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.
Amazon’s Kindle is getting bigger. Amazon released a new larger version of the popular e-reader this morning, the Kindle DX, just four short months after the release of the Kindle 2.
Video game fitness programs have in a way taken the world by storm, allowing users to turn working out into a game. One popular video game fitness program by Nintendo: Wii Fit is expected to release a new version of the game this fall that turns working out not only into a game, but also into a competition.
Samsung Electronics Australia has introduce its 450 series Plasma television that fully supports 3-D content for home entertainment. After a long wait, it was finally introduced to the Australian market in June 2008, ready to deliver upcoming 3-D content from the likes of major film studios such as Pixar and Dreamworks, in addition to game studios.
Telepathy in any form has long seemed confined to science fiction books and movies. People with disabilities and problems speaking due accident or other issues seemed condemned to a life of silence, restricted to the written word, typing and TDD terminals. Thanks to a new device, that is all about to change. The first voiceless phone call has now been made.
In a move toward innovation, Cisco, another telecommunications giant, partnering with Intel, has invested over $9.5 Million USD into a company called Soonr. Soonr offers a way to access your desktop from your mobile phone. Soonr lets you access, restore, edit and back up files fro your mobile phone, and from several other mobile devices like PDAs.
If you live in Australia and have an Officeworks superstore nearby, I discovered a can’t-miss deal that only lasts until January 15 – a hi-speed, brand name 1Gb flash drive for less than AUD $30!
Want to create your own website, but don’t want to mess around with HTML? NetObjects Fusion came out years ago promising to make web design easy, and although it has gone through at least a couple of owners over the last 10 versions, it’s still a great way for people wanting a ‘normal’ website (and not a blog site) to create one easily.
Sony’s PSP handheld gaming/movie/music/web browsing system and more will get its own movie download service in 2007 to rival the video downloads iPod owners enjoy through iTunes.
But no word on which Monday they mean…
Well, when it comes to the iPhone, sadly, no-one besides Steve Jobs, his inner circle, Chinese manufacturers and specially selected Internet pundits like the Gizmodo guys or a drunken Digg founder (Kevin Rose) really know.
Telstra have finally launched two external USB modems, one designed for mobile use at the same pricing as the PCMCIA solution, and the other a ‘fixed’ wireless USB modem needing an external power source offering cheaper pricing.
It’s the most unusual and striking USB and Firewire hub we’ve ever seen. Take a look for yourself!
With Telstra recently launching a range of Foxtel channels on its Next-G handsets, Vodafone has launched an even bigger range of TV channels to watch, with 22 in total. They also have an Australian-first EPG on your phone that shows you what’s on right now. Vodafone have also had to change advertising details for their new 3.5G HSDPA modem thanks to Telstra.
China started talking about their own version of the DVD a couple of years ago, but interest fizzled out. Now, talk of the EVD is back!
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.
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!
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.
Once you see Windows Vista in action, you’ll want it. It’s Microsoft’s best operating system yet, and it’s arriving tomorrow!
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.
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.