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Telstra’s New Wireless Gateway: You Really Pay For What You Get

Elly Hart — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:04:30 +1100

Telstra’s launched a new home internet gateway that delivers high-speed broadband over the Next G wireless network, which means no cables and no fixed lines. But how much are you willing to pay for Australia’s fastest, wireless, broadband connection? (more…)

PS3 Slim On Catch Of The Day For $400 Tomorrow

Nick Broughall — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:30:14 +1100

If you want to risk almost certain disappointment, Catch of the Day will have the new PS3 Slim console available for $400 with a $50 Paypal cashback via redemption from midday tomorrow. Could be a good deal if you can get it…

[Catch of the Day - Thanks Crowyourboat!]

Get Your Hands On A BlackBerry Bold 9700 Now

Nick Broughall — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:30:16 +1100

RIM had a lunch launching the BlackBerry Bold 9700 a couple of weeks ago, but I held off sharing because you couldn’t actually buy the phone yet. Well now you can as Telstra, Optus and Vodafone have all launched the handset. (more…)

PS3 PlayTV Bundle: 250GB PS3 With PlayTV For $599

Nick Broughall — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:30:37 +1100

At this morning’s PlayTV launch, Sony announced that they’ll be bundling the DVR attachment with a new 250GB PS3 console, for $599. That’s not bad value. (more…)

Everything You Wanted To Know About The PS3’s iView

Nick Broughall — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:00:37 +1100

This morning, Sony had a big launch for their new PlayTV device (more on that later today) and an official launch for the iView service. The good news is that all those early issues we have with iView on the PS3 are going to get better. (more…)

SED: The TV That Never Was (And Probably Never Will Be…)

Nick Broughall — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:38 +1100

Back in 2004, Canon – a company known for their cameras – got together with Toshiba to announce the Next Big Thing in TV technology: SED. Five years later, SED has become the television equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever – a lofty concept that sounded great, but we’ve given up on ever seeing its arrival. (more…)

Last Chance To RSVP For Byteside

Nick Broughall — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:18 +1100

Tonight’s the last night for this season of Byteside, the brain child of former Giz editor Seamus. If you’re in Sydney tonight and fancy sharing a few beers with like-minded geeks, make sure you RSVP. Tonight’s shows will be a retrospective look back at the past decade, and the highs and lows of both technology and games. I’ll be there, so make sure you say G’day! (more…)

Queensland MP Taking The Fight To Atkinson’s R18+ Games Ratings Refusal

Nick Broughall — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:46:41 +1100

It’s all well and good for us consumers to bitch about the lack of an R18+ rating in video games, but it’s another thing altogether when politicians start doing it for us. The Hon Kate Jones MP has sponsored a government petition up in Queensland to bring change to the current classifications scheme. (more…)

Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Monday Night

Nick Broughall — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:30:19 +1100

Sony are launching their PlayTV DVR attachment today… Who’s excited?

Teenager Calls 911 After Parents Confiscate His Xbox
But… but… it’s an emergency!

New Jailbroken iPhone Worm Wants Your Bank Details
That didn’t take long. I think I prefer the rickroll…

Microsoft Might Pay Murdoch To De-List From Google
Seriously Murdoch – STFU and do it already…

The Cell Processor Is Going Extinct
Sucks to be Toshiba right about now…

Chrome OS And Android Are Officially Destined To Merge, Somehow
Hopefully the old-fashioned way, with a candlelight dinner, three bottles of chardonnay and some Barry White…

ADVERTISEMENT: Nokia 6710 Navigator Has All The Good Things

Advertisement — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:29:25 +1100

So we know it gets us places and lets us zoom, but what else does Nokia’s 6710 Navigator do? Well, it’s a phone for one thing. (more…)

Television In The Third Dimension

Nick Broughall — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00:05 +1100

The human body is a marvellous thing. The very fact that we have two eyes means that we view everything in three dimensions, a talent that cannot be overstated. However, for years, television engineers have been trying to develop ways that we can trick our brains into thinking that we can see a three dimensional image from a two-dimensional screen. And now it’s the Next Big Thing in TVs. (more…)

ABC iView Now Live On The PS3

Nick Broughall — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:30:26 +1100

If any of you were spending part of your Sunday playing with you PS3, you may have noticed that there was a new option in the XMB for television, with the ABC iView logo sitting front and centre. That’s right – you can now access iView through the PS3. (more…)

Breakfast Wrap: Best Of The Weekend

Nick Broughall — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:30:02 +1100

Intel Atom’s Snow Leopard Compatibility Re-Hacked
That’s one more for the good guys.

Video: Sony’s Massive 280-inch (711cm) 3D LED Display
The world needs more 280-inch screens.

Dell’s Net Income Drops 54%
Ouch! That’s gotta hurt.

Amazon Preparing Better Kindle Ebook Management System In 2010
Hope that means books stop disappearing from the Australian Kindle store…

Hansa Smart Shower Has Three Options, One Is For Your Crotch
That sounds like a shower fit for a King!

Adidas Imperial Stormtrooper Sneakers
I’ll take enough for an army. My army.

Windows 8 Expected In 2012 According To Roadmap
Hope it has a better name than Windows 8…

Apple Denying Support to Smokers?
…. I’m not touching that with a 10 foot pole.

