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Nintendo plans for US Wii’s change. Also Wii & Poo?!

Plans were afoot to ship 1 million Wii’s to the US this year, but an online news report says this is no longer the case.

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New search engine from Microsoft is quite cool!

Want to see what the search engine of the future might look like? Microsoft has it up and running now. And while the results are from Microsoft, and not Google, which might make you want to not use it, at the very least, this is a search engine you need to see!

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TV Bloopers party on at TV Party

TV Party has a fascinating site on TV bloopers from famous US television shows that’s worth visiting on a trip down memory lane.

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Samsung mobile with Windows less than half inch thick

At less than half an inch thick, or 0.464 inches to be precise, Samsung’s new i600 is a pretty cool phone. But then, ever since the Motorola RAZR, thin has been the in-trend since 2005 with 2007 set to see some of the slimmest phones ever.

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NSW Govt plans free Wi-Fi – what are they thinking?

Just who will pay for the NSW Government’s proposal to give free Wi-Fi broadband Internet to a handful of city centres, most in metropolitan areas?A report on the offer of free wi-fi wireless broadband sounds very nice, but who is paying for it, and what quality of service can anyone expect?

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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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