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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
It’s official: Halo 3 will launch on September 25, with the highly
anticipated Halo 3 beta having just gone online, but not everyone is
happy.
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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
Blending results from Google’s different search engines for the web,
news, maps, book, images, videos, blogs and more when you search
Google.com is not only a brilliant idea – it’s Google’s latest.
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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
If your new smartphone has a MicroSD HC slot, Samsung’s new 8Gb card
will be the one you want – when the price comes down. While few phones
sport a MicroSD HC slot today, plenty of tomorrow’s phones will, and
you’ll want the extra memory!
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Thursday, 17 May 2007 |
Although DRM-free tracks from EMI format are due on iTunes at any
moment, Apple won’t be the only store with DRM-free songs on sale as
Amazon prepares its own iTunes onslaught in mp3 format later this year.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |
After the incredible success of the RAZR
came a range of updates including different colours, the original 3G RAZR, the
new slim 3G RAZR, the KRZR and the RIZR – but the RAZR 2 is the true next-gen
update we’ve all been waiting for!
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |
In the week after Intel launched the Santa Rosa ‘next-gen’ Centrino platform, Apple’s latest MacBook updates seem designed to clear out existing stock before a true next-gen MacBook arrives possibly arrives alongside OS X 10.5 later this year - but Apple begs to differ.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |
100 days after the January 30 launch of Windows Vista, Bill Gates at
WinHEC reports that almost 40m copies of Vista have been sold while
work continues on Windows Server 2008 but bad Vista press continues.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |
In the week after Intel launched the Santa Rosa ‘next-gen’ Centrino
platform, Apple’s latest MacBook updates seem designed to clear out
existing stock before a true next-gen MacBook arrives possibly arrives
alongside OS X 10.5 later this year.
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007 |
Stung by the success of Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors in firmly
knocking AMD off the prized processor perch, AMD has been promising a
knockout blow of their own with ‘true’ quad core processors due later
this year.
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007 |
Not content with fighting a full-blown war on terror, the US Dept. of
Defense has decided to block 12 web sites which could distract
employees from their vastly more important work.
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007 |
So
far, ‘Fuzzy Logic’ (that’s me) has been using Vista Ultimate full-time
since RC1 – that’s well over 9 months and far, far longer than two
weeks. On the whole, we're glad we moved and we'd never go back to XP!
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Monday, 14 May 2007 |
The ‘old media’ owners of one of the web’s hottest new media properties, MySpace, say they’ve solved the problem of copyright content being reposted to a site once it has been taken down the first time. Will YouTube offer the same?
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Wednesday, 09 May 2007 |
Thailand's ICT Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom is reported to be ready
to file suit against Google and YouTube on Friday after reports that
Google 'rejected appeals' to remove clips critical of the Thai King.
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Wednesday, 09 May 2007 |
Although AOL lets you type in 16 characters for your password, an
online report and reader comments suggest that password is truncated to
6 or 8 characters in a blow to user security.
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Wednesday, 09 May 2007 |
A new Australian e-store aims to turn buying just about anything into a
charitable act, blending retail therapy with helping charitable
organisations.
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Wednesday, 09 May 2007 |
They’re also launching the HV20, a 1080 camcorder that uses HDV tape,
in the US and Australia, with the HR10 claimed to be the smallest HD
camera in the world as at Feb 2007.
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Wednesday, 09 May 2007 |
iTWire colleague Stan Beer, like
many people, has clearly had to suffer the pain of buying new ink
cartridges for a colour printer many times over the years, with one
undeniable truth: ink is expensive. But when it comes to quality print
outs, the quality of your ink matters!
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Wednesday, 09 May 2007 |
Given consumers’ cool reaction to the original Samsung Q1 ultra mobile
PC (UMPC), with short battery life, low resolution and no keyboard,
Samsung’s new Q1 Ultra seeks to fix the problems with a raft of new and
upgraded features – but is it any good?
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