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It's personal - Sep 18, 2009

Blogs My cousin's family moved to Australia 15 years ago, and since then we've stayed in touch first by letters and telephone, before moving to emails, instant messaging and beyond. In the ... Read story »

Microsoft's free security software to be released soon - Sep 22, 2009

Crave Microsoft plans to release the final version of its free antivirus software soon, according to a note sent to testers late Sunday. "The final version of Microsoft Security Essentials will be ... Read story »

Palm releases new WebOS update for the Pre - Sep 29, 2009

Crave On Monday, Palm set free its latest WebOS update for the Palm Pre, bringing quite a number of new features to the smartphone and addresses several security issues. If you haven't ... Read story »

Facebook ban in the City of London - Oct 13, 2009

Blogs While sifting through the hundreds of headlines at work today, I couldn't help but notice this particularly interesting article from the Telegraph, which reports that over two-thirds of businesses in the City of ... Read story »

Of minimizing the awkward social "face" issue - Oct 14, 2009

Blogs Recently, on one of my coffee-hunting trips along a deserted lane through Melbourne City, I had a rather peculiar debate with a friend who was furthering her studies here as well, ... Read story »

The painful path from XP to 7 - Oct 20, 2009

Crave Many of you did not upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista, but are planning to upgrade to Windows 7. How dare you leave the Microsoft upgrade path? As a punishment, ... Read story »

XP Netbook owners' upgrade path to Windows 7 made easier - Oct 23, 2009

Crave After months of grappling with the issue of how to allow Windows XP Netbook owners to move to Windows 7, Microsoft is ready with its answer. Starting on Thursday, Microsoft is ... Read story »

Canon EOS 7D can show traces of earlier shot in burst mode - Oct 28, 2009

Crave Canon has warned that traces of one photograph taken with the company's new higher-end EOS 7D dSLR can sometimes be seen in the next. The Canon EOS 7D The good ... Read story »

Consumer LCD TV LED backlighting explained: Quick and dirty - Oct 28, 2009

Blogs A friend asked me about LED backlighting information and misinformation. Especially with some bad people publicizing the great lies about the greatness of Edgelit LED lighting. I just wanted to clear ... Read story »

Samsung Universal Print Driver: One driver to rule all laser printers - Nov 4, 2009

Crave Diagram describing the benefits of the Samsung Universal Print Driver. A typical issue for most tech administrators in offices is the hassle of having to install new drivers on individual ... Read story »

Microsoft hit with software sales ban in China - Nov 19, 2009

Blogs Microsoft is in hot water in China this week, after a court ruled that it infringed a Chinese company's intellectual property by including certain fonts in its operating systems. The ruling ... Read story »

Maxis IP Phone has arrived! - Nov 25, 2009

Blogs Maxis brought the IP Phone for testing. The phone has an Ethernet line plugged directly into my optical modem. So far, it's great. Works just like a regular phone. Has its ... Read story »

One-third of Internet users in India carry out digital transactions--good growth - Nov 30, 2009

Blogs Last week, Mr R Chandrasekhar, who happens to be Secretary of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in the Indian Government, made public some startling finds ... Read story »

When a dSLR lens and an iPhone meet - Dec 3, 2009

Crave The iPhone 3GS has a 3.2-megapixel fixed-lens camera and that seems to satisfy most users, but not Bhautik Joshi. The engineer with ILM Research took apart his Apple handset and ... Read story »

Google Chrome beta now available for Mac and Linux - Dec 9, 2009

Crave The beta version of Google Chrome for Mac and Linux has finally dropped. Both versions are free and ready for download. Some of the beta edition highlights include fixing speed and ... Read story »

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