Monday, August 3, 2009 - Page 2

Woolworths Launches Its Own Mobile Network

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Remember back in February when we told you Woolies was planning on launching a MVNO off the back of Optus’ GSM network? Well, it launches today.


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of The Weekend

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Fusion Garage: Crunchpad’s Coming In November. Arrington: SHUT UP, YOU DICKS Oh, the irony. How entertaining…

PS3 Is Now 70 Percent Cheaper To Make, Could Mean Price Cuts Let’s hope so – I don’t think Sony can maintain momentum without them…

10 Gadgets That Make Nerds Comfortable On A Beach Well, that try to make us comfortable…

A Pack Of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion On The Cheap Oh Canada – is there anything you won’t claim?

Firefox Achieves One Billion Downloads, 31% Marketshare Let’s give them a round of applause, shall we?

Toyota Humanoid Robot Gives Asimo A Run For Its Money I for one welcome our new robot overlords…


Kinetic Phone Charger Concept Generates Juice With Jogging

The premise behind Lola Mensa’s Cargador De Celular is pretty simple: By the time you get back from a morning run, you’ll have enough power stored up to keep your mobile phone charged for the rest of the day.


Cars

Amphibious Hybrid Gives Paddle Boating Some Needed Machismo

As you can see from the picture, this is no ordinary paddle boat. In fact, when the exhilarating water fun is over, there’s no need to disembark. Just hit a switch and drive home.


Online

Archbishop Cautions Texting, Email Could Lead To Suicide

He stopped short of calling texting and social networks the devil’s playground, but nevertheless Archbishop Vincent Nichols warned us all in an interview today that these “dehumanising” practices can often lead to suicide.


Gaming

Xbox Live NXE Beta Reveals Smaller Game Install Sizes

Word from Kotaku is the Xbox Live NXE preview beta thing going on now features smaller game install sizes. Not one of the more exciting features, sure, but if you’re the type of gamer who enjoys seeing their games boot up a few second fast than usual it’s gravy. [Kotaku]


The Robot Uprising Will Begin With A Game Of Catch

Forget running humanoids, autonomous drones and the like. As this video demonstrates, our future robot masters will in fact disarm us with their lightning reflexes and squishy rubber balls. [YouTube via Geekologie]


Gadgets

IBM SNAzzy Knows Your Circle Of Friends Better Than You Do

That heavy breathing you hear on the phone sometimes? It’s IBM.


Software

Win Mobile 6.5 Final Build Demos Zune-like UI, Marketplace, Synching

Here’s a quick peek at the purported final build of Windows Mobile 6.5 (we call it “Windows Phone,” he says) running on an HTC Touch Diamond 2.


Toyota Humanoid Robot Gives Asimo A Run For Its Money