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Saturday, 22 September 2007 |
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The Electric Car is back in the news thanks to a report on GM’s Volt Hybrid, highlighting the urgent need for a true mass market electric car that safely enhances lithium-ion battery technology while dealing with the distractions that are hydrogen and ethanol fuel alternatives. |
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Saturday, 22 September 2007 |
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Despite emphasising a renewed emphasis on PS3 games at the Tokyo Games
Show keynote, Sony wants us all to remember that the PS3 is “a great
Blu-ray player as well” and will advertise the feature in addition to
the gaming lineup.
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Saturday, 22 September 2007 |
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Halo 3 is genuinely one of the biggest entertainment events of all
time, set to once again rival blockbuster Hollywood movies for ‘opening
weekend’ revenue at the highest levels, showing just how successful
Microsoft has become with the Xbox 360.
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
Nokia’s 6301 is a traditional tri-band GSM candy bar phone that can
seamlessly transfer your calls when in range of a connectable Wi-Fi
network, offering the prospect of cheaper calls and a promise of better
indoor coverage.
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 |
 Back in 1982, presumably on a green screen terminal, Prof. Scott E Fahlman
was the first in the PC era to re-introduce us all to the smiley, with
plenty of variations since then. Now 25 years old, a new Smiley Award
has been created for CMU students in its honour, mixed in with a little
controversy over the smiley's true age.
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 |
 Back in 1982, presumably on a green screen terminal, Prof. Scott E Fahlman
was the first in the PC era to re-introduce us all to the smiley, with
plenty of variations since then. Now 25 years old, a new Smiley Award
has been created for CMU students in its honour, mixed in with a little
controversy over the smiley's true age.
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Thursday, 20 September 2007 |
Playing games is what the Playstation has been about since inception,
despite the additional desire to transform the PS3 into the ultimate
home entertainment machine for video, audio, gaming, computing,
interacting and even creating content – but without games first and
foremost, the rest follows much more slowly, if at all.
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Wednesday, 19 September 2007 |
Around since the 1960s, virtualization has finally gone mainstream,
with businesses and consumers are taking advantage of the power of
today’s computers and servers to run more than one operating system, if
not many, with all the associated software – at the same time, saving
big money on operating costs and electricity.
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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
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An unlocked iPhone is a joy to behold, filled with third party apps –
something the hackers haven’t yet achieved with the newly released iPod
Touch, despite a promising moment that soon saw hopes dashed, while yet
another iPod teething problem has reared its ugly head.
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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
When AOL suddenly changed the longstanding and traditional Netscape.com
portal into a clone of Digg, users were up in arms – some loved it,
some hated it. Now Netscape is poised to spin off the Digg-style
interface into Propeller.com, as Netscape.com prepares to transform
back into a regular portal.
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
Palm’s attempt at reinvigorating their business through the addition of
a ultra-portable laptop-like device that linked to the Palm Treo and
other smartphones received such a bashing in the press that Palm has
decided to shelve the Foleo – for now.
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
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Not long before new iPods were announced, Microsoft made an announcement of its own, dropping 30GB Zune pricing by $50, in a desperate attempt to get Zune sales zooming – but who’d want a Zune when they could buy an iPod instead?
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
Wow, this time the pundits were mostly right, showing Apple’s ability to keep secrets is slipping – the iPod nano comes with video, the iPod gets all touchy-feely like the iPhone and gets Wi-Fi, there’s a new ‘Classic iPod’ too while iTunes goes wireless!
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
Oops... Microsoft’s attempt at getting the ‘Office Open XML’ format
ratified as a standard has hit a hurdle, prompting Microsoft to hope
that its rejected standard scrapes through in the next vote during
February 2008.
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
This Wednesday, US time, the beat of Steve Jobs will go on, with a
launch that’s expected to unveil iPhone-like iPods, a video capable
iPod nano, the possibility of a wireless iTunes store and the chance
the Beatles collection will come to iTunes for the first time.
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
Although Nintendo’s wily Wii is still winning the hearts and minds of
Japanese consumers, outselling the PS3 by 3-to-1, the PS3 is slowly
catching up and Xbox 360 sales trickle through – with Christmas
crunchtime sales still to come.
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
MTV has lost the URGE to keep playing with Microsoft, joining Real
Networks instead to offer music through a subscription download service
called Rhapsody America, for PCs and mp3 players, with Verizon
customers able to download music to their cell phones – but is it
anywhere near enough to defeat iTunes?
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
Do you feel the need, the need for… space? It’s the final frontier,
after all, and we can never get enough of it, but this kind of space
can be easily manufactured, with Toshiba the first to reach a 320GB
capacity.
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