Christmas may be a time for giving, but if Optus were Santa Claus, the entire holiday season would suck worse than the Star Wars Christmas Special. This year as a.gift to its ‘yes’ Timeless and capped plan customers, Optus sent a special Christmas Eve SMS message announcing that they would be charging international calling rates for calls made to Australian GSM numbers that diverted to international calls using VoIP. As a backgrounder, there are several services that allow you to call a local Australian mobile number, who then divert your calls over the internet to an overseas location, meaning you can make international calls cheaply from your mobile.
Cisco doesn’t want to just cater to your IT guy anymore—they’re jumping into the consumer space at CES with three new streamy products: a video streamer, a streaming audio system, and Telepresence, a videoconferencing system.
Hot on the heels of the news that SMS messages cost networks practically nothing to send comes a Telstra press release that they’re expecting Australians to send up to 76 million texts during the New Years celebration. Now, I’m no mathematician, but at roughly 30 25 cents per SMS message, that equates to a crapload of money. What’s more, they expect customers to send around 600,000 MMS messages as well, and we all know how expensive they can be.
I appreciate the originality of a chair that massages your back with the vibrations from harp music, but there are a couple glaring reasons why this thing isn’t worth $US7000.
Set to debut at CES 2009, Flexicord HDMI cable with its patented Memory Cord Technology is poised to help consumers solve the problem of finding the right cable length to hook up their gear.
We’re not gonna have to wait until CES to see what TVs Samsung’s got up its sleeves for 2009, since AVForums has revealed everything in store:
While HDMI may be the greatest home theatre connection known to Man, there can be instances when it comes unplugged accidentally. The universal hd EZ lock was designed to prevent such travesties.
Just days after preliminary data gathered in the largest mobile phone cancer study thoroughly depressed us, a new study claims that exposure causes red blood cells to leak hemoglobin—leading to kidney stones and heart disease.
The robust update Blu-ray’s BD+ copy protection that was gonna take three months to crack was just busted by Slysoft, months ahead of schedule. Wanna guess what’s gonna happen to the next BD+ update? [Inquirer]
Tech-On got out their tiny non-standard screwdrivers and tweezers and took apart an Optoma PK101 projector, revealing an engineering miracle–the components necessary to squeeze a DLP projector into your shirt pocket.
