Posted in Technology on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
A university in Texas will be providing all of its first year students one of Apple’s new iPhone mobiles or the wireless-enabled iPod touch.
Phil Schubert, the executive vice president of the Abilene Christian University (ACU), said in a statement that the devices will be used to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get [...]
Posted in Technology on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Apple’s delayed update to the Mac OS X operating system is hitting store shelves as consumers are increasingly snapping up Macintosh computers to complement their iPods and iPhones.
Dubbed Leopard, the upgrade went on sale at 6pm local time on Friday at stores around the world. It offers improvements to an operating system that already was [...]
Posted in Technology on Oct 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Blu-ray DVD titles outsold rival HD-DVD titles by almost 2-to-1 in the first nine months of the year, but analysts expect additional HD-DVD support and new hit releases to “transform” the high-definition DVD battle score in the fourth quarter.
Home Media Research, a division of Home Media Magazine, said on Tuesday total U.S. sales of [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Top mobile phone maker Nokia is introducing an upgraded version of a wireless multimedia device without a phone, the company said on Wednesday, as it takes aim at Apple’s iPod touch.
The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet is intended for heavy users of websites, such as Google, Skype, Facebook and Flickr. It connects to Wi-Fi hot spots [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Oct 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Hazardous chemicals found in the Apple iPhone are not only toxic to the environment, they can also “interfere with sexual development in mammals”, scientists at Greenpeace say.
In the latest of a series of reports chastising Apple for its apparent disregard for the environment, the ardent environmental campaigner said its own tests of the iPhone [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Sep 6th, 2007 No Comments »
A teenager from Victoria says that within days he will start delivering a hack that unlocks the iPhone for Australian mobile networks, using only a software application.
The 17-year-old high school student from Mildura, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he had signed up to be an Australian reseller of the iPhoneSimFree hack, developed by [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 27th, 2007 No Comments »
The iPhone should be an ideal device for playing video games.
After all, it has a gloriously large touch-sensitive screen and sensors that can detect when it’s being tilted: a mash-up of the best features of Nintendo’s DS handheld and Wii home console.
But games for Apple’s iPhone are off to a slow start as the company [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Sony plans to sell a satellite navigation accessory from February that turns its handheld PSP games console into a navigation device, the company announced at the Leipzig Games Convention on Wednesday.
The PSP equipped with the global positioning (GPS) accessory will compete with dedicated navigation devices such as those made by TomTom and Garmin.
David Reeves, head [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Viacom’s MTV Networks said on Tuesday it struck a digital music partnership with online music service RealNetworks and Verizon to compete against Apple’s iTunes.
MTV Networks will contribute cash, a five-year note for $US230 million and other assets to the joint venture, according to a RealNetworks filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
MTV will merge [...]
