…be expanding the service to customers flying internationally as well. You’ll be able to choose your seat when you book your ticket online for international flights, either when you book or later on. Australian Personal Computer Magazine, who reported the story, pointed out that it only gets you past the…
…Industry earlier this year said billions of dollars were being lost due to piracy, with illegal downloads outnumbering the legal ones sold online by a factor of 20 to 1. Source: Australian Personal Computer Magazine Additional Material: Sydney internet cafe raided by AFP (CNET) International Federation of the Phonographic Industry…
…network failed to deal with the influx of users. Attempts to update the network to cope have struggled as well, with the patches being plagued by bugs rendering Optus iPhone users unable to access the telephone network several times. Source: Australian Personal Computer Magazine Additional material: Australian Personal Computer Magazine…
…homes until early 2010. With over a year to go and with Windows XP not sold anymore, this would force prospective PC buyers to head to Windows Vista, an option many a computer user can dread due to its excessive resource requirements and incompatibility with much of what XP supports….
…Sydney Morning Herald, Evan Manolis, Australian Senior Product Manager at Samsung said: “Your TV is becoming a computer entertainment hub – so it’s not just for TV viewing. You’ll be able to have stock, news, sports and weather information streamed on your LCD or plasma.” Manolis predicted the concept would…
…trance of its spells, some other manufacturers would like to show you that they too believe that “touching is believing.” One of the original portable pocketable computer makers HTC is getting in on the action with the HTC Touch Diamond, a new Windows-based Smartphone that boasts 4 gig of memory,…
…motorists after the computer misinterpreted photos taken of number plates on vehicles without eTags The computer misread license plates on vehicles travelling in the tunnel and the nearby Falcon Street Gateway for five months, from March to August this year. The company released a statement saying they were working with…
…old computer on eBay. The computer was later discovered to have millions of private financial records on its hard drive. The computer was bought from eBay for $75 by Andrew Chapman, an IT manager from Oxford, who found the info on the hard drive. Details on file included account numbers,…
…of operations, said DVD piracy was no longer the domain of mums and dads or computer geeks but had fallen into the regime of big business for members of syndicated crime. More than $233 million a year was being stolen from Australia’s film industry. Gann suggested that the high profit…
…to them every day and use them for many of the functions that are vital to our lives, whether it be communicating with someone or getting some work done. But with all that work done around them, have you ever noticed if your computer smelled? And if you did, was…
…to assign different tasks to each card making it not only more efficient but more long-term user friendly for consumers. There’s more information about it below, but this looks to be one of the most interesting computer developments seen in a while. Lucid’s HYDRA engine Written by Leigh D. Stark…
…or are you content with having a higher power computer with you strapped to your back or sides while your little mp3 player sits in your pocket? The question of ultimate convergence will become ever more prominent too as more and more devices work out how to squeeze the best…