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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Peaceful launch for Nintendo Wii in the US
The Nintendo Wii is launched in the US at last, with our own launch scheduled for December 7. All the next-generation of games consoles will be in Australia once the PS3 launches in March 2007, but the Wii will be hard to resist for purchase this Christmas!
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19,500 drivers on Vista DVD: 11,000 more online
Windows Vista comes with more drivers ready to go than any other version of Windows, and you can download plenty more from the Windows Update website as you need them. If you can’t find your driver CD, letting Windows Update do a search for you may actually prove useful at last.
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BMW Hydrogen car should be electric instead
Why are car manufacturers wasting time and energy with hydrogen powered cars when they should be putting their efforts into electic motors? With hydrogen taking more energy to produce than it delivers, why the ridiculous distraction from creating clean electric cars with hundreds fewer parts than combustion engines? Forget about a hydrogen car, you’ll never be driving one.
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Forget HDTV, the future is 3DTV
eGames Expo Melbourne Australia: I’ve seen the future, and it’s in 3D. This technology has threatened to sweep the world many times over the past few years. But new US technology, developed in Silicon Valley and exclusively launched worldwide at the eGames Expo in Melbourne prior to its global launch on January 1, 2007, blows all the misconceptions away and finally launches the true era of high-def 3D for movies, games, TV and more.
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Psst… want to see a new PS3 get smashed to pieces?
Crazy antics in the US: people smashing a PS3 into pieces with one heck of a big sledgehammer. Read on for details and a direct link to the video of all the smashing action!
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Are MySpace users pirates? Universal thinks so…
With millions of MySpace pages featuring commercial music tracks, Universal Music have decided that they’ve had enough. Licensing negotiations between Universal and MySpace have failed, and now the lawyers have been called in to sort out the mess.
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HD DVD add-on drive comes to Xbox 360
Want an HD DVD player without spending an absolute fortune on a standalone player? If you’ve got an Xbox 360, the HD DVD drive comes early next year to Australia.
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Amazing experience: I’ve played the PS3
Wondering what it’s like to play the PS3? It’s totally INSANE… this is definitely a next-gen games console that brings the fight to the Xbox 360 right down to the wire. Microsoft and Sony are set to FIGHT!
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5 reasons to hate the Vista haters
My colleague James Cornelius came up with 5 reasons to hate Windows Vista. Well, I’m a Vista user myself right now (still on RC1, no RTM goodness for me yet), so here’s my comic response to James’ Vista rant.
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Zune’s wireless feature just isn’t an original idea!
Microsoft wants us to believe that Zune’s wireless feature is innovative and original. But hey, any mobile phone with Bluetooth can do the same thing today and has been able to for years. C’mon, Microsoft, show us some REAL innovation!
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Want a PS3? Wait in line, like they are at US stores
Fancy waiting in line at a US story to be the first to get your hands on a PS3? No? Well the lines have already started with only hours to go before the PS3 launches and they’re already all sold out.
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Waiting for Halo 3 on Xbox 360? Keep on waiting
A rumour had spread on the Internet that Halo 3 was coming this week into stores, but the opposite has happened. A multiplayer beta is due in the US spring, with the full game to come sometime in 2007. Understandably, Halo loving fans are disappointed.
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US TV recording box ‘TiVo’ brings web video to TVs
In the US, a box called the TiVo lets you record TV shows direct to the TiVo’s hard drive, and select the shows you want from an EPG, or electronic program guide. Foxtel has one of these, and a TiVo like box, but otherwise the main TV stations in Australia still don’t support a public EPG. Is that why there are no TiVo’s in Australia?
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Japan gets 400,000 Wii’s after the US, world to follow
While Nintendo promises the largest number of launch Wii’s will end up in the Americas, exact numbers aren’t available. Still, 400,000 will be on sale in Japan on December 2, with the US getting them two weeks earlier this Sunday on Nobember 19.
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Microsoft mistakenly claimed Gmail contained virus
In a bit of an oopsie daisie, Microsoft’s OneCare anti-virus and Internet Security service claimed that Google’s Gmail contained a virus. It’s yet another false positive by protective software – will we ever be rid of the false positive syndrome?
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Don’t rely on Firefox 2 or IE7 for phishing protection
The latest browsers from Microsoft and Mozilla, IE7 and Firefox 2.0, promise to protect you from phishing sites trying to steal your data. But a new report shows just how hopeless and unreliable both browsers are at this task. Psst… we’ve found a product that does the job much, much better – and it’s free!
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Oops! PS3 can’t play all PS2 games titles
Sony said the PS3 was compatible with PS2 games, but it seems some are having audio problems, while others aren’t playing at all. But is this really a big deal to PS3 owners keen to get their hands on next-gen gaming, and who still own a PS2 after all?
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The world’s fastest DVD burner is here, but who cares?
Sure, you can burn a DVD at 20x speeds now, mere seconds faster than with the three month old 18x DVD burner. Still, fast burns can mean discs that could end up as coffee coasters, so while this advance is nice, it’s hardly earth-shattering.
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An Xbox 360 game with better graphics than PS3 version?
Should Sony be concerned that an Xbox 360 game has graphics that look better and more detailed than its newer version for the PS3?
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The alternative browser for PCs, mobiles and more: Opera
Remember the Opera browser? Now in version 9 for PCs, it’s free and has advanced features you won’t find in Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. It also works with a range of devices and not just PCs, meaning that ‘a night at the Opera’ can now be a 24×7 browsing experience!
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