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Asus Eee brings in anorexic computing

Gareth Powell — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:37:15 +0000

Today Asustek plans to showcase a new ultra-thin Eee PC at the CeBIT show in Germany, which opens today and runs until Sunday. Called the Eee 1008HA Shell, it is said to be so slim that if [...]

Internode Fiber to the home — faster than a speeding bullet

Gareth Powell — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:50:47 +0000

Internode, an Internet Service Provider, in Australia will be offer 100mbps Fiber-to-the-Home Service. Prices will start from $32 for 25mbps and be offered in 50mbps and 100mbps, retailing for under US$64.

Worth knowing that despite denials [...]

Cheap and green electricity from solar cells — perhaps, possibly, maybe

Gareth Powell — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:14:14 +0000

Revolutionary solar panels are taking the concept of cheap green electricity one step further. An Australian printing firm will soon begin trials of the ultra-cheap panels made from plastic cells and printed like banknotes.

Mass production [...]

Microsoft Windows 7 and Office 14 will launch on different dates

Gareth Powell — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:46:11 +0000

Microsoft Windows 7 is effectively launched, Microsoft Office 14 looks more like being with us in 2010, Windows Mobile 7 will be about the same date, 2010.

Does it make an immense difference that Microsoft Office 14 will be late?

Actually not.

The key date is the launching [...]

Skype steals bandwidth — even when you are not using it

Gareth Powell — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:45:35 +0000

Skype can seriously damage your business. This week we had our connection cut to a crawl. There are three of us wired into the network and when the telephone supplier applied the cap we [...]

Dell claims Netbook is generic: Potter Scientific Innovations or Nothing claims otherwise

Gareth Powell — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:57:05 +0000

PSION, of which you have never heard, claim it owns the title to Netbook. Dell is suing the company so that the name is called generic.

I have had several of these small PSION machines. They look nothing like a Netbook. If anything, they look like [...]

Apple gives more satisfaction

Gareth Powell — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:35:49 +0000

The Register is a newsletter published in 33 Glasshouse Street. (Although this is not the military prison in Colchester, the inmates still take a pride in dressing as if they were. None of them would have been in my regiment, [...]

Aussie telco boss loses top-secret Windows cellphone

Gareth Powell — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:25:41 +0000

Sol Trujillo, controversial head of Australian telephone provider, Telstra, has had his pocket picked. Worse still a mobile phone, probably the same as that illustrated, loaded with top-secret software was nicked at the same time.

The new-generation software was on [...]

World’s fastest NextG modem pricey in Australia

Gareth Powell — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:40:17 +0000

Telstra will charge as much as $319 (US dollars) for a 21 megabits-per-second modem to access full speed of the new HSPA+ upgrade to its Next G third-generation network.

But customers who elect to take a $25 per month, $32 per month or above ‘data pack’ [...]

China does not want dirty phone calls

Gareth Powell — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:36:14 +0000

China wages war on pornographic sites. And it works well. Now the war is being extended. No pornographic phone calls. And other bans which may surprise you. One has to be a bit careful here not to stir up a hornet’s nest but if you [...]