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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.
Posted in Education, New products, Open source, Technology news
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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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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.
Posted in Imaging, New products, Special features, Technology news
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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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