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Mac users are wondering why people would want to by Microsoft Windows Vista is now usable on Intel-based Apple computers, Now that a new piece of software called Boot Camp has been released.

Boot Camp still in Beta lets users with Intel-based Macs install Windows alongside Mac OS X. Apple says that the new Mac OS X, Leopard will contain a fully-fledged version of Boot Camp.

Yahoo is offering currently 1 gigabyte for its free mail service and 2GB for its premium fee-based service but its competitors Gmail offers more than 2.5GB of storage, and Windows Live Hotmail offers 2GB for free. This has Yahoo rethinking its email storage for customers.

Yahoo has over 250 million users and its Yahoo Mail service is the largest global e-mail provider. But Yahoo has decided to roll out globally in May 2007 unlimited storage space for email for their customers.

Last year Dell conducted a survey asking customers and prospective customers if they would machines with linux installed they apparently received 100,000 responses and more than 70 percent of the respondents said they would want a Dell PC with Linux for both home and office use.

This has one of the worlds largest internet sales based PC manaufacturers buzzing and Dell has announcement of plans to pre-install and support Linux could encourage more widespread use of Linux PCs by small businesses as well as home consumers.

Microsoft Released a new web browser for mobile computers or mobile phones last week aimed at making surfing the Internet on wireless devices as convenient and feature-rich as browsing on a PC.

Not yet commercially available the product is code-named Deepfish and Microsoft have a preview of the technology is available at their website. Microsoft's Live Labs Web site.

Microsoft is interested in making the browsing experience on mobile devices much more easy and pleasurable for internet users.

Optus will be installing a High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) standard which Optus's rivals Telstra and Hutchison (which operates the "3" brand) have already adopted for their own networks. Vodafone, which shares Optus's network, is also on the same path.

The Telco says that the new HSDPA will cover 55 percent of the Australian population and plans to expand the reach to 96 percent over the next three years from June 2007.

This should allow customers of the telco to experience download speeds between 500Kbps to 1.5Mbps and a possible maximum of 3.6Mbps. Currently customers only receive speeds of up to 384Kbps.

Optus is exploring the cause of mysterious fault in its network, which allowed some customers to hear the content of other peoples phone calls.

It was suggested that the fault was limited to the Optus pre-paid mobile service, however, since there is really no real difference to the network these customers subscribe to it apparent has been appearing across their GSM network.

Reports of the fault first appeared in detail on the Whirlpool website..

Some phone customers had to demonstrate the issue to Optus before the company would look into the problem, this is fair enough as telecommunications companies get numerous calls from users asking them to look into issues which often are user error.

UK Police & London Underground officials have taken a very dim view of the stunt and asked police to find and caution the man who placed on youtube a video of him skiing down a 30 foot escalator. Police also fear world wide copycat attempts of the video and hope no one will replicate it as there is a serious concern of injury. The youtube video has been viewed over 120,000 times on YouTube.

Police around the world have managed to prosecute numberous idiots that have conducted stunts such as speeding in cars and filming their speedo speed to base jumpers recording their jumps. All by downloading the video evidence handed to them on a plate by the perpetrators uploading the videos to youtube.

Apparently, a nine year old child in Florida learnt that you don't mess with ATMs after getting her hand caught in an Orange County cash machine. The machine in a shopping centre has been dubbed the Orange County carnivore cash machine

You can view a chilling video report online (http://www.wsmv.com/video/11253025/detail.html). Apparently it was a four-hour terror ordeal as firefighters battled to free her hand from the machine.

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Robert Adler, a US inventor best known for the creation of the couch potato's dream device, the TV remote control, has died at the age of 93.

He received an Emmy award in 1997 for the 1956 invention jointly with fellow engineer Eugene Polley.

Adler earned more than 180 US patents throughout his 58-year career.

His widow Ingrid said the remote was not his favourite invention, that he rarely watched television and was "more of a reader".

"He was a man who would dream in the night and wake up and say: 'I just solved a problem,'" she told the Associated Press news agency.

"He was always thinking science."

Adler began working for electronics corporation Zenith in 1941 and stayed at the company until a merger in 1999.

Zenith produced the first remote control device, attached to the TV by a cord, in 1950.

Later wireless devices communicated with the TV by flashing at photo cells in the TV, but these were affected by sunlight.

Adler's contribution was to create a device which used ultrasonic signals.

He was also known for his work on military communications equipment during World War II, and is considered a pioneer in surface acoustic wave technology, essential for modern-day TV sets.

Like baked Apples – How about a macbook?
Welcome to the next episode of The Laptop Infernos, a MacBook user has reported that his laptop came close to burning his house down after the battery exploded and burst into flames. The less than a year old MacBook, that was charging spontaneously ignited at about three in the morning while the user and his girlfriend were sleeping. (Check out the link for pics of the damage). It could spark another recall but I tend to think this is just an isolated incident

America survived the onslaught of Daylight Saving Time (DST) being introduced on Sunday 3 weeks a head of schedule. Concerns were issued when Microsoft announced that computers would need to download a patch to correct the time or the end user would have to change the clock themselves.

Information technology companies are realizing that the hardware they produce are contributing to the greenhouse effect by consuming great amounts of power. Its been recently documented that a computer server plus the air conditioning to keep it cool. This week one of the world’s largest computer manufacturers Hewlett Packard has announced it is moving to next level of Energy Star Compliance. HP has entered the market with these new PC’s and hardware a few steps ahead of the USA Environmental Protection Agency's deadline to implement new energy-efficient specs for PCs. The USA EPA announced a new Energy Star 4.0 hardware standard.
HP claims they are also offering along with the energy effiencient machines, "80 percent efficient" power supplies.

Security has always been Microsoft's biggest issue. Despite the wild claims that the new operating system Vista is much more secure than other operating systems. It appears the much anticipated Windows Live OneCare has been ranked at the bottom in a group of 17 anti-virus programmes.

According to security websites a number of tests put Windows Live OneCare lacking in the fight against thousands of worms, viruses, Trojan horses and other malware.

Adobe is working on an online version of its Photoshop image editing software, however, it appears it will not be the professional version of Photoshop. The tools proposed in the online version are targeted at the consumer market. With key market areas of people using social networking and media sharing sites.

There is also talk of an online version of premiere as well to assist budding Youtube fans edit and upload their videos easily.

Reports on the internet say that a Web site has posted a tool that can apparently crack Windows Vista's activation process by simply spending time calculating and trying codes to come up with valid product keys, circumventing one of Microsoft's most important antipiracy methods.

Microsoft said it is investigating the attack the latest revelation and will be attempting to correct the issue.

Vista's activation validates the license's product key which is a 25-character alphanumeric string. If Vista is not activated within 30 days of its first-time use, the operating system goes into a crippled state in which only the internet browser works for an hour at a time.