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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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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
Whether Google is leading with a new idea, or seemingly late to the game, with a Wikipedia-like ‘Knol’ project to build a database of knowledge, Google’s plans have everyone talking and wondering how big the Knol edge will be.
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
The beta of Hyper-V, Microsoft’s hypervisor-based virtualisation
technology, has come early in what Microsoft calls a ‘holiday
surprise’, although VMware says they’re five years late.
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
The lawsuit-happy RIAA still thinks that consumers who rip music from
their own, legally purchased CDs, are 'stealing', in a surprise that
actually isn't a surprise at all.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 |
Ever since LG and Samsung started talking about dual format Blu-ray/HD
DVD players, some thought the next-gen format war would soon be over,
but while LG’s newest dual format player is certainly an improvement,
it’s still slow – and far too expensive.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 |
AskEraser, a feature that allows users to tell Ask.com not to retain
their search history with the Ask engine, has finally launched, putting
privacy at centre stage in an attempt to gain market share against
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 |
Although dual touch technology allowing the use of a stylus or a
fingertip on a Tablet PC screen has been available for several years in
selected models of competing brands, Dell’s first ever Tablet PC and
Toshiba’s latest model improve dual touch screen technologies and take
them truly mainstream.
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
An alleged extortion attempt in Australia using unsecured wireless
networks, a PDA and threatening emails in the name of someone else has resulted in the arrest of a man. The incident serves as a timely reminder to
ensure the wireless networks in your life – whether yours, those of
friend and family, or at your workplace – are appropriately secured and
not open for anyone to use and abuse.
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
After reportedly sending a series of text messages and letters to CDMA
customers advising them to switch to Next G or face losing their number
on the Jan 28 CDMA cut off date, Telstra is now advising that customer
numbers will be kept for at least 30 days.
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
HP has launched a new marketing campaign called “What do you have to
say?”, making shades of Microsoft’s “Where do you want to go today?”
ad campaign bounce around my brain.
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Saturday, 08 December 2007 |
More than just a store where the objective is to get you to the checkout counter and out the door, Apple’s newest store is more like a learning and training centre that actively teaches users how to get the most out of their Apple products with multiple free class sessions on every day, alongside amazing opening hours – and more.
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Saturday, 08 December 2007 |
Boeing’s Connexion in-flight broadband service was so good people were
even able to use Skype for voice calls, but as the service was too
expensive to operate it was shut down in mid 2006. Now, a form of
in-flight Internet is coming back to US skies in December 07, with real
web access finally coming to more US airlines in 2008.
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
It’s all over the news – the Federal Court says Telstra’s ‘everywhere
you need it’ ads were misleading after the ACCC complained – but if
we’re going to waste all this time and money bashing Telstra, let’s
bash them over their pricing, not their advertising.
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
Microsoft might be ‘softening’ Vista SP1’s WGA anti-piracy procedures
but they’re actually very similar to what’s been happening with XP for
some time now, stopping most casual copying of retail discs and
enabling detection of activation exploits used with pirate copies, in what is
Microsoft’s most successful attempt at reducing casual piracy of the OS
at the consumer level yet.
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
Australia’s largest telecommunications company, Telstra, has released a
report on the top five ways Australians are accidentally damaging their
mobile phones, in what must be putting a smile on the dial of phone
manufacturers who end up selling more phones.
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
It’s nearly Macworld time again, with the IDG World Expo group
confirming that Steve Jobs will once again be keynoting the event – how
will he wow the world this time?
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