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Thursday, 26-March-2009 16:37:10 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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It seems some ATM skimmers are being used in Melbourne. Yesterday, the ANZ bank reported more than $500,000 had been stolen from up to 5000 cards using a skimming device attached to an ANZ ATM for at least a month at the corner of Collins and Elizabeth streets in central Melbourne.
Apparently the latest leaked blacklist is close to the real thing, says Senator Conroy, thanks sid. “Does the [leaked blacklist] mean we are going to stop blocking access to the sites? No. People can continue to put up the lists if they are proud to do that,” Conroy said.
XbitLabs have a 13-way i7 Cooler roundup with a focus on overclocking. We are going to introduce to you a new cooler from Prolimatech and talk about the best cooling solutions and their performance on Intel Core i7 platform. Read our review including twelve products from Cooler Master, Noctua, Prolimatech, Scythe, ThermoLab, Thermalright, Thermaltake and Zalman.
Here's a mobile phone that looks fairly normal, until you notice the in-built shaver. As long as you give the battery can be full of electric shaving, and can also dial phone, dual sim card dual standby, listen to music, support Bluetooth and 8GB expansion. Oh, No, this is a cell phone. Mobile phone can also be a razor, it is amazed.
But you might want to avoid using it, what with killer SMS's doing the rounds. The extraordinary move by Egypt's health and interior ministries follows press reports that an SMS containing a special combination of numbers killed a man in the town of Mallawi south of Cairo.
One solution to a lack of network infrastructure in remote areas might be flying wireless hubs. A group of students from Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany, under the supervision of Professor Andreas Mitschele, are developing flying PCs that can go right over the top of an area of devastation, find a good place to land up high and create an ad-hoc network to get the lines of communication back.
PC Perspective looked at Windows 7 gaming performance. Does moving to Windows 7 beta mean a drop in PC gaming performance like it did with Vista or do Microsoft and the driver teams at AMD and NVIDIA have it all ironed out? We take you through gaming performance results on 7 graphics cards that totaled to more than 750 test runs.
Accelenation meanwhile examine what a GeForce GTX295 can do for an older PC. Well, not everyone can or wants to transfer their current system to a new one. However, they may be capable or willing to plug in a new graphics card with the hope it will let them play recent cutting-edge games. So will shoehorning in a monster like a GeForce GTX 295 card achieve this goal, or will the remaining system hold back the performance to such a degree that a card like this is pointless?
On a similar note, Tweaknews wonder if the economic collapse will bring back the computer tweaker mentality by forcing us to make the most of what we have. Recent trends dictate that consumers are spending money where it matters and sprucing up their computer rather than replacing it.
But this may all go away anyway, if we move to a model like OnLive, a cloud-based gaming service, thanks Phalanx. OnLive, a tech company that has been in self-described "stealth mode" development for seven years, has unveiled new technology that allows even the most complex PC games to be played on a television set or any PC. Some more thoughts on Engadget, and discussion here.
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