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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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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
A new report from Pew Internet & American Life Project has some
disturbing statistics based on a survey of 4001 people on the state –
or otherwise – of the connected union.
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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
The legal stoushes are set to continue with NBC Universal deciding to
issue a ‘friend of the court’ brief in favor of Viacom and against
YouTube – should we now call it SueTube?
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Sunday, 06 May 2007 |
Watch out – the
bad guys have stepped up their Trojan creation nastiness by creating
Trojans that look like real Windows alerts which wouldn’t fool experts
but could easily catch novices.
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Sunday, 06 May 2007 |
Will anyone give YouTube and Google a break in the Web 2.0 world of
user-submitted content? If the latest lawsuit from the English Premier
League is anything to go by, the answer is clearly no.
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Saturday, 05 May 2007 |
Notebook manufacturers are claiming that the Vista Aero interface is
draining the battery life of portable notebook computers thanks to
using the CPU and GPU to deliver the translucent and transparent Aero
experience.
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Thursday, 03 May 2007 |
Steve Jobs has proclaimed that Apple is actually much greener (or soon
will be) than competitors who have received higher ‘green’ rankings
from companies such as Greenpeace.
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
Want the tough-guy of USB flash drives, one that is billed as the
‘Survivor’, seemingly fit to withstand just about anything you can
throw at it?
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
While the official announcement is still yet to come from Dell itself,
sources all over the Internet have claimed that Dell is about to start
officially offering Ubuntu Linux on selected Dell computers.
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Tuesday, 01 May 2007 |
The Consumer Electronics Association has released a study showing that
US adults are seemingly happy to whip out the credit card to own the
latest technologies, spending around $1200 per year on the goodness of
gadgetry.
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Tuesday, 01 May 2007 |
Copyright payment battles have seen a very recent ruling that could
force more than 90% of online radio stations to close down permanently
from May 15 thanks to an impending massive spike in royalty fees, but
one Congressman is leading the fight to save online radio.
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Saturday, 28 April 2007 |
The famed $100 ‘One Laptop per Child’ has a cost that keeps on rising
way beyond the $100 mark, with the new price set at $176, although
continued production might one day see the $100 laptop actually cost
$100.
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Wednesday, 25 April 2007 |
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Presidential contenders no longer have to simply contend with launching their campaigns online, now they can take part in two ‘online-only’ presidential debates that mark the first time presidential online debating has occurred.
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
Justin Steinman is Novell's Director of Marketing for Linux and Open Platform Solutions, spreading the SuSe Linux gospel and the benefits of the deal with Microsoft both at home in the US and abroad. On his current visit to Australia, I got the chance to ask him questions – some easy, some tough. Novell doubters and haters beware: Steinman says Novell has never had it so good, and it’s only getting better!
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Sunday, 22 April 2007 |
If you have a PC or Mac with one of those fiddly ExpressCard sockets, instead of the more standard PCMCIA (PC Card) socket, the good news is that more ExpressCard devices are finally starting to arrive, but wireless broadband pricing is still high.
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