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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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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
As the prices of Blu-ray and HD DVD players keep dropping, along with
high-def flat panel TVs, consumers buying a next-gen player are having
to make a choice, not knowing which format will ultimately win, buoyed
only perhaps by the fact their new player should also upscale regular
DVDs. Will 2008 be the year the high-def madness ends?
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
Microsoft’s new WGA anti-piracy mode in the upcoming Vista SP1 lets
users continue using their newly detected non-genuine copies of Vista,
albeit with Aero disabled and hourly reminders, in a major backflip.
Will pirates give in and pay for a legal copy of Vista Home Premium at
less than half price, or consider moving to Linux or Mac OS X instead?
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
Yahoo!7 have announced the annuals rankings of the most popular
Australian searches of 2007 were celebrities, scandals, wild weather
and home ownership, with Britney Spears topping three of the lists and
Apple’s iPod Nano topping the tech section.
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
Combining a write speed of 16x for DVD±Rs, 6x for BD-R Blu-ray discs
and 3x read speed for HD DVD discs, LG says its combo drive is the
world’s fastest.
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
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Although combination car radios exist with CD and DVD players, iPod connectivity, TV tuners, GPS and an interface to the car’s own on-board computer and electronics, the Gizmosis Infill G4 is the first true Windows XP in-dash computer, with full PC and Internet capabilities, at a price.
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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
Although Intel spurned the inclusion of a Nokia 3.5G HSPA chipset in
future Centrino notebook platforms in favour of Wi-Fi and, in the
future, WiMAX wireless solutions, notebook vendors have been busily
adding 3G and 3.5G data modules anyway.
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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
The race to offer compelling new features to a mobile phones by
manufacturers and new services by the phone companies to attract and
keep customers is adding up to an explosion of new features and
technologies as standard, with GPS a new battleground.
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Sunday, 02 December 2007 |
If you’ve ever wished Skype could truly be mobile, on a dedicated
mobile Skype phone that worked just like Skype on your desktop, the 3
Skypephone has arrived to make your wishes come true!
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Sunday, 02 December 2007 |
As online criminals and hackers develop ever more sophisticated
Trojans, spyware, botnets and attack vectors, are the banks, online
stores, social networking sites and others really doing enough to keep
their customers safe and secure?
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
Nintendo look set to repeat their end-of-year 2006 sales bonanza during
the crucial 2007 end-of-year shopping season as sales during
Thanksgiving go off the charts.
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
A merger of high technology and design has produced a hand dryer that
dries hands hygienically in 10 seconds without heat, using
significantly less power and removing the need for expensive paper
towels.
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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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