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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Mission Impossible III gets record sales on HD discs
Sales of Blu-ray and HD DVD versions of Tom Cruise’s latest hit, Mission Impossible: III, have broken all previous records, while DVD sales are very, very healthy too. And this is all despite Tom Cruise’s crazy antics, his very personal love life and troubles with movie studios. Have moviegoers forgiven him? Maybe not at the box office, but on DVD and next-gen discs, he’s doing fine.
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Final version of Vista already available on pirate sites!
Internet pirates don’t waste any time, if the latest Vista news is any indication. The final ‘gold’ release of Vista has already been spotten on pirate sites across the web. But it’s fools gold, with the risks of pirate software, especially an operating system, far too dangerous to contemplate.
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Vista chief changes tune: use anti-virus in Vista!
If you thought Jim Allchin meant you could run Vista without anti-virus, he now says we misunderstood him and he should have been clearer. His clear advice is to always use anti-virus and security software, no matter what computer you use.
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PS3 launches in Japan at last – the next-gen war starts!
It’s been a long time coming, but Sony’s Playstation 3 is finally here. Well, in Japan at least – it launches in the US on November 17, and in Europe and Australia in March 2007. But in its home country, Japan, the PS3 looks to wipe out the Xbox 360 into the dust in a display of shock and awe only the US Military was thought capable of. Can the Xbox survive in Japan?
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MacBooks get Core 2 Duo, Mac Mini next?
The MacBook has received an update to Intel’s Core 2 Duo chip at last, closing the performance gap that existed only until the last few days. Now all’s that left is for the Mac Mini to be updated, and Apple’s stunning transformation to Intel’s latest will be complete.
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Microsoft’s Zune challenges the iPod
The Zune is Microsoft’s great hope to defeat the dominance of the Apple iPod, and it’s coming to US stores on Tuesday the 14th. The question on some people’s lips is whether Apple will spoil the party and launch a widescreen wireless iPod on Monday…
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Hear Vista’s new soundscape
With every new version of Windows, we’ve come to expect a range of new sounds. The beta versions of Vista just used the existing Windows XP sounds, but Windows Vista is set to aurally excite us thanks to the hard work of Robert Fripp, and the lead of the Vista sound project, Steve Ball. So how does it sound?
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Is Windows Vista virus proof?
Microsoft Windows Chief Jim Allchin let his seven year old son run Vista without any anti-virus software and claimed he suffered no infections. The news has spread across the globe, with some thinking Allchin is crazy. But I’ve run XP without anti-virus for months earlier this year, and I didn’t get infected. Why did I do it, and why no infections?
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Yahoo copies Google and will offer IM+web mail soon
Gmail’s massive 2.7Gb of email storage space, plus the integration with Gtalk, their IM software, has proved enormously popular on the Web. But even so, Yahoo Mail still has 10 times the users that Gmail enjoys. So why are Yahoo copying Google?
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Google accidentally sends out virus
In another rare misstep, Google has unknowingly copied Apple in the worst way possible – by accidentally sending out a virus to some of its users. It’s yet another sign that we all need to be ultra vigilant about security – if not even the great Google is immune, who is?
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Australia breaks through 1.5Mbps barrier with ADSL 2+
EXCLUSIVE: Bringing Australia into the 21st cyber century at last, Australia’s dominant telco Telstra has unveiled high speed broadband for more than 2,400 ADSL-enabled exchanges, reaching 91% of Australians. But in surprising news, “regulatory constraints” mean most will be stuck on the slower ADSL 2 standard, not the faster ADSL 2+.
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Skype releases stunning new beta 3.0
Skype, not content with crushing the rest of the telco and VoIP world with their massive mindshare and user base, have improved their software yet again and have just released their latest version 3.0 beta. What’s new in the Skype zoo?
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Kodak to conquer cameraphone photo printing market?
With 1 in 7 pictures taken on a cameraphone being printed at last, especially as cameraphones reach 2 megapixels and beyond, Kodak wants to capture the lion’s share of this lucrative market. Will a new Kodak photo printer being exclusively sold through cellphone stores propel them to even greater cameraphone photo printing success?
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Americans spend up big on flat-screen TVs
Who wouldn’t want a shiny new flat screen TV to adorn their wall or take the prime spot in the living room? As LCD and plasma prices fall, more Americans than ever before are going flat. With their TVs, that is. How soon will you join them, if you haven’t already?
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It’s Official: Office 2007 goes gold, Vista next!
Mcrosoft’s long awaited follow up to their most successful software besides Windows finally goes RTM. It’s only been three years since the last version, but oh so much is different – both within Office and the suddenly hyper competitive marketplace. Can Office survive the latest threats to its dominance?
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Watch out PS3 – Xbox 360 does movie downloads
The all-out war in the next-generation gaming space is finally heating up big time, with the aim of dominating the living room and home entertainment the jewel in the crown that everyone desires. Is it enough to fend off the Blu-ray threat of the PS3?
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German Wikipedia hacked and infected
The German version of Wikipedia has been hacked to spread malware to unsuspecting users. Will the sneaky ‘social engineering’ attacks of the hackers ever end?
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Online vendor announces new MacBooks
Just a couple of weeks after the MacBook Pro was upgraded with Intel’s Core 2 Duo chip, an online vendor is offering a 13.3-inch Core 2 Duo MacBook for pre-sale, upstaging any Apple announcement. Is it for real, just a misprint or a malicious trick?
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The Web grows to over 100 million sites
Remember when Google boasted of over 8 billion pages in its index, and then the tit-fot-tat skirmishes with Yahoo on whose index was biggest? Now a figure on the number of sites online has been released, and it’s in the millions, not billions. What gives?
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