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Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
Vodafone have launched a 5GB monthly plan for 3.5G mobile broadband
users in selected metropolitan areas of Australia at only $39 per
month, challenging all fixed and wireless competitors for the December
mobile broadband dollar.
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
Just days away from Microsoft’s first year anniversary of Vista
Business RTM on Nov 30, the last year has felt like Vista has been in a
perpetual beta, just like all those Web 2.0 sites. As SP1 draws near,
is the Vista blister finally healing, or should Microsoft scrap the lot
as some pundits have advised and go back to XP SP3?
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Monday, 26 November 2007 |
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Test results for Windows XP SP3 from Devil Mountain Software, Inc.,
have shown a surprising 10% performance boost compared with XP SP2, in
stark contrast to slow results for the release candidate of Vista SP1.
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Sunday, 25 November 2007 |
It used to be the PS3xpensive, but since the recent price drop
introducing at 40GB PS3 for US $399, sales have ‘more than doubled’, no
doubt putting quite a smile on Sony’s dial.
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Sunday, 25 November 2007 |
A new report from the Nemertes Research Group has studied the
Internet’s infrastructure and analyzed usage patterns to predict that
Internet usage by consumers and corporations could ‘outstrip network
capacity’ worldwide in just over two years, requiring massive financial
investment. Will the Internet survive?
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Sunday, 25 November 2007 |
The co-founder of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, has announced that his
forthcoming online, Flash and RIA-based Office clone will soon match
the power of Microsoft Office – and will be fast, free and easy. That’s
a big claim – can Bhatia take a chunk out of Microsoft’s multi-billion
dollar Office revenue?
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Friday, 23 November 2007 |
A new message has arrived saying “it’s time” to consider electoral
voting via SMS, thanks to mobile phones, SMS text messaging and voting
by SMS for TV show contestants an everyday reality for years now. Could
SMS be the solution to the e-voting conundrum?
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Friday, 16 November 2007 |
Microsoft has launched two new LifeCams for video conferencing – but as
there’s no compatibility with Skype’s new high quality video, and as
Windows Live Messenger doesn’t yet offer it, is it worth buying a
Microsoft LifeCam?
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Friday, 16 November 2007 |
If you’ve been itching to try Skype’s much improved ‘high quality’
video in conjunction with one of three 2 megapixel Logitech webcams,
Skype 3.6 has left beta and is now available for all Windows users.
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
With mobile cell phone etiquette at an all time low, as users talk
loudly into their phones wherever they are, the temptation to illegally
import and use a cell phone jammer has proven overwhelming for some in
the US that just want to stop use of cell phones in their area.
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
If you’ve ever wished you could turn on your PC and start using
applications instantly, BIOS firmware company Phoenix has a new
solution that’s designed to speed up PC start up times tremendously –
but you’ll still have to wait at least 30 seconds for Windows to boot –
so what’s so special about Phoenix Hyperspace?
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Saturday, 03 November 2007 |
Hackers and malware creators are clearly taking a greater degree of
interest in the ever growing community of Mac owners with the discovery
of the OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan masquerading as a video plug-in at some porn
sites, diverting some of their attention away from the Windows world to
try their hand at hacking the Mac.
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Saturday, 03 November 2007 |
Western Digital have announced the world’s largest capacity ‘Scorpio’
2.5-inch hard drive, a 3Gbit/sec SATA drive that stores 320GB on two
platters, giving mobile users more storage capacity than ever, while
Toshiba also makes some hard disk announcements.
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Saturday, 03 November 2007 |
Consumers ready to make the leap into high definition video through HD
DVD or Bu-ray are finding cheaper prices much easier to swallow – while
still not definitively ending the high-def format war.
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Thursday, 01 November 2007 |
5.00am Exclusive: It’s a big day for Telstra, with a number of
announcements to come from CEO Sol Trujillo along with a number of new
Next G compatible handsets, including two certified for rural and
regional use, new Foxtel Mobile capabilities, a new mobile payments
system, a new interactive retail space for consumers and an interactive
solutions centre for business customers.
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Thursday, 01 November 2007 |
Indian software giant Polaris has opened their newest specialist
software testing lab in Sydney, Australia, in conjunction with the NSW
Government, giving their customers in the banking, financial services,
insurance, manufacturing and services worlds access to a 24/7 global
testing capability, massively improving software reliability.
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007 |
Yes, Skype’s new “HQ” Video does need decent broadband and one of three
high quality, Carl Zeiss lens equipped webcams, but it’s the first real
boost in video quality consumers have seen in years.
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007 |
Creating a mobile phone charger that runs on AA batteries is an easy
thing to do, and with more digital devices and power hungry phones out
there than ever, major battery manufacturer Energizer has finally
decided to enter the market with a nifty new device called ‘Energi To
Go’.
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