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by Paul Hosking
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
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by Charles Wright
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Wednesday, 19 December 2007 |
It's a tenuous peg for a prediction, we know, but ShiftAge is prepared to regard the fact that Sydney's Dymocks bookstore has sold out its first order of
the iLiad e-book reader as the first rumble in a tectonic (should that be techtonic?) shift in the marketplace - one that will make 2007, in retrospect,
the year of the electronic book.
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by Charles Wright
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
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Vodafone has abandoned plans to ditch its new cheap data plans on December 31, after a stunning response to the 5GB for $39 per month offer since it was rolled out as a year-end special on December 7. The company says the plans are responsible for a threefold increase in data connections.
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by Charles Wright
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
ShrinkAge has just come upon a question in an online forum that we realise marks a sort of Mason-Dixon Line between those of us who are TechnoPlods, and the digital nobility - what we call TechnoPeers. We just came across that question in the online forum devoted to the Asus Eee PC at eeeuser.com. The question is this: "What size soldering iron?"
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by Charles Wright
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
Australian retailers are wondering if they might have another Blackberry phenomenon on their hands, with the rapid sell-out of the first shipments of Asus’ diminutive $A499 Eee PC (pronounced simply “the E PC”).
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