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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
Due in high-end AV store shelves from September 2008, in the US at
least, the Laser TV has finally been officially unveiled at CES, and by
all accounts it has delivered the stunning improvements in rich colour
that use of the laser promises over existing plasma and LCD technology.
What does this mean for the plasma and LCD TV display industry?
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
A report on the state of Australia’s regional telecommunications has
finally arrived in Federal Government hands to help it decide by
January 21 whether or not it will authorise closure of the CDMA network
as Telstra has planned.
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
The launch of an early alpha version of the Wikia search engine has
impressed few pundits with poor results and missing features, despite
Wikia founder Jimmy Wales imploring all not to expect Google-killing
results from day one. Will Wikia Search one day become wickedly good?
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
Bill Gates has given his 11th and last CES keynote as Microsoft
head-honcho, looking at the future, touch and talk interfaces, the
Beijing Olympics, Zune, new TV shows and movies for Xbox Live, Xbox 360
sales and IPTV - but the rumoured Xbox 360 Ultimate didn’t make an
appearance.
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
Can HD DVD withstand the stunning news that Warner has ditched the
format and has decided to issue movies from May 2008 on Blu-ray only?
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
Newly elected and thus hungry to be seen to be doing ‘something’ about
‘child pornography’ being accessible on Australian Internet
connections, the new Rudd Government is cooking up a so-called ‘clean
feed’ of Internet that’s actually a foul-tasting brew of censorship
stew.
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
With only 25 days to go before the CDMA network is closed and CDMA
phones stop working, Telstra says it’s confident in Next G’s coverage
and is urging customers to switch before the inevitable rush on CDMA’s
D-Day: January 28, 2008.
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
With days to go until the annual CES tech show in Las Vegas, the
Blu-ray and HD DVD format war shows little sign of abating – with cheap
upscaling DVD players their true short-term opponent.
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
With Macworld less than two weeks away, only those with an unstoppable
urgent need for new Apple gear will be 'brave' enough to buy anything
Apple before Steve Jobs permanently changes the Apple landscape yet
again.
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Wednesday, 19 December 2007 |
Although notebook computers are all about portability, the ultra-mobile
segment of the market is the most mobile of all. Some
ultra-mobile computers resort to using ultra-low voltage parts, but Dell’s
Vostro 1200 gets us to ultra-mobility without being ultra-slow.
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Wednesday, 19 December 2007 |
Analyst firm Gartner has released its latest forecast of SMS text
messaging volumes and revenues, showing us all just how much money
there is in SMS, while advising operators to prepare for “much reduced
margins on messaging services”.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
Billed as the first ‘Silicon Valley’ telephone company, Ribbit wants to
revolutionise the telephony industry, opening up telecommunications in
a way that traditional telcos have resisted for decades, while also
challenging the likes of Skype.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
Telstra has announced 2 million customers have signed up to the Next G
service, with 250,000 new connections a month, while dropping browsing
charges on when looking at the BigPond Mobile Home and Today tabs on
Next G mobile phones, but still charging for regular web access.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
Australian authorities in Sydney and Melbourne have been involved in
separate operations to uncover acts of music and movie piracy, showing
Australia is no safe-haven for digital pirates.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
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Palm Treo 750 owners on the Telstra Next G network finally get the
chance to upgrade to the Windows Mobile 6 OS from today, months after
the WM6 update for customers of the Treo on other carriers.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
Optus has announced cable speeds of up to 20Mbps download and 512kbps upload, but only for certain customers, while deciding to copy Telstra by counting uploads towards the download limit.
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
A report has emerged suggesting the Xbox 360’s inbuilt wireless system
for communication with wireless controllers and headsets is
transmitting over a wide area of the 2.4Ghz spectrum, causing
interference to WLAN’s and other 2.4Ghz devices.
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
An iPod shaped 'fish tank' with built-in speaker is creating waves,
causing worries among animal activists over how humane it actually is
for a fish to live in the iPond, while technologists wonder if it could
possibly sound any good, or not.
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