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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Broadcast TV being turned off for online TV instead
A new BBC survey tells us that more users are finding something better to watch from the Internet instead of regular TV.
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Sick of spam? 9 out of 10 emails ARE spam!
There’s more spam than ever before flooding into our inboxes thanks to criminals who are sending out junk emails by the millions.
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Vista – the OS upgrade we had to have
Once you see Windows Vista in action, you’ll want it. It’s Microsoft’s best operating system yet, and it’s arriving tomorrow!
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No Toshiba standalone HD DVD players for Christmas
Toshiba have unfortunately delayed their first standalone HD DVD player in the Australian market. The HD-E1 model will now arrive in January 2007 instead.
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Aussie online games store lets you burn games to DVD
But there’s a catch! You can now buy games from a local online store and burn them to CD or DVD legally – but instead of being able to do it at home, the store has to do it for you, and send you the burnt disc in the mail.
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Chinese prefer fake tech to the real thing
It’s a really funny and strange world we live in. Chinese manufacturers are copying the circuit boards and designs of products from Japan and Korea, and they’re doing it so fast that by the time the originals arrive in the marketplace, they’re seen as the fakes.
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Xbox 360 has initial problems with TV, movie downloads
If you’re in the US, have an Xbox 360 and have tried downloading TV shows and movies from Microsoft’s Xbox Live video download service, you may have been experiencing problems. Extremely high numbers of downloads from the Xbox Live video download service over the past few of days has caused the slow download speeds and video download issues US customers have been experiencing, reports Microsoft, with a fix in the works and engineers working around the clock.
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Porn sites blocked by Canadian ISPs
Canadian Internet surfers using their major ISPs will soon be protected from porn sites and other unsavoury online content.
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30 products you can’t buy that were great
PC World magazine has an excellent article on 30 great products that we could all once buy, but are no longer on sale.
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Fancy a meal of not-so-yummy cottonseed?
The cotton industry has come up with a new reason to grow the very water hungry cotton plant: they’ve managed to remove the toxin from cottonseeds to make them edible. And this is progress?
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Apple might ring in the new year with 2 iPhones
The rumours are flying thick and fast that Apple is set to introduce two new iPhones at the US Macworld expo in early January, and it’s threatening to change the world of mobile phones and music as we know it.
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The perfect car for towing anything
Want a car that can tow anything? The Volkswagen Touareg sounds perfect, especially after it towed a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet. But what a pity we’re still only towing planes, instead of flying cars!
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FM Transmitters OK for use in UK from Dec. 8
Finally, the FM transmitter for iPods and other mp3 players goes legal in the UK from December 8 at last.
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Feel the need for speed with quantum computing
Quantum computers are finally getting some big breakthrough advancements that owning your own quantum computer do create and work on amazing projects sometime in your lifetime that will cause you to look at today’s most powerful machines and reminisce
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Xbox 360 gets TV and movie downloads at last
Should the TV networks be quaking in their boots? What about BitTorrent and p2p users?
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Pando lets you send big attachments through email
Sick of not being able to send big emails to friends, family and colleagues? Finally, a new web service lets you send email attachments of up to 1Gb in size. It’s simple and it’s free!
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New Palm Treo coming week before Christmas
Are you a fan of the Palm Treo? A great new model is about to land on Australian shores, and has just gone on sale in the US. It’s one of the best messaging mobiles we’ve seen and is a strong challenger to the Blackberry and competing devices.
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One laptop per child project starts
Remember this project? Created by Nicholas Negroponte from MIT Labs, and supported by the UN, some governments and companies such as News Corporation and Google, the first 10 laptops have rolled off the production line at a cost of about US $150 each, not the US $100 price point originally envisaged.
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Second Life ‘virtual world’ attacked
Grey goo has infected the virtual world, with golden rings visible that once touched, start replicating. Second Life had to be shut down and cleansed of the problem before users could get access again.
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Toshiba launches ‘Class 4′ 8Gb SDHC memory card
Got a new digital device such as a digital camera, mp3 player, laptop computer or other device that can take the new SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) memory card standard?
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