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Femtocell To The Rescue?
Optus recently launched a new product offering called the “3G Home Zone” to the market. It’s a small, router-like device that acts as a base station for your mobile phone signal within your home, tethered to an existing broadband service. So if you’re in an area with poor Optus reception, or the physical characteristics of your home make mobile reception a problem, the 3G Home Zone product will boost that by using your existing broadband service to bridge the gap...(Read more of this article)
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Apple Lion OS X Roars, But It Can Also Bite
It's been a couple of weeks since Apple released the latest version of its particular computer operating system, OS X 10.7, more informally known as “Lion”. Apple uses the names of the big cats for its operating systems, which is why previous releases have been named things like Tiger, Panther or Snow Leopard. Which means that presumably, a few years down the track, Apple may release OS X Ocelot...(Read more of this article)
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Understanding SSDs
The chances are high that the next time you go to buy a laptop, you'll have the option of either a standard mechanical hard drive or an SSD. On the surface, the numbers would appear to favour mechanical drives; even the cheapest notebooks tend to pack in at least 320GB into a drive, whereas the SSD option is typically under 256GB, and often very small. That's what you'll see on the in-store sticker, but understanding what an SSD is, and why they're becoming more prevalent in the consumer notebook market can help you make an informed buying decision, rather than just looking at the straight storage numbers... (Read more of this article)
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The Perils Of Being An Early Adopter
HP recently managed a couple of firsts in the Australian marketplace. It launched the TouchPad, a tablet competitor to the many Android tablets and Apple's overachieving iPad 2, and in doing so launched the first device running WebOS onto the Australian marketplace. WebOS was an operating system originally developed by Palm -- you may recall the PalmPilot, precursor to today's wave of smartphones -- and snapped up by HP last year for what was going to be a variety of phones and tablet devices...(Read more of this article)
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