While most mobile networks promise coverage to a certain percentage of the population, the fact that some parts of Australia don’t have people means that there are huge blackspots. A new phone company – Indigo Telecom – promises coverage to 100 percent of the Aussie landmass by using satellites, but at an affordable price.
If our Google TV explanation wasn’t simple enough for your chestnut of a brain, let Google spell it out in simple terms via a two-minute-long YouTube video. It’s hardly in-depth, but at least your mum will understand.
Toshiba’s gone crazy with Intel’s latest Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, adding them to the Blu-ray playin’ Satellite A660, C650, L650 and L670. Sadly there’s no 13-inch options with the new chips, a decision Apple made with the MacBook Pros.
These aren’t the first touchscreen laptops Toshiba’s dished out, but the U500-1EX is the latest, and has some nice specs (4GB of DDR3 RAM, 320GB HDD) for its low price.
A source close to Austar has seen fit to send us some (as yet unconfirmed) details of the upcoming HD MyStar service in Australia. It sounds pretty decent…
The TubeSat lists one of its possible uses as Earth-from-space video imaging—very scientific, of course. But to me that means “Now you can spy on your hot neighbour Steve Jobs without leaving the comfort of your home!”
