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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
The iPhone looks like it won’t support Flash but will still allow users
to watch YouTube video clips thanks to a dedicated viewer that supports
the newly H.264 encoded YouTube video format.
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
Howard Stringer, Sony’s CEO, has answered the prayers of gamers and
shareholders with a promise to deliver 380 new PS3 games, most of which
will arrive before the end of the year.
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
The Veoh.com video sharing website offers the Veoh Player, able to play
video from sites like YouTube and many others, but it’s very shortly
about to be joined by VeohTV, which seems to do all the Veoh Player
does but lets you record video, too!
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
Not only has YouTube decided to launch 9 new local, country specific
sites, but is offering YouTube in 7 new languages, as Google reinforces
YouTube as the world’s best video sharing site, wherever you live.
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
Kerthump goes the axe on Microsoft’s former office suite flagship as
OEMs and System Builders find they’ll no longer be able to buy it come
June 30, as Microsoft swings behind the Office 2007 juggernaut.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Version 4
of the Opera Mini browser is now available, bringing ‘iPhone’ style web
page zooming to virtually any relatively modern Internet connected
phone while using a special proxy to slash page sizes when browsing
with your mobile.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Jetstar, the budget airline owned by Qantas, is currently suffering an outage at the most frustrating point possible – right when the consumer is pressing the ‘purchase’ button, making consumers suffer long waits on Jetstar’s 24 hour phone line.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Google’s ‘RechargeIT’ initiative transforms hybrid cars into mostly
electrically powered vehicles that barely use the fuel tank to double
the fuel economy of regular hybrids, pump energy back into the grid and
reduce emissions while providing US $10m to speed up progress.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Although PDF is the standard in the paper-free yet easily printable
delivery of information, Adobe has unveiled ‘Digital Editions 1.0’, an
improved and free e-reader that lets you easily ‘acquire, manage and
read’ digital books and documents on PCs and Macs.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Apple is supposedly entering the in-car entertainment/mp3/GPS market
with presumably iPhone style technology, with Mercedes Benz rumored to
have struck a deal to be first to release the technology in 2009 with a
six month period of exclusivity.
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
Rumors that Ubuntu and Red Hat were about to do a dance with the
‘devil’ have proven untrue, to the relief of Linux lovers.
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
Apple’s move to offer an improved, glass, scratch-resistant screen and
3 hours more talk time for a total of 8 hours is an impressive set of
improvements aimed at dousing concerns the iPhone’s battery life would
send sales as flat as a dead battery.
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
Has Blockbuster become the HD DVD-buster by deciding to stock only
Blu-ray titles in their 1700 corporate-owned stores, leaving HD DVD
titles only in the initial 250 store test, adding only more HD DVD
titles see higher consumer demand?
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
If you wanted the iPhone to be upgraded before you bought one, Steve
Jobs has managed this feat too, opting for a glass screen and extending
talk time to 8 hours (from 5), and specifying battery life for web
access, standby time, audio playback and video.
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
The
Federal Government’s launch of ‘Australia Connected’ is meant to ensure
’99.9%’ of Australians get access to at least 12Mb broadband speeds one
way or the other by June 30, 2009.
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
Numerous reports of bugs within the beta of Apple’s latest browser,
Safari 3, in both the Mac and Windows versions, make it good to play
around with but not to use as your everyday browser.
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
Steve Jobs’ keynote at the WWDC has come and gone, with a few Leopard
spots uncovered and Safari for Windows released – but will the iPhone
snatch victory – or defeat – from the jaws of the marketplace?
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
In the latest threat to physical video rental stores, speculation is
rife online that Apple will soon introduce 30-day movie rentals to the
iTunes store, but movie studios don’t seem thrilled just yet.
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