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Wednesday, 13-April-2011 03:22:39 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Warcom have an open day this Friday to check out some of their networking and telephony goodies. You will be able to get a hands on experience with some of the latest and great VoIP products currently available in Australia.
There's another Humble Bundle available. You can support charity. Choose exactly how your purchase is divided: Between Frozenbyte, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or the Child's Play Charity. Also, if you like this deal, a tip to the Humble Bundle itself would be much appreciated! More info here.
Speaking of which, video game soundtracks will now be able to win Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy has revealed that it will put videogames on the same level as television and film by adding them to the descriptors of four awards. Prior to the change, games were lumped in with "other visual media" while movies and TV got top billing, which only helped to discourage videogame music from being submitted.
Apple have apparently ordered 12 petabytes for iTunes storage. And you thought YOUR mp3 collection was big, thanks David. Apple placed the order with Isilon Systems for videos on iTunes, according to StorageNewsletter.com. The information was attributed to an "inside source" at EMC, which announced its intention to acquire Isilon for $2.25 billion in late 2010.
Also on the impressive storage front, StorageReview checked out an enterprise SSD from LSI. With features like 300GB of SLC flash, six SF-1500 controllers, and a SATA6 533Mhz LSI RAID controller tying it all together, this card promises extremely high transfer speeds, extremely low latency, and an extremely high high price tag. LSI promises up to 1,400MB/s sustained throughput, .5 microsecond seek time, 240,000 4K read IOPS, and 200,000 4K IOPS for the low, low MSRP of $11,500 ($7700 street), which puts it firmly out of reach of most power users.
Intel have launched their Oak Trail tablet processor. The new microchip is smaller and uses less power than other models in its Atom range. Despite being the world's largest manufacturer of microprocessors, Intel has been largely pushed out of the growing tablet market.
Sony have settled their lawsuit against GeoHot, for jailbreaking the PS3. Sony dropped its jailbreaking lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz on Monday in exchange for promises the New Jersey hacker would never again tinker with the game console or any Sony product, records show.
Twitter has been banned from the Logies, thanks John. Invitations to the ceremony at Crown carry, in very small print, the words: ''Please note, mobiles will not be permitted. Your co-operation is appreciated.'' ''It is because of the tweeting,'' a Logies source confirmed yesterday. ''I think we saw the tweeting in the past as being a bit mean-spirited and felt it detracted from the evening.''
Today's timewaster is filler, from Sam.
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