Vodafone Australia has announced that it would be selling the iPhone later this year in Australia, as part of a global deal with Apple.
The global deal would see Vodafone selling the product in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey.
Buyers of the Sony Bravia LCD TV have been waiting for the company to actually do what it promised to due – give them a PlayStation 3 console.
The delays came after the Sydney Morning Herald revealed that customers in the Samsung’s two-for-one promotion for its LCD TV product line; where it offered a smaller LCD for free if you bought a big-screen LCD TV set. Customers have been waiting for five months.
Cuba has now lifted a ban on personal computers, in a series of restrictions being lifted in recent weeks by the new President, Raul Castro.
Crowds formed at the Carlos III shopping centre at Havana, though many came to look at them only. The computers will cost $800, though many will have to wait months, even years, to purchase one as the average wage is under $20 a month.
After months of speculation by us and by everyone; an industry insider has confirmed to CNET.com.au that Optus would be selling the iPhone, with sales and service commencing in the last week of June.
The PC manufacturing giant Dell has turned to the Wesfarmers’ owned Officeworks to help unseat HP in a bitter market share war between the two in Australia.
After months of wooing the retail ‘gods’, Officeworks would offer Dell computers, laptops, printers and flat panel displays.
In a move that signals the "next phase", as APC says, Intel has slashed the price of the Q6700 Core 2 Duo Quad processor in half, with the other chips in its line reduced by 30 percent. The Q6700 now sells for US$266, or around AU$280; from the original price of US$530, or AU$558.50.
The Australian Federal Police have arrested two men in Victoria, after a six-month investigation into an alleged piracy syndicate.
Executing 10 search warrants in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland; they managed to find hundreds of fake Pay TV encryption cards and set-top boxed. These fake smart cards, or “gamma” cards, are used with these set-top boxes to receive and decrypt the signals from Foxtel and Austar service.
HP has said that it had released some USB sticks for their Proliant server brand which may contain malware that could allow an attacker to take over an infected system.
The USBs affect a numerous amount of models of the Proliant line and are only contained in the 256MB and 1GB USB models. The malware has been identified as W32.Fakerecy and W32.SillyFDC. These two worms spread by copying themselves to removable or mapped drives and only affect Windows 95 – XP and Windows NT.
Microsoft is currently evaluating its bid to buy Yahoo after saying that Yahoo may have lost value, according to sources telling Reuters.
The news of the re-evaluation saw Yahoo’s stock down by more than 5 percent after extended trade on NASDAQ. The source told Reuters that it has lost value after losing valuable key personnel, while giving pay rises to executives and full-time employees.
Technology problems are to blame according to the Associated Press as the United States government will be forced to go back to the old times on counting the 300 million people living in the nation with paper and pencil.
Boing Boing is reporting that Slysoft, the makers of the famous DVD-copying software AnyDVD HD, has managed to crack the new anti-copying system used on Blu-Ray disks.
Known as BD+, it was thought to be uncrackable and was one of the reasons cited by many pundits for its victory over HD-DVD in the format wars. BD+ allowed the movie studios to include applications on the disks with some can downgrade or not play parts of the disk.
Now that Vista SP1 is out of the way (but creating more havoc), all eyes have now moved on to the new service pack for Windows XP, SP3. This will be, according to Neowin, the last package of updates for the popular operating system.
Just days after it was released, Vista SP1 has created more problems for more users of the successor of Windows XP, which came out in 2001.
Users are finding that it is suffering from speed and compatibility issues, even Microsoft executives are complaining about it after emails were made public during a US court case about it’s “Vista Capable” guide.
Senior Microsoft staff have now been revealed to have complained about the misleading advertisements and Windows Vista incompatibility issues in embarrassing e-mails made public during a court case.
Published online by The New York Times, corporate vice president for Windows product management Mike Nash said that he “got burned” after buying a laptop with “Vista Capable” but was not capable to run the full version of the operating system.
Following lukewarm sales of Vista and also following the US lead into cutting prices, Microsoft Australia is hoping to get in more buyers by slashing prices up to 40 percent from the retail versions.