Why "good enough" simply isn’t with laptops
This weekend The New York Times published its annual catalog of the Year in Ideas. One of them, Good Enough is the New Great, is a concept derived from a story in the August issue of Wired (The Good Enough Revolution), which noted that some of the most successful gadgets and applications of late are
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Why "good enough" simply isn’t with laptops
Acer’s all-new ultra-lightweight, ultraportable netbooks were designed to bring you the ultimate in mobile freedom. Combining all the simplicity, quality and ease of use you expect from Acer with everything you need to stay connected, chat and manage your life on the road, these Netbooks are set to change our expectations of simplicity on the move.We ship laptops worldwide. Phone orders are
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Acer Aspire One AOD250-1706 Red mini notebook, netbook. review
Acer, which last quarter overtook Dell to become the world’s second-largest PC manufacturer, is known as an aggressive company. So it’s little surprise that the company’s chairman, J.T. Wang, vowed this week that Acer would be first to release a netbook using Google’s Chrome OS sometime in the middle of next year.
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Will Chrome netbooks really be competitive?
The controversial regulations by the California Energy Commission (CEC), requiring all TVs sold in the state to meet new energy-efficiency standards, have mostly drawn the expected reactions, with energy-conservation advocates generally lining up behind the proposal and manufacturers opposing it. But the measure has also drawn some reactions that aren't necessarily predictable, and may point to an interesting and nuanced debate to come as the impact of the regulations, for California and the country, are assessed
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Some surprises as California adopts new TV power standards
One.Tel founder Jodee Rich this week said the “dark” years leading up to Wednesday’s victory in one of NSW’s largest ever civil cases had made him a stronger man. Eight years after the telco collapsed, and over two years since a NSW Supreme Court case launched by the corporate watchdog heard its last evidence, Justice Robert Austin delivered his 3,105-page judgement. But it took just one line to reveal the outcome for Rich and his fellow defendant, One.Tel finance director Mark Silbermann.
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One.Tel saga made Rich a stronger man
Contrary to an earlier ZDNet.com.au report, the National Broadband Network Company did not pay to retrieve the nbnco.com.au web address from the consultancy led by Chris Worrad. On Tuesday, ZDNet.com.au reported that that NBN Co had paid approximately $4000 for the domain name, which had been registered by the NBN Consulting company set up by Worrad in 2008, and that the consultancy was led by telco analyst Paul Budde. Both allegations were incorrect
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Correction: NBN Co didn’t pay for domain
Developers have long complained about Internet Explorer's lack of adherence to web standards as the below Google Sidewiki entry from the Microsoft home page details. This lack of standardization has affected consumer experiences as sites are forced to either dumb down their web sites to work adequately on all browsers or develop a separately designed site to work just with Internet Explorer
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We’d like your help as we prepare our annual report, on bundled telecom services —those packages of television, Internet and telephone service sold by cable, phone, and satellite-TV companies. Specifically, we’d like to know your experiences with, and some details about, your home telecom service. We’ve prepared a questionnaire that asks about how you get these services, whether they're bundled, and how easy or hard it was to sign up for them.
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Share your experiences with TV, Internet, and phone bundles
The company responsible for rolling out Sydney’s troubled Tcard system is $74 million in debt, a NSW parliamentary budget estimates committee has been told. The Public Transport Ticketing Corporation (PTTC), responsible for the introduction of the integrated ticketing system for Sydney, has also spent more than $5 million on legal fees in the past 12 months, the committee was told today. Opposition transport spokeswoman Gladys Berejiklian said the Tcard project had now cost the state government more than $100 million.
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NSW Tcard company $74m in debt
Daily Dispatches are a collection of interesting pieces of news regarding computers, electronics, and technology gathered from around the Web by Dirk Klingner, our technology trend watcher, and other staffers. If you have a hot tip, leave a comment below. Finding the laws that govern us ( Official Google Blog ) …Starting today, we're enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S.
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Daily Dispatch: Google offers legal research; Surgeons tweet in the OR
Samsung Behold II Usually successor phones bear a fairly close resemblance to their earlier namesakes. But the Samsung Behold II, $230, available Wednesday from T-Mobile, looks and behaves little like the first Behold . While that predecessor is an advanced phone with touch screen and a 4.9-megapixel camera with advanced controls, the Behold II is a smart phone , with a larger screen (3.2 in
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First Impressions: Samsung Behold II smart phone
Ladies, gentlemen, wordsmiths of all ages: Introducing the Word of the Year 2009—and by, extension, buzzword of the year?—as determined by the New Oxford American Dictionary: unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook. As in, “I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight. The word was chosen for its currency and potential longevity, according to Christine Lindberg, Oxford USA’s Senior Lexicographer.
