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It looks to be a big year in information technology as we will see the launch in Australia of the new XBOX 360, Windows Vista and Apple leap into bed with Intel leaving poor old Motorola out in the cold and locked out of the desktop computer stakes, or will it???

An open source group seems to indicate that a new bunch of hardware guru’s and linux nuts might just get their heads together and keep the Motorola processor that apple purists so much loved because it was more faster than the intel Pentiums on the market.

Apple purists are singing ding dong the witch is dead to Microsoft’s media player as it has announced it is discontinuing any further development for the Apple Operating System. Whilst, general mac users are pretty dam annoyed about that as most of the good bits on video are in windows media format.

Broadband in Australia is set to explode and by 2008 dial up will be almost a thing of the past except farmers who will still be in a communications pickle as Telstra discovers that discontinuing the CDMA network leaves people more isolated.

In 2006 there will be a massive take up of 3G phones and technology as phone companies roll out more towers and many Australians grow second heads from the additional EMF floating around. The wide use of 3G technology will indeed bring a new range of ethical issues as well. Last year we say email issues when two legal secretaries were sacked after they got into an email flame war over who put what sandwich in what fridge on what floor of the building this email snow balled into a world wide fiasco, well with 3G phones having email that can send video and pictures it will be only a matter of time before someone gets the sack because they have emailed a video of something no one was supposed to see.

# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 8:17 PM