Sega has unveiled a new console, which seems to be pretty underwhelming in contrast to the other major consoles out now. Only time will tell whether the Zone Sega Wireless Gaming Console will be a contender in the “Console War” or just another knock-off like the Wii.

The Zone Sega Wireless Console boasts 50 games; 20 from the Mega Drive and Genesis era, 14 arcade games, and 16 sport games controlled via a Wii remote like controller. The Sega games though do not use motion control which leaves the question, will emulator get the best of it or will Sega and 3rd party developers make the Zone a worthwhile buy.

The console will sell at £50; roughly $90 here in Australia, and due out in the 3rd quarter of 2010.

Apple have today released the best thing for Windows users - updated Bootcamp drivers for their Windows 7 installation on their Mac. While this will be of big relieve to those who use Windoze Windows on their Mac, the following models have been classed as unsupported:

iMac (17-inch, Early 2006)
iMac (17-inch, Late 2006)
iMac (20-inch, Early 2006)
iMac (20-inch, Late 2006)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2006)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2006)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2006)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2006)
Mac Pro (Mid 2006, Intel Xeon Dual-core 2.66GHz or 3GHz)

Jump on over the almighty fruits website and download the goods: 32-bit and 64-bit. For those of us who have been holding off upgrading from Vista (ugh) to 7, a Boot Camp Upgrade Utility has been created to help with the upgrade. Get it here.

Happy driving...

The year 2009 has been an interesting year for Australians. Not only we remember the political scandals like Utegate and the Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O’s controversial lie detector stunt on radio; but we also remember how Australians got together and showed solidarity amongst one another via charity work after the Bushfires caused havoc to many Australians living in the countryside in Victoria.

TECHGEEK.com.au now takes a look back at what made the technology headlines in Australia, recapping the top five technology issues that happened during the year 2009. Don’t worry, we also provided links so you can find more information from us or the source.

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The year that was known as 2008 can’t be called an easy one. From Barack Obama winning the election to an entire year of worry on our economic stability, or the fact that Australia might be acting like China to implement a filter that we didn’t want; TECHGEEK.com.au recollects on the year that was, in a series of posts from the entire year that were in our archives since 2008.

The following retrospective covers the month of December 2008.

December

This is the season to be jolly, but most of the news was either bad or sad. With Pownce shutting down its doors, Microsoft announcing that every version of Internet Explorer had a security hole, an Ohio boy kills his mother over Halo 3 and Telstra gets its bid for the NBN rejected, then loses $12 billion in its market value – that’s got to but a bummer on Christmas.

And as well, like the past few months, we had a couple of layoffs from Sony and Gawker Media (again), and Yahoo this month starting axing several jobs after previously announcing them. Also, Motorola had their credit rating downgraded to “below investment grade” as the company suffers because of its mobile devices division.

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The year that was known as 2008 can’t be called an easy one. From Barack Obama winning the election to an entire year of worry on our economic stability, or the fact that Australia might be acting like China to implement a filter that we didn’t want; TECHGEEK.com.au recollects on the year that was, in a series of posts from the entire year that were in our archives since 2008.

The following retrospective covers the month of November 2008.

November

November saw London introducing new “bomb-proof” bins, Microsoft tries to lure people to the PC… outside a Apple Store, learning that the DSi breaks homebrew flashcards, a Road sign gets the wrong translation because of an email, TiVos in Australia finally get some freaking interactivity, the RAZR may be dead after Motorola axes the RAZR3, Streem admits defeat and shuts down, YouTube goes widescreen, and an Israeli politician borrows Obama’s site design.

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The year that was known as 2008 can’t be called an easy one. From Barack Obama winning the election to an entire year of worry on our economic stability, or the fact that Australia might be acting like China to implement a filter that we didn’t want; TECHGEEK.com.au recollects on the year that was, in a series of posts from the entire year that were in our archives since 2008.

The following retrospective covers the months September & October 2008.

September

September saw the launch of Google’s Chrome browser, the Apple Store coming to Chadstone, the introduction of a new “BlueTrack” mouse, the potential end-of-the-world scenario at CERN, Microsoft introducing two ads featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld – before ditching them for the “I’m a PC” campaign, the relationship between porn and you, net radio survives another day, looking at iPhone knockoffs, and the iPhone being unlocked in Hong Kong.

Joost and Hulu compete to see who is the leader in anime, The T-Mobile G1 gets launched,  Adobe releases the much-anticipated update to the Creative Suite line, SanDisk has a new way to listen to music, Vodafone announcing an “unlimited” music plan, Apple recalling the USB power adaptors for the iPhone 3G, Telstra gets a restructure that sees it being split into three, Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account hacked, and porn was found on a phone.

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The year that was known as 2008 can’t be called an easy one. From Barack Obama winning the election to an entire year of worry on our economic stability, or the fact that Australia might be acting like China to implement a filter that we didn’t want; TECHGEEK.com.au recollects on the year that was, in a series of posts from the entire year that were in our archives since 2008.

The following retrospective covers the months May and June 2008.

May

May saw nothing but an overload orgy of Apple iPhone news – with Telstra, Optus and Vodafone announcing that they will stock the iPhone in Australia (Vodafone also announced that the deal was worldwide), Singapore Telecommunications announcing that they got the “Asia-Pacific” rights, Telecom Italia announcing that it also has the rights in Italy and TeliaSonera announcing that they secured deals for the Baltic and Nordic countries (like Denmark, Lithuania and Finland).

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The year that was known as 2008 can’t be called an easy one. From Barack Obama winning the election to an entire year of worry on our economic stability, or the fact that Australia might be acting like China to implement a filter that we didn’t want; TECHGEEK.com.au recollects on the year that was, in a series of posts from the entire year that were in our archives since 2008.

The following retrospective covers the months March and April 2008.

March

March saw a New Zealand teenager who apparently ran a spybot network got bail, Ziff Davis Media filing for bankruptcy, Hulu becoming open and no longer a private beta, Wikipedia under another scandal from its co-founder, Jimmy Wales, trading edits for donations, Facebook angering the Israeli for listing them as from Palestine, Scientology starting a war to counter attacks and protests from a group called “Anonymous”, and AnyDVD cracks the DRM on the Blu-Ray disks.

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