Jul 11, 2010

Sony have taken the compact digital camera market and blown a very big hole in it. Traditionally, this market, aimed at those who wish their cameras to be just a simple point and shoot affair, has been populated with small, fashion accessories, most of which also happen to make perfectly good wallet-sized images. While some of them can actually take some fairly...

Jul 11, 2010

The new movie, Toy Story 3, recently started screening, and along with the movie came the game, Toy Story 3. As a prelude to these, the distributors also conducted a survey of families’ gaming habits and opinions, and the results included a number of surprises. Listen to our interview with Mark McKrindle, where we examine this survey and dissect the...

Jul 11, 2010

The Boston Globe reports that in the case of Boston Universtity student convicted of illegally downloading copyright material, the penalty initially handed down was excessive. In July of last year, Joel Tenenbaum was ordered to pay $675000 damages to four record labels for illegally downloading 30 songs and sharing them online. US District Court Judge Nancy...

Jul 11, 2010

It’s been a big week for the NBN, with the first customers (in Tassie) coming on line, and now they’ve also announced the first mainland locations that will be getting the benefit of their technology. So, if you are fortunate enough to live in places like Riverstone and Coffs Harbour in New South Wales; Gungahlin in the ACT; Victoria’s Bacchus...

Jul 11, 2010

Last week we covered the new flying car from Terrifugia. This week we have news of more of what we’ve seen in The Jetson’s possibly becoming a reality, with Logi AeroSpace revealing that they’re developing a rotary winged aircraft called the Tyrannos. This is designed to seat four, and will fly at up to 1000 ft. Apparently, it’s also...