Weekend Gadgets: The Tattoo Hero And His Audio Cables

Nick Broughall — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:38:46 +1100

Last week, while watching an extremely disappointing movie on Blu-ray which won’t be named for fear of inadvertantly promoting it, my receiver switched off on its own, naturally at the film’s climax. At first I thought it had just overheated, but after a bit of playing around, I discovered that one or more of the speaker cables had short circuited. So my weekend will be spent replacing those cables – Joy! Oh, I’ll also be playing with the new HTC Tattoo and HTC Hero Android phones. (more…)

Join The Giz AU Wave

Nick Broughall — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:41:05 +1100

So I’ve been playing around with Google Wave for a while, and despite being on a few waves, have yet to find a really practical use for it. Until now – I want to use Wave as a way of chatting with you guys in real time – in particular as a way of getting feedback on the site. (more…)

Tethering Coming To Telstra iPhones

Nick Broughall — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:19:52 +1100

As picked up by David Flynn at APC, Telstra CEO David Thodey has responded to a comment on the Telstra Exchange blog to announce that the company is “working with Apple to enable tethering on the iPhone”, although he can’t reveal any specific dates. It’s kind of mind blowing that it hasn’t happened already, although I’m sure it’s what happens when you get two companies so focussed on doing things their own way that neither is willing to make the sacrifice necessary to bring this service to their customers.

[Telstra Exchange via APC Mag]

100Hz: Saving LCDs From Motion Judder Since 2006

Nick Broughall — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:38 +1100

LCD’s Achilles’ heel has always been its ability to show fast moving images. Watching sports or fast-paced action films on an early LCD screen was terrible, thanks to the technology’s inadequate refresh rate. But just like introducing LED backlighting helped LCD display blacks better and more vivid colours, the introduction of 100Hz technology went a long way to eliminating the motion judder caused by fast-moving pictures. (more…)

Asus Eee PC T91MT Appeases The Multitouch Faithful

Nick Broughall — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:11 +1100

The original T91 from Asus wasn’t quite the touchscreen netbook we’d been hoping for thanks to the average tablet XP software and lack of multitouch. But Asus is never a company to sit on their hands, so they’ve updated the T91 to the T91MT, which adds Windows 7 and multitouch. (more…)

Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Thursday Night

Nick Broughall — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:30:59 +1100

Oh God how I missed you Friday! Welcome back!

Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Gets Its Very Own App Store
I’ve had a quick look at it – being able to translate a word on the fly is awesome.

Rumour: Apple Tablet Delayed For OLED Upgrade
Oh, please. OLED is still way too expensive for this to be true.

Everything You Need To Know About Chrome OS [Liveblog]
Very interested to see how the world takes to Chrome OS…

Apple Exec Wants You To Puke All Over His Mind-Bending Deck
Somehow I don’t think he really does. Nice design though…

Review: Pioneer AVIC-F10BT In-Dash Satnav System

Nick Broughall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:47:54 +1100

Earlier this week, the guys at Pioneer let me drive around in one of their cars for a couple of days to test out the AVIC-F10BT in-dash satnav entertainment system. And now that I’ve tasted the supple delights of the AVIC, my own car’s stereo system seems old and tired, like a Hollywood starlet who’s let herself go. My satnav – once the pride and joy of my glovebox – now seems clunky and cumbersome. If I could, I’d take my car and the AVIC system to Vegas and get them hitched, because the simple fact is that they belong together. (more…)

Details On Telstra’s T-Box Announced

Nick Broughall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:40:46 +1100

Back in March, Telstra said they’d be launching 100Mbps cable in Melbourne. Today, the Big T announced that they’d be flicking the switch on December 1, as well as confirming details on the T-Box. Not to be confused with the T-Hub, this one’s a DVR! For TV. (more…)

Our Favourite Lifehacker Posts Of The Week

Elly Hart — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:15:00 +1100

This week, Lifehacker looks at why Aussies are less vulnerable to malware, DIY camera lens and media centres, how to get Google Apps on your desktop, the best online backup tools, and free passes on offer to the SME Technology Summit! (more…)

LED Backlighting Is LCD’s Trump Card

Nick Broughall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:00:19 +1100

Up until recently, LCDs just couldn’t compete with plasmas when it came to showing blacks or colours. They weren’t just bad, either: they sucked, at least in comparison to plasma. But then came LED backlighting, and things changed. (more…)

Garmin FR60 Watch Is All About The Fitness

Nick Broughall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:49:46 +1100

Remember when watches just told the time? No, me neither. The latest watch coming out of Garmin’s factories – the FR60 – is a fitness freak’s wet dream in watch form. For $199, you get a watch with heart rate monitor, which tracks your efforts as you exercise. (more…)

HTC Hero: Unlocked At Harvey Norman For $799

Nick Broughall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:47:32 +1100

Yesterday afternoon, the folks at HTC finally announced the Aussie release of the HTC Hero and HTC Tattoo. The good news? They’re being sold unlocked through Harvey Norman for $799 and $599 respectively. The bad news? That means you’ll have to find your own contract with a data plan, which isn’t necessarily the easiest thing in the world. (more…)