
‘catch up’ on broadcast programs, the second has a range of
documentaries while the third will offer to sell you digital media –
but it’s all still in ‘beta’.
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
AVRRA, the Australian Video Rental Retailers Association, says online
movie downloads are a ‘tough sell’, referencing a Diffusion Group
survey of 1,975 US broadband users claiming that only 9.5% say they
regularly download movies. However, there is evidence to suggest that the results are skewed.
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
Microsoft would dearly love the Vista Capable lawsuit to just go away,
but once the wheels of justice start grinding, can any amount of grease
stop the squeaky wheel?
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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
Sony Ericsson has released the W890i Walkman phone, calling it ‘the
ultimate’ mobile music device – but I know of a better one, and I’m not
talking about the iPhone!
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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
Anti-virus and anti-malware makers ALWIL Software, well known for the
avast! line of software for consumers, business and enterprise, have
reported a treasure trove of 50 million users being protected by avast!
Antivirus.
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
Massive changes are afoot at Pioneer, affecting every facet of their
business, including plasma TVs, audio, car audio and in-car
entertainment and Blu-ray, as Pioneer continues working with Sharp
Corporation on the business alliance they formed last year.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
I was incredibly surprised and saddened to learn that the father of
Java, James Gosling, is firmly stuck in the 20th century, oddly
believing that the “over-the-air” (OTA) distribution of mobile
applications is somehow the wrong idea – and yet he uses an iPhone!
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
Kodak’s assault on the Australian (and world) inkjet printer market
continues with the local launch of their ‘Easyshare 5500’ all-in-one
model with features designed for small offices and home businesses,
although it comes several months after it launched in the US.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
Although we live in a 3G world, 2G phones are still around, especially
in the pre-paid market this phone is destined for. The T303’s slider
design, a mirrored screen and a bit of chrome polish make it more
stylish than your average cheap phone, but the rest of its features are
quite basic.
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
Microsoft clearly won’t let its Office suite turn into a web based app
anytime soon – why bother when Office sales generates tens of billions
of dollars each year? Still, Microsoft must do something to keep up
appearances, with its latest beta finally unveiled.
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