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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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