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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
Although Intel spurned the inclusion of a Nokia 3.5G HSPA chipset in
future Centrino notebook platforms in favour of Wi-Fi and, in the
future, WiMAX wireless solutions, notebook vendors have been busily
adding 3G and 3.5G data modules anyway.
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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
The race to offer compelling new features to a mobile phones by
manufacturers and new services by the phone companies to attract and
keep customers is adding up to an explosion of new features and
technologies as standard, with GPS a new battleground.
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Sunday, 02 December 2007 |
If you’ve ever wished Skype could truly be mobile, on a dedicated
mobile Skype phone that worked just like Skype on your desktop, the 3
Skypephone has arrived to make your wishes come true!
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Sunday, 02 December 2007 |
As online criminals and hackers develop ever more sophisticated
Trojans, spyware, botnets and attack vectors, are the banks, online
stores, social networking sites and others really doing enough to keep
their customers safe and secure?
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Sunday, 02 December 2007 |
Nokia’s new v20 firmware for the feature laden N95 transforms it into a
new phone. The new features fulfill Nokia’s promise of a ‘multimedia computer’ for N95 owners –
on PCs and Macs!
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
Nintendo look set to repeat their end-of-year 2006 sales bonanza during
the crucial 2007 end-of-year shopping season as sales during
Thanksgiving go off the charts.
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
2G iPhones have spread around the world, much further and wider than
Apple officially intended, but if there’s one thing everyone iPhone
owner (and owner-to-be) wants, and that’s the faster web browsing only
3G and 3.5G networks can provide when you’re on-the-go. So, will a 3G
iPhone appear early next year?
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
A merger of high technology and design has produced a hand dryer that
dries hands hygienically in 10 seconds without heat, using
significantly less power and removing the need for expensive paper
towels.
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Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
Vodafone have launched a 5GB monthly plan for 3.5G mobile broadband
users in selected metropolitan areas of Australia at only $39 per
month, challenging all fixed and wireless competitors for the December
mobile broadband dollar.
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
Just days away from Microsoft’s first year anniversary of Vista
Business RTM on Nov 30, the last year has felt like Vista has been in a
perpetual beta, just like all those Web 2.0 sites. As SP1 draws near,
is the Vista blister finally healing, or should Microsoft scrap the lot
as some pundits have advised and go back to XP SP3?
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Monday, 26 November 2007 |
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Test results for Windows XP SP3 from Devil Mountain Software, Inc.,
have shown a surprising 10% performance boost compared with XP SP2, in
stark contrast to slow results for the release candidate of Vista SP1.
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Sunday, 25 November 2007 |
It used to be the PS3xpensive, but since the recent price drop
introducing at 40GB PS3 for US $399, sales have ‘more than doubled’, no
doubt putting quite a smile on Sony’s dial.
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Sunday, 25 November 2007 |
A new report from the Nemertes Research Group has studied the
Internet’s infrastructure and analyzed usage patterns to predict that
Internet usage by consumers and corporations could ‘outstrip network
capacity’ worldwide in just over two years, requiring massive financial
investment. Will the Internet survive?
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Sunday, 25 November 2007 |
The co-founder of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, has announced that his
forthcoming online, Flash and RIA-based Office clone will soon match
the power of Microsoft Office – and will be fast, free and easy. That’s
a big claim – can Bhatia take a chunk out of Microsoft’s multi-billion
dollar Office revenue?
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Friday, 23 November 2007 |
A new message has arrived saying “it’s time” to consider electoral
voting via SMS, thanks to mobile phones, SMS text messaging and voting
by SMS for TV show contestants an everyday reality for years now. Could
SMS be the solution to the e-voting conundrum?
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007 |
My unlocked iPhone had just turned into an iBrick and I was facing the
ultimate iPhone nightmare. Here's how the free iPhone unbrick trick helped
me - and can help you too!
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Friday, 16 November 2007 |
Microsoft has launched two new LifeCams for video conferencing – but as
there’s no compatibility with Skype’s new high quality video, and as
Windows Live Messenger doesn’t yet offer it, is it worth buying a
Microsoft LifeCam?
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Friday, 16 November 2007 |
If you’ve been itching to try Skype’s much improved ‘high quality’
video in conjunction with one of three 2 megapixel Logitech webcams,
Skype 3.6 has left beta and is now available for all Windows users.
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