Technologies that enhance personal and global mobility http://www.itwire.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:09:32 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21835&Itemid=1144 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:46:21 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15846&Itemid=1144 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. Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:25:55 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15814&Itemid=1144 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. Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:21:08 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15675&Itemid=1144 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? Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:09:08 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15630&Itemid=1144 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”). Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:04:23 -0600