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Thanks to everyone who sent word that Australia will have a federal Do Not Call register in 2007. Once a telephone number is registered, it will be prohibited for telemarketers to contact that number.
Eroda spotted this blog page about camera tossing. Here's a nice example.
There's a lot of talk about online movie stores lately, but it seems Australia won't get them until the end of the year. "The infrastructure is just not set up here," says Universal Pictures Australasia managing director Liz Nicholson.
Digital radio won't be here for a while yet either, thanks Sniper. Senator Coonan, who said last October it would take two or three years to roll out digital radio services, yesterday set down a launch date of January 1, 2009, for services in Australian capital cities.
ExtremeTech have a 17-way graphics shootout with a focus on gaming. We'll show you benchmarks with 3DMark06 and a sample of games that are representative of the graphics-card-stressors of the day. We'll show you which models deliver high fames-per-second per dollar, and just plain high frames-per-second.
Designtechnica consider their top 6 web browsers, being Firefox, Camino, Netscape, IE, Safari and Opera.
TweakGuides have their Oblivion guide published, for the latest installment in the Elder Scrolls series. Well Oblivion has finally been released, and I can genuinely vouch for the fact that it is not only a worthy successor to Morrowind; it ups the stakes to a whole new level. Bit-Tech have a graphics & gaming guide for it also.
Timbot pointed out that HardOCP have their thoughts on PhysX published, with something of a rebuttal on GDHardware.
LaptopGamers cover how to make WinXP shut down faster. When you choose to shutdown your computer, Windows will automatically wait a little bit before it kills applications that are open. Here we will show you how to reduce the wait time.
AMD is shipping chips from its new Fab 36 in Dresden, Germany. The company said it has producing 65 nanometer test chips in parallel with 90 nanometer chips out of the new fab, and the fab is on track to begin 65 nanometer production shipments in the second half of the year.
PenStarSys meanwhile consider Intel and 45nm. As tech enthusiasts we tend to be quite optimistic about how a certain product family or process node is going, because we simply want to see these new products and lines come forward as soon as possible so we can see the results and buy these new products.
Eroda noticed these very large USB pen drives, up to to 64GB in size. Slightly larger than a stick of gum, this unit packs a phenomenal amount of solid state storage into a small form factor.
IBM claim that processors with massive numbers of cores may not be that far away. The blueprint showed a central PowerPC that was complemented by 1024 (that is one thousand and twenty four) 8-bit "processing elements" on a single and - according to IBM - low-cost die.
Bytesector went to the launch of Tourist Trophy for PS2, a motorcycle-racing game from the makers of Gran Turismo.
HWZone checked out the partnership between AMD and Ferrari. For more than 3 years, AMD has been the official sponsor and technology partner for the world's fastest red racing group: the Scuderia Ferrari team. Hmm, someone hasn't been watching F1 lately.
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