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Entertainment

Two And A Half Plugs: The Art Of Subtle Tech Branding

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10:00AM September 30, 2011 | Alex Kidman

What do you do if you’re a major celebrity with a bunch of tech endorsement contracts that don’t quite line up with the advertising relationships implicit in the hit sitcom you’ve just signed up for? If you’re Ashton Kutcher, you try to subtly plug them anyway. More »


Gadgets

Aussies Are Paying Too Much For Tech

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8:00PM September 23, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Shock News! OK, not really. It’s a bit of a tired cliché to decry that we’re paying too much for our gadgets at retail (even though many of us are buying online anyway), but it looks as though something might actually be happening about it. Albeit only maybe, and only slowly. More »


Geek Out

The 5 Most Evil Things Tech Companies Helped Happen

9:30AM September 2, 2011 | Sam Biddle

If oppressive regimes want to stay oppressive, they need to fear — and wield — technology like a sword covered in napalm. And in most cases, they can’t do that without using outside help. Here are the five worst corporate collaborators in technology. More »


Online

MobileMe Users Get 25GB Free iCloud Storage Until June 2012

8:00AM August 8, 2011 | Jack Loftus

There are all sorts of goodies coming out of the iCloud developer build that arrived this weekend, the first being news that MobileMe customers transitioning to the service will receive 25GB of storage space once the service launches. More »


Geek Out

The Plane Of The Future Will Be Transparent, Bird-Like

4:12PM June 16, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Airbus looked ahead forty years and designed the perfect plane for its future customers. More »


Mobile

Confirmed: Australian Samsung Galaxy S II Not Getting NFC

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12:00PM May 23, 2011 | Nick Broughall

If you were hoping to future proof your phone purchase by grabbing an NFC-enables Samsung Galaxy S II, you’re officially out of luck. Samsung has just confirmed that the version of the phone launching in Australia is the non-NFC handset, making the dream of mobile phone payments at Woolworths a slightly more distant utopia. More »


Gadgets

NFC Coming To Australian Woolworths Stores

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3:15PM May 20, 2011 | Nick Broughall

If there’s ever been a reason to make sure your next phone has NFC built in, it’s the announcement today that Woolworths will be rolling out Visa PayWave across all its brands over the coming months. More »


Gadgets

13 Technologies That Need An Immediate Upgrade

11:20PM May 18, 2011 | Paul Escallier - MaximumPC

We’ve gotten complacent with many of our technological needs, simply putting up with what we have available now, even if it’s horribly dated. More »


Geek Out

"Man Will Pay The Price For His Pride If He Believes Technology Can Give Him The Powers Of God."

7:00AM April 18, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Earlier this month it was the Internet making people into Satanists. This week it’s technology in general that’s the problem. We’re becoming too god-like, see, and the Pope has predicted eternal damnation for the lot of us if we continue. More »


Mobile

The World’s Fasted Hands Free Typer Is A Quadriplegic

9:00AM February 6, 2011 | Casey Chan

This is so cool. Hank Torres is paralysed from the shoulder down but with the use of Swype and a head tracking device he was able to set the Guinness World Record for fastest hands free typing. More »