If you’ve been holding out on purchasing a netbook, now may be the time. HP has just announced a new HP Mini 5105, that takes the term netbook to the next level, and provides a lot specs that make it stand out from the competition.
MMORPG across the globe recently received some exciting news US based Blizzard Entertainment is making patch 3.0.2 (pre-Wrath of the Lich King patch) available today. Users trying to access the game received a message stating that about WOW downtime which began at 2:00 AM PDT and ends 2:00 PM PDT.
Google recently updated Google Translate. Users now have 11 additional languages to choose from. Google’s machine translation service now supports 35 languages.
Recently, Blizzard announced that Wrath of the Lich King would be available in stores on November 13, 2008. WOTLK marks the third expansion in the extremely popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft.
Best Buy recently announced that it would be purchasing Napster for $121 million dollars. It has some speculating whether it has its eyes set on knocking out the music giant, iTunes. Apple’s iTunes said bye bye to Best Buy when its spot as the #2 music retailer in the USA. iTunes wasn’t finished they came back a few months later to knock Wal-Mart out of the top position. Currently Apple’s iTunes is the #1 music retailer in the United States.
While we’re no longer producing a print edition of FREE ACCESS, we are producing a special magazine on behalf of D-Link that focuses on networking.
Nintendo’s upcoming games console, the Wii, will launch in Australia on December 7 at AUD $399.95. The press release just came into my inbox at 9.14pm - a few minutes ago as this is being blogged! Details below…
The original Star Wars Trilogy is coming out soon on DVD - and these original versions feature none of the so-called ‘enhancements’ that found their way into the slightly updated versions of Eps 4, 5 and 6 around the time Ep 1 was coming out.
According to Apple’s website at
https://depot.info.apple.com/batteryexchange/index…
“Apple is voluntarily recalling certain lithium ion rechargeable batteries that were sold worldwide from October 2004 through May 2005 for use with the following notebook computers: 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4 and 15-inch PowerBook G4″.
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The Autumn 2006 edition of FREE ACCESS will be arriving in stores from 20 April! This issue includes coverage of the hottest new digital devices, digital cameras and home theatre. Make sure you don’t miss it!
Just a quick note to let you know that we are working on the Autumn issue of FREE ACCESS #43 and we expect that it will hit the streets in early to mid April. We’ll post the exact date of release once we have it locked in.
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Our reader forums have been defaced by a worm, and so are currently offline. Hopefully we’ll get them back online soon.
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The FREE ACCESS web site is being upgraded during the weekend of 3 Dec to 4 Dec. Full functionality should be restored by Dec 5.
FREE ACCESS #42 (Summer 0506) was released in early December! Key stories included: Forty two great gift ideas, Amazing new digital cameras and Keeping your PC safe. Pick up a copy from your participating retailer. The PDF edition will be uploaded in the next few weeks.
Congratulations to Ash Jarvis of Ashbury NSW for winning our annual reader survey. Ash won an amazing pack which included a iRiver H10 mp3 player, Iomega 40 Gb mini hard drive, TDK NX02 CD/Radio Hi-Fi system, Canon Selphy DS700 photo printer and Logitech LX700 wireless keyboard and mouse.