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Google has officially launched Gmail Offline, allowing users to read and compose mail without the need to be connected to the internet. As detailed in the announcement today via the official Gmail blog, once you switch on Gmail Offline (as usual it’s in the labs tab under settings) Gmail uses Google Gears to download a local cache of your mail.
Russian PM Vladimir Putin told Michael Dell that Russia doesn't need his help with IT expansion. DAVOS, Switzerland (Fortune) -- Ever since Vladimir Putin rose to power in 2000, his political opponents and entire countries have learned to their cost that he has a tough, demeaning streak. Wednesday it was Michael Dell's turn.
Next time you decide to use an outside dunny don't forget the toilet paper and to close the door. Google has swiftly yanked an image from its mapping service showing a man sitting on his outhouse dunny in an inner-city Melbourne backyard.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will soon sign off on the imminent internet filtering trial. The next few days will see the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy sign agreements with some of the internet service providers (ISP) who submitted applications to be a part of the ISP-level objectionable content filtering trial.
Apple has shipped around 125,000 iPhones to Australia in the first 3 months since going on sale in July 2008. "I wasn't expecting the number to be that high," IDC telecommunications market analyst Mark Novosel told ZDNet.com.au this week, noting he had thought it would be more in the realm of 50 to 100 thousand for the quarter to 30 September. As for the reason, Novosel put it all down to hype. "Basically there was so much hype in the market. Australians had been waiting for one and a half years."
Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo says that Google's Android mobile platform isn't "robust". "We are looking at it," Trujillo said in the interview with ZDNet.com.au sister site CNET News.com, responding to a question about Android. "But the platform isn't at the stage where it's really robust. We are looking at what's being said about it in the blogosphere, and we're looking at testing it."
Bit-tech is test driving a set of G.Skill F3-12800CL8T-6GBHK Tri-Channel DDR3 modules. Just a few days ago we took a look at the Corsair DHX+ triple-channel DDR3 kit for Core i7 CPUs and today it's G.Skill's turn. Matched to the Corsair modules at 1,600MHz CAS-8, they feature a standard profile package with blue "HK" heatspreaders compared to the more elaborate DHX+ heatsinks on the Corsair.
Meanwhile, The Tech Report is looking at the new Lian Li's TYR PC-X500 Enclosure. The TYR series initially caught our attention for its side-mounted drives and monolithic front panel. I've seen a lot of cases over the years, and I don't think I've ever felt quite as strong of a 'how does that work?' moment as when I first saw the X500.
Stanford University scientists have developed a new email system that figures out who messages are intended for. Semantic technology that understands phrases and relationships between words instead of simply recognizing typed characters can scour data bases and the Internet to track down intended email recipients.
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