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Saturday, 14 July 2007 |
If you’re outside and you’re in a thunderstorm (or one is brewing), turn off your iPod and remove the headphones from your ears – or you risk being zapped in the head!
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Friday, 13 July 2007 |
Dumbed down to the extreme, the first version of Microsoft OneCare, Microsoft’s own anti-virus, improved firewall and Internet security package, scored very poorly in public testing. Now version 2.0 has hit beta status.
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
Big businesses need business-grade comms and compliance security for
email, IM, web based activities and more, and with Google’s US $625m
purchase of Postini, Google can deliver it.
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
Although Vista’s first service pack was known to be coming this year,
the news is that the SP1 beta comes in the week of July 16, with the
final due in November – but unless you’re really having problems with
Vista, don’t install it!
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
The latest report from Pew Internet and American Life shows that
broadband usage is booming in the US with 70% of individuals who use
the Net at home on a high-speed Internet connection.
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
Steorn, the company behind the vaunted Orbo ‘free energy machine’, has
had to postpone their technical demo ‘until further notice’ as it’s
simply not working.
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Tuesday, 26 June 2007 |
64GB 2.5- and 1.8-inch SSDs (Solid State Drives) will soon become the
norm in ultra portable computers giving faster operation and longer
battery life thanks to manufacturers like Samsung, SanDisk and others –
are hard disks dead?
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
In the US, Apple now sits in fourth spot on the notebook sales ladder,
enjoying a 14% increase from last month, while the desktop market
awaits the rumored new iMacs.
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
Creative’s ZEN Stone launched a few months ago to worldwide acclaim as
a serious challenger to the Shuffle at half the price – now Creative
adds an OLED and calls is the Stone Plus.
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
Howard Stringer, Sony’s CEO, has answered the prayers of gamers and
shareholders with a promise to deliver 380 new PS3 games, most of which
will arrive before the end of the year.
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
The Veoh.com video sharing website offers the Veoh Player, able to play
video from sites like YouTube and many others, but it’s very shortly
about to be joined by VeohTV, which seems to do all the Veoh Player
does but lets you record video, too!
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
Not only has YouTube decided to launch 9 new local, country specific
sites, but is offering YouTube in 7 new languages, as Google reinforces
YouTube as the world’s best video sharing site, wherever you live.
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
Kerthump goes the axe on Microsoft’s former office suite flagship as
OEMs and System Builders find they’ll no longer be able to buy it come
June 30, as Microsoft swings behind the Office 2007 juggernaut.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Version 4
of the Opera Mini browser is now available, bringing ‘iPhone’ style web
page zooming to virtually any relatively modern Internet connected
phone while using a special proxy to slash page sizes when browsing
with your mobile.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Jetstar, the budget airline owned by Qantas, is currently suffering an outage at the most frustrating point possible – right when the consumer is pressing the ‘purchase’ button, making consumers suffer long waits on Jetstar’s 24 hour phone line.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Google’s ‘RechargeIT’ initiative transforms hybrid cars into mostly
electrically powered vehicles that barely use the fuel tank to double
the fuel economy of regular hybrids, pump energy back into the grid and
reduce emissions while providing US $10m to speed up progress.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Although PDF is the standard in the paper-free yet easily printable
delivery of information, Adobe has unveiled ‘Digital Editions 1.0’, an
improved and free e-reader that lets you easily ‘acquire, manage and
read’ digital books and documents on PCs and Macs.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
Apple is supposedly entering the in-car entertainment/mp3/GPS market
with presumably iPhone style technology, with Mercedes Benz rumored to
have struck a deal to be first to release the technology in 2009 with a
six month period of exclusivity.
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