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Office pirates beware: Microsoft about to put in the boot
Or should that be Microsoft beware: some of your users are about to jump ship to a free Office alternative, whether the next version of Office is 10 years ahead of the competition, or not.
The phone that’s thrice the price of an iPod
Ever wondered what a mobile phone from Bang and Olufsen would look like? Armed with Samsung’s technical expertise, they’ve applied their design brilliance to creating one of the most unique mobile phones ever seen. The name? Serene. The price? US $1275.
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Thanks for the memories: Vista needs 2Gb of RAM
Think you’ll be able to run Windows Vista on your existing hardware? If all the visual bells and whistles are turned off, it’ll probably run just fine, and should even make your hardware run better. But Dell’s CEO thinks you’ll need more memory, with 2Gb the sweet spot. Is he right?
Fusion of ATI and AMD complete?
Despite leading the race against Intel with the Opteron and the Athlon 64 over the past couple of years, AMD needed a partner with vast chip manufacturing experience of its own to strike back at Intel’s recent resurgence. What does the future hold for the newly merged company?
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Moto’s new KRZR and RIZR on the sharp edge of cool
Motorola’s RAZR phone redefined cool like no other phone so far this century. Sleek, slim and sharp, it spawned an avalanche of clones that delivered everything but the design sophistication the RAZR still has to this day. Can HelloMoto do it again?
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Aussie Xbox 360s fly off the shelves
In the seven months since the Xbox 360 launched on Australian shores, over 100,000 consoles have sold along with 400,000 games titles, setting new records in the Aussie market. Can Xbox 360 maintain the pace with Wii and PS3 hot on the trail?
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New MacBook Pros launch at last!
But where are the Macbooks? As I and others have predicted, Apple have finally launched Core 2 Duo based MacBook Pros onto the world market. Already for sale from all major Apple websites including Australia, Apple’s greatest chance at gaining new Mac converts has arrived.
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Space shuttle launch
Just found some pics on the Internet of the Space Shuttle launching from the International Space Station (the ISS)!
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Updated 32Gb flash drive story
Flash drives keep on getting bigger and bigger. In the early days, we dealt with flash drives in sizes of a few megabytes and larger, but today 1Gb flash drives and cards are common. Now a 32Gb model has finally landed, with the promise of a 64Gb version coming soon… but have you seen the price?!
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Mac attacks rare, but real
There’s no question that, today, Macs are much more secure than Windows based PCs. This is thanks to a more secure operating system, but it has also been because of a smaller user base that presented a smaller target for malware and virus writers. However the smaller user base argument is not necessarily the case today, thanks to the rise and rise of the iPod and the iMac.
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Virus scare a lesson for Apple
While the small batch of Apple iPods infected with a Windows virus pose no threats to iMacs or the iPods themselves, the fact they were infected at all is a big worry. Now, the potential for virus and malware writers to start targeting Mac OS X in a bigger way cannot be ignored, and should be a massive wake-up call to Apple and its users: owning a Mac does not mean you’re invulnerable.
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Vista and Win CE soon to set sail
With two brand new versions of Windows by November 1, the end of the Windows world as we know it is already here.
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Answers to Laser TV questions
Last week the Laser TV launched on the world stage, and although only a prototype, showed an amazing ability to deliver such a rich range of colours that a plasma TV next to it looked dull in comparison. Our follow up article asked some questions about the viability of Laser TVs, and now we have some answers. Read on for more!
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Online services maturing, PS3/Wii latest examples
While many parts of the world, including Australia, won’t be seeing a PS3 in stores until March 2007, the US and Japanese launch is still set for November and final preparations are well underway, while the Wii’s online service, which is launching worldwide in November and December with the Wii itself, is also being finalised. While new online services for the Wii and PS3 show great potential, what is some of the history, and where are they going?
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Living with Vista RC1 and Office 2007 every day
With all the talk about Windows Vista, seeing as both Vista RC1 (and now RC2) and Office 2007 are freely available to anyone with broadband fast enough to download it in a reasonable time, or a credit card to order copies on DVD, we thought we’d put Microsoft’s latest through its paces for Free Access. Here are the results!
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Will Telstra’s new NextG network change our lives?
The next generation of wireless mobile phone and data technology has arrived. Better than 3G, it’s called 3.5G (or NextG as Telstra calls it), and it means more coverage and more speed in more places than ever before across Australia. Given that Telstra says it will change our lives, the question is, will it?
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The hard drive turns 50…
On September 13, 1956, the hard disk drive was born. It’s interesting to note that TV and the Hard Disk Drive are both 50 years old, and in 2006 they are finally coming together as never before.
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Apple’s latest has landed at last! – Updated.
New iPods, new software and new accessories are finally here, and as always, it’s amazing to see what the rumour mill gets right and what it gets wrong. While we’ve all speculated about widescreen iPods and iPod phones which, as it turns out, haven’t arrived this time around, there’s still a lot to be happy about with Apple’s latest harvest – and thankfully, that’s whether you’re buying a new iPod or not! Let’s take a look in some more detail below, in the longest post I’ve written! Don’t worry, you’ll read through it all quickly… 
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A brief history of FREE ACCESS
On turning 40: A brief history of
FREE ACCESS
By John Pospisil
July 2005
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