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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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Monday, 11 February 2008 |
The ASUS Eee PC comes pre-loaded with Xandros Linux, an operating
system far less susceptible to viruses, spyware, malware and the other
nasties that are almost of biblical proportions in the Windows world.
So, even though ASUS makes a Windows XP driver disc to allow the easy
installation of XP, and is due to start selling the Eee with XP
pre-loaded, is XP worth the worry?
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Sunday, 10 February 2008 |
Although the Polaroid company still wants to be in business for the
next 30 to 40 years, instant Polaroid cameras have already ceased
production, factories that make Polaroid film are shutting down and
existing stocks of film aren’t expected to be available beyond 2009.
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Sunday, 10 February 2008 |
Although Vista SP1 has gone RTM, there’s still confusion over whether
the final SP1 code truly speeds things up like copying – or not.
Is Vista SP1 just Vista’s twisted ugly sister, or a beautiful
Cinderella awaiting the glass slipper?
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
As predicted, pirate copies of Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 are
already available from Bittorrent websites, weeks before consumers can
get them legally, showing once again just how efficient hackers and
decentralised networks really are at providing and distributing illegal
stuff.
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
Every now and then there’s some good Telstra news that doesn’t involve
ADSL2+, the ACCC or fibre networks, with BigPond launching a site for anyone to follow the bid by the first-ever mother and daughter team to
conquer Mount Everest.
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
Now that Telstra has finally decided to switch on ADSL2+ inside over
900 telephone exchanges around Australia, Telstra’s competitors are
asking for wholesale access to the network – despite Telstra yesterday
claiming the Government was not going to let this happen.
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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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