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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
A report from the Financial Times says that three European cell phone
network companies have been chosen for the iPhone’s initial European
launch, with the announcement set to be confirmed at the IFA consumer
electronics trade fair in Berlin at the end of the month.
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
MTV has lost the URGE to keep playing with Microsoft, joining Real
Networks instead to offer music through a subscription download service
called Rhapsody America, for PCs and mp3 players, with Verizon
customers able to download music to their cell phones – but is it
anywhere near enough to defeat iTunes?
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
Do you feel the need, the need for… space? It’s the final frontier,
after all, and we can never get enough of it, but this kind of space
can be easily manufactured, with Toshiba the first to reach a 320GB
capacity.
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
Arriving in inboxes around the world now are the latest email phishing
attacks, socially engineered once again to appear legitimate to try and
capture users, experienced or not, off guard – how do you protect
yourself?
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 |
A New York Times article uncovers Cloudprint from HP Labs, a new way to
print and share a document through your mobile phone and virtually any
printer worldwide which sounds kinda great, until you wonder why not
just use a USB memory stick or email the document to your web mail?
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Monday, 20 August 2007 |
Not content with dual or quad core technology, Tilera’s newly available TILE64 Processor, equipped with 64-cores and a mesh-like interconnect that eliminates bottlenecks, seeks to usurp the processor performance crown.
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
Got a Nokia N95 and wish it got a GPS lock much faster? Nokia’s 6110
already does it, and the N95 can do it too, with a satellite lock
promised in less than one minute!
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
A new Internet phone company called Ooma, backed by former execs of big
tech firms and even Punk’d star Ashton Kutchner on board, promises to
change the phone market forever, but will they?
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
NAND flash memory, used in mp3 players including the iPod nano and the
iPhone, is suffering from heavy Apple demand and lower yields as
manufacturers move to new technology, making life difficult and more
expensive for anyone that isn’t Apple.
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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
Wi-Fi is becoming a standard feature of today’s smartphones, with RIM
joining the Wi-Fi fray through the new BlackBerry 8820, their thinnest
smartphone yet.
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
Norton AntiBot, from Symantec, promises to protect you from bots and
remove ones that are already on your computer, along with other malware
– how soon before competitors do the same and the bad guys try to find
ways around it?
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
The iPhone is flooding wireless access points at the US Duke University
with MAC address requests, resulting in a denial of service-like attack
that is taking out 20 to 30 access points for 10 to 15 minutes at a
time – weird!
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
Small businesses wanting to give customers the ability to quickly and accurately search their website can now turn to Google’s ‘Custom Search Business Edition’ to make it possible at an affordable yearly cost.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007 |
It’s official: Windows Home Server has gone RTM and will be on sale well in time for the end-of-year buying season, giving PC users good reasons to buy and install yet another copy of Windows in their home.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007 |
‘Extreme’-ly fast mobile processors from Intel have just been launched,
giving notebook users desktop speeds, giving hardcore gamers the best mobile experience and
granting talented digital media artists maximum on-the-move power.
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Sunday, 15 July 2007 |
The mix and match of mashing up third party info on top of Google’s maps is now an official feature of Google Maps – and Google’s calling these mini-apps “Mapplets”.
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Saturday, 14 July 2007 |
If you’re outside and you’re in a thunderstorm (or one is brewing), turn off your iPod and remove the headphones from your ears – or you risk being zapped in the head!
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Friday, 13 July 2007 |
Dumbed down to the extreme, the first version of Microsoft OneCare, Microsoft’s own anti-virus, improved firewall and Internet security package, scored very poorly in public testing. Now version 2.0 has hit beta status.
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