Computers
Andy Warhol once said that in the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes. Well move over Andy - the future has arrived with recent collaborations between communications giant Nokia and blogging innovator Six Apart which will create a powerful multimedia blogging experience for people who want to share their lives online - as they happen. Read More
Creative Zen Portable Media Center based upon Microsoft Software
A new era could potentially begin this week with the release of the AUD $999 Creative Labs Zen Portable Media Center (PMC), a tiny device with a 3.8" colour LCD screen and 20GB hard drive that will play Windows Media Video, Windows Media Audio, MP3, JPEG, and TIFF files. Such devices have been coming to market from lesser-known manufacturers over the last 12 months but have not become mainstream as yet, largely because only the very earliest of adopters have embraced the concept. Read More
Toshiba have announced a new technology that increases privacy for the user by narrowing the viewing angle of LCD screens. Read More
A new kind of "Power Handheld" that integrates a full VGA screen, retractable QWERTY thumb-operated keyboard and wireless data acces via GPRS networks has been released on the UK market after a deal between smart device specialists bSQUARE and Vodafone. Read More
The local and global internet audience is rapidly maturing according to the research figures from IDC, Gartner and Red Sherrif. Globally, industrialised nations are now heading for internet ubiquity, less than a decade after the internet was introduced to the population at large. Since the turn of the millenium, the number of internet connections in the world has nearly doubled, and by 2009/10, the number of people on the internet will exceed one billion. Read More
Sony has delivered the first optical technology capable of storing up to 23 GB of data on a single-sided disc. The new devices include a drive with a maximum native transfer rate of 11 MB/sec and an automated Autochanger that offers up to 1.6TB of native capacity in a compact 19-inch rack-mount design. Read More
Saturday November 8, 2003: The USTV-1 is a windows-compatible TV tuner that connects to your PC or laptop via USB (version 2.0 or 1.1) and is bundled with "Feather-X" software to enable television playback and recording on computer. Read More
November 8, 2003 An array of new personal computing products from companies including Acer, Toshiba, Fujitsu and HP were unveiled in Sydney on Thursday 8 November as part of the long awaited worldwide launch of the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, a new version of Windows XP Professional with extensive handwriting and voice recognition capabilities. The new generation of Tablet PCs are designed to deliver the full resources of a notebook computer along with the familiarity of the worlds oldest and most successful input device - pen and paper. Read More
Friday November 7, 2003: DoubleSight is a uniquely designed dual LCD monitor that employs two 15-inch flat panels mounted side-by-side on a single base to provide 24 by 9 inches of screen real-estate despite a relatively small desktop footprint. Read More
Friday November 7, 2003: MOOTER is a new Australia search engine planning an aggressive entry into the multi-million dollar paid search market. By displaying results as simple clusters of information rather than long lists and attempting to prioritise the users search, Mooter hopes to offer a more intelligent and 'humanised' approach to finding information on the Internet. Read More
