Home-grown miniNAV system hits Fringe phones
Four years after it was developed, miniNAV navigation and event planner software is making its second mobile phone-based debut at Adelaide's annual arts festival, Fringe.
Stories by Jeanne-Vida Douglas
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Programmable remotes to control automation
The high cost of large-scale home automation is out of reach for most Australians. But programmable all-in-one remote controls from companies such as Logitech, Harmony, Marantz and Philips are making it possible to control, and even automate, multiple devices from a central source.
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Long way home for standards-based technology
Proprietary home automation systems such as AMX and Crestron will ultimately be superceded by standards-based wireless connectivity. However, digital home entertainment networks will continue to struggle while the industry attempts to establish these standards.
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Telstra launches movies-on-demand service
Almost a month ahead of schedule, Telstra BigPond has launched Australia's first nationwide movies-on-demand service at an inner city Sydney cinema.
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Toshiba tackles convergence on multiple fronts
Toshiba hit the digital entertainment market this week with the promise of a new HD DVD standard, retail support and a slew of new convergent products including MP3 players, projectors and a high-definition entertainment Qosmio laptop.
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Full colour bracket - Laser printers taking the town by storm
Very occasionally the planets circling the sun in our solar system simultaneously cross paths and appear to align. On May 5, 2000, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and the Moon did just that and appeared to line up across the night sky, sparking predictions of mass floods, violent seismic activity and general bedlam on earth.
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Standards key to home market progress
The lack of standards and interoperability is holding up growth in the market for home entertainment networks, according to international vendors and local manufacturers.
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Seven partners with Yahoo on digital content portal
In a move destined to boost the availability of locally produced digital content, search engine behemoth, Yahoo, has joined forces with the Seven Network to launch a joint venture and digital entertainment portal, Yahoo7.
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Packing it all away
In a perfect world, email inboxes would be no more than a megabyte, important attachments would be immediately archived in an appropriate location and there wouldn't be a copy of the 'sexiest swimwear 2006' PowerPoint presentation on just about every company computer.
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Good things come in small packages
It doesn't matter how you pitch it, the idea of paying up to a $2000 extra for a portable computer that is less powerful continues to grate.
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Forrester: Networking and streaming not home yet
The digital entertainment industry is loosing out on $3.8 billion in the US market alone, according to the research released last week by IT research group, Forrester.
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Fast Track to High-speed wireless
In September 2003, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced plans to develop a standard that would raise the effective throughput of wireless local area networks (WLANs) to at least 100Mbps.
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Rental outfits tap into changing DVD habits
As DVD sales through mass retailers start to flatten, online DVD rental outfits BigPond Movies and ASX-listed Quickflix are racing to launch movie download services by March.
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Intel's Viiv launched in Las Vegas
Although it won't hit Australian reseller shelves until March, Intel's new digital entertainment platform Viiv (rhymes with alive) is already gracing the back rooms of a number of local manufacturers.
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Summer special: Free iceTV
In a bid to promote its digital TV program guide, the creators of iceTV (http://www.icetv.com.au/) software have released a free desktop widget for both windows and Mac operating systems.
