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By Terence Huynh and Chris Southcott on March 27th, 2011

TECHGEEK Weekly 38: That’ll be $78 Trillion, please

James Wilson, holding his new partner at the iPad 2 Launch (Image: Stewart Wilson/TECHGEEK.com.au)

Despite the fact that Tom, James and Stewart aren’t on, the TECHGEEK Weekly Podcast still lives on, and we discuss the launch of the iPad 2, talk about the BlackBerry Playbook to come with Android applications and the fact that Duke Nukem Forever is delayed (again!).

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By Terence Huynh on January 9th, 2011

TECHGEEK Weekly 27: CES is driving us GaGa

And we’re back officially. CES was in full swing, and we saw a lot of tablets, 4G phones and 3D from Sony. We also had crazy Harvey Norman trying to put GST on our purchases online, Facebook being valued at $50 billion and the Mac App Store launch – and hack.

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By Terence Huynh on January 7th, 2011

Skype brings group video calling to users

Users will now be able to have video conferences on Skype – but for a fee. (Image: Skype)

Skype has announced that it will turn on Group Video Conferences to both consumer and business customers, allowing the entire group conversation able to see each other and show items rather than using the traditional voice group conversations.

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By Terence Huynh on January 6th, 2011

Panasonic goes crazy with 3D, Plasma and LCD televisions

VIERA TC-L42U30 LCD-LED HDTV (Image: Panasonic)

Panasonic is going crazy with televisions, despite the fact we haven’t seen those announcements of the largest plasma televisions in the entire world. But with 14 3D televisions with HD, 7 plasma televisions, 6 LCD-LED HDTVs and 5 LCD HDTVs, Samsung is also pushing 3D television – like many other television producers (i.e. Sony).

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By Terence Huynh on January 6th, 2011

Sony brings out 27 new LCD televisions

Sony's BRAVIA XBR-HX929 LCD Television (Credit: Sony)

Sony’s press conference was simply bringing the 3D experience to your house, and with its new BRAVIA LCD HDTV lineup for 2011, it plans to do so. The company will bring out this year 27 new televisions – 16 are capable of watching 3D content, and 22 have internet connectivity.

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By James Wilson on December 30th, 2010

App Update: Skype for iOS [v 3.0]

Skype3.0

Well it was bound to happen sooner or later and it finally has occurred – call it a last-minute Christmas present from Skype. If you hop on over to iTunes or the App Store, there you will see that Skype has been updated to version 3.0 – a very large milestone, and has some important updates.

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By Terence Huynh on October 10th, 2010

TECHGEEK Podcast 14: OMG! There’s another body!

Yes, apparently Google is into shooting photos of dead people as photos of the dead appeared on Google Street View. Ouch. As well, Motorola gets sued by Microsoft, Facebook lets you download everything you ever uploaded or wrote on Facebook, and MySpace brings out a craptastic new logo.

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By Terence Huynh on March 25th, 2010

LG launches LED HD 3D TV – and yes, you still need to wear those glasses

LG-LED3DTV

LG has announced a brand new 3D television, the LX9500, which is built using LED technology – not like the LCD screens many other 3D screens are using. The television is also super thin – measuring 16mm thin – and is said to allow you to watch any movie from any direction because of its “Multi Picture Format”, unlike many others which are limited sitting directly at the screen. You still, however, need to wear those geeky and uncomfortable glasses. It also support 1080p and features the Skype TV function.

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