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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
If you thought Canadian telco Rogers had bad pricing for the iPhone 3G,
they may have just been beaten by Australia’s dominant telco, Telstra.
Not only are the tiniest amounts of data included, the cost of
additional data is the same brand of "expensive" that Telstra already
charges.
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
iTWire has received more news from concerned eBay users about eBay’s
portrayal of PayPal as the “safest” way to transact on the auction
site, writing to their banks to see if they believe that Direct Deposit
is no longer a safe way to transact.
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
From unauthorised reviews to authorised ones, the iPhone 3G will come
tomorrow but the reviews have already arrived. For anyone that has been
following the iPhone and the iPhone 3G for some time now, you’ll learn
little that is truly new, but there are still some mini surprises.
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
With the Xbox 360 getting nice price cuts, and the Wii still
competitively priced, the pricey PS3 looms large as the most expensive
console with games and graphics that aren’t all that different from the
Xbox 360. E3 is the moment Sony should grab hold of with both hands to
slice the PS3’s price!
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
Telstra has announced which of its stores across Australia will carry
the iPhone 3G from July 11, from many capital cities to rural and
regional areas, but additional details on data inclusions like won’t
come until Friday itself.
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
Looks like the ACCC still has eBay well under its investigative sights
despite not officially saying anything since eBay withdrew its notice
to force buyers to use PayPal while claiming to have received ACCC
authorisation to continue compelling sellers to use PayPal whether they
want to or not!
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
More than 100 new words have been added to the “Merrian-Webster’s
Collegiate Dictionary” for 2008, and the list includes a few well known
tech terms, with one stretching back to 1919! In addition the word
“mondegreen” is added to the list.
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
It’s all systems go for the iPhone 3G on July 11 in 22 countries around
the world, with people already in line in the US, while Optus, Vodafone
and Telstra in Australia all have special iPhone events planned.
Meanwhile, does officially released – and surprisingly high - Vodafone
NZ pricing effectively show us what Vodafone plans on charging in
Australia?
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
Although said to arrive on Wednesday, for many the PS3 2.41 firmware
update became available on Tuesday, wiping out the frustration of
waiting for a pulled 2.40 update that had caused some users to
experience the pain of a “bricked” PS3.
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
Long known for making 1-inch, 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch hard drives, if not
larger too, Toshiba has finally decided it will sell its own drives to
the public instead of packaged inside someone else’s product. In
addition, it’s bundling automated backup software to make backup...
easy!
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
Pioneer has unveiled a 16-layer read-only optical disc, seemingly based
on Blu-ray technology, with each layer holding 25GB for a whopping
400GB total. Promising recordable discs to come, how soon before
today’s Blu-ray discs are tomorrow’s vinyl records?
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
Looks like Microsoft is willing to talk turkey about buying part of all
of Yahoo once more, but there’s a catch – Yahoo must elect a new board,
with Carl Icahn threatening to dump Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang should it
happen!
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
Huge numbers of UK citizens desperate to pre-order the iPhone 3G, due
July 11, have crashed O2’s site to crash soon after it opened at 8am UK
time. While it’s back now, a similar thing happened in Australia!
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
Realising the ACCC’s powers may no longer apply now that eBay has
withdrawn its notice to force PayPal onto buyers, and realising that
the eBay empire still wishes to force PayPal onto its seller citizens,
the rebels are marshalling their forces for battle! Is the force with
them?
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
Japanese electronics powerhouse Sharp is showcasing its “Zero Emission
House” with one of the highlights being a low power consumption
prototype 26-inch LCD TV. If desired, it can fully powered by a
similarly sized solar panel connected to a battery system that stores
the electricity generated by the sun, giving you power even if “off the
grid”. Cool!
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
All three major console makers are promising big announcements at E3 to
surprise us all, but in a shaky economic environment, will the gaming
industry’s golden age survive? A major forecast says yes – but is it
right?
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
An iTWire reader has sent through what appears to be further proof of
eBay flouting the ACCC’s wishes in a continued attempt to force PayPal on sellers who may not wish to use it.
Please read on.
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
Firefox 3 recorded more than 8 million downloads on “download day”, and
I can say I was responsible for one of those, as can 8 million others
worldwide. Still, it leaves me wondering how many will download IE 8
upon its release, and whether we should all just forget about IE and
Firefox and use Opera instead.
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