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“Unfriend”: Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year
One way retailers can bump up their average sales ticket while still offering savings for their customers is through bundling, or offering savings when you buy several items—say, a TV bundled with a Blu-ray player or sound system —as an assembled package. Based on what we’ve seen so far, this is a tactic Walmart and some other retailers, such as Best Buy, will be using as part of their Black Friday strategies.
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Black Friday specials: Bundles of joy, or retail sales trick?
Telstra chief executive David Thodey today said that realism was needed on how many people would take up high speed services offered by the National Broadband Network (NBN) given that only 5 per cent of the telco’s home customers had taken up its fast ADSL2+ service. David Thodey at the Symposium (Credit: Suzanne Tindal/ZDNet.com.au) “Let’s be clear,” he said to an audience today at the annual Gartner Symposium in Sydney, “the demand is still latent.” “We offer quite a large number of high speed access technologies today and I think we would be lucky to have even at the home, with ADSL2+, 5 per cent of our customers maybe on 20Mbps,” he continued.
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Thodey: NBN speeds a hard sell
Qantas check-ins were thrown into disarray last night due to a problem with the system provided to it by travel system specialist Amadeus. (Qantas 747-300 image by planegeezer , CC2.0 ) The system went down at around 5pm in the afternoon, meaning that staff had to use manual procedures for check-in, causing delays of around an hour to domestic and international flights, according to a Qantas spokesperson. “There were extensive delays across our international and domestic networks,” the spokesperson said, adding, however, that there were no cancellations and all flights met curfew arrangements.
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Outsourced check-in fails Qantas
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) is tendering for a partner to integrate its Financial Support System (FSS) upgrade project into its new environment. The financial regulator’s environment intends to replace its revenue management information system (RMIS) with an Oracle enterprise taxation module and use PeopleSoft to replace its financial management information system (FMIS). Both RMIS and FMIS have been in use since 1998.
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ASIC after integration partner
More than a quarter of people surveyed believe Telstra will assume control of the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN). Despite the government having initially capped private investment in the company that will build and operate the NBN at 49 per cent, an Essential Research survey released this week showed 26 per cent of people believed Telstra would be in charge. The figure is only slightly less than the 27 per cent of respondents who think the government will run the NBN.
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25 per cent think Telstra will run NBN
The Tasmanian Government has put out a call to the information and communications technology industry for suggestions on how to best use the National Broadband Network and Digital Education Revolution for the students of the state. David Bartlett (Credit: Tasmanian Government) “We want to broaden our thinking on the benefits these initiatives can create by working with the ICT industry,” Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett said in a statement. The state’s Department of Education is asking its current hardware and software suppliers as well as the broader industry about potential technologies and services which will enable the NBN and new student computers to be as useful as possible
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Tasmania asks for help on NBN
The NBN Company’s funds, according to its first financial report filed several weeks ago with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, are being held with Westpac Banking Corporation. The sparse report was signed by NBN Co’s company secretary, Alisa Taylor, an associate of Canberra law firm, Meyer Vandenberg Lawyers, on 20 October 2009, and the company’s chief executive, Mike Quigley, on 2 September 2009. The operating result for the two-month period was a $139,329 deficit.
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NBN Co banks with Westpac
hi all, Ive been on thse forums looking to buy a new stereo amp and speakers but since saving up, im now feeling i may have to buy a new tv before its too late i bought an Acer AT3201W for 600 pounds from dabs 2 years ago, no longer has warranty and has been fine until recently none of the buttons will work on the tv or remote unless i switch it on and off at the plug, and this happens at random, and mostly when first turning it on im also noticing the picture is getting worse, eye movement is slower than normal on close ups and faces actually wobble as though one half of the screen was faster than the other i would of hoped that it would last longer but maybe its because i chose acer, at the time it seemed a good deal as equivalent tvs were around 1200 pounds is there a way i can fix this, has anyone else experienced similar and with a budget of 500 pounds can i get a tv that will last me a lot longer and being that prices have dropped since a tv that is around 37 to 42 inch
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is my acer tv about to die?