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  • Ozisoft becomes Infogrames Australia

    French games publishing powerhouse has upped its stake of the Australian games market by buying the remaining share of Australian games distributor Ozisoft from Sega and assorted share holders.

  • Sex in a box: The Australian launch of Xbox

    Microsoft's consumer electronics vanguard was given a midnight launch, with hundreds of slobbering fans clamouring to buy the first Xbox machines on sale in Australia.

  • 2001 - The year that was in Games

    This year was, for the most part, an exciting year for gamers. The PC gaming industry took a hit from the release of several newly-released consoles, and the best appears yet to come.

  • ATI revamps mobile Radeons

    AMD is looking to snag a bigger slice of the mobile graphics pie with a new series of ATI Mobility Radeon chips, called the HD4000 series.

  • Microsoft in 'trouble' as Bill Gates leaves

    A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June.

Features and Case Studies (5)

  • Future direction trapped in halt state

    Stephen Conroy's opus on the future direction of Australia's Digital Economy mainly curates existing success stories and government policies, and does little to demonstrate any form of roadmap to take the nation out of the Dark Ages.

  • Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality

    Ten years ago, Microsoft executives worried that an Internet platform could threaten Windows. The nightmare now has a name: Google.

  • Fighting for the right to swap

    Kazaa's chief lobbyist, Philip Corwin, says Hollywood is sparing no expense to squash P2P.

  • Broadband: Lessons from South Korea

    Connection speeds that Australians can only dream of are readily available to South Korean consumers and businesses -- thanks to government support for a massive infrastructure rollout.

  • Web-based collaboration: Creating the virtual environment

    Increasingly sophisticated Web-based collaborative environments are the result of the convergence of a number of different fields. They promise to revolutionise work, research and play.

Reviews (30)

  • A Portable Gaming Powerhouse

    Dell's feature-rich Inspiron 8100 favors speed and expandability over mobility and cost. Particularly since it packs a 1.13GHz Mobile Pentium III-M, the 8100 ranks high as a desktop replacement and a mobile gaming system. A stunning display and colourful palm rest inserts are merely the most visible of the 8100's many appealing features.

  • Asus W3V

    Asus' new W3V notebook aims to be a multimedia powerhouse with looks to match.

  • Sex in a box: The Australian launch of Xbox

    Microsoft's consumer electronics vanguard was given a midnight launch, with hundreds of slobbering fans clamouring to buy the first Xbox machines on sale in Australia.

  • MSI GT725

    MSI's GT725 is a bleeding fast laptop. There's a number of design and software concerns, however, the price alone allows most of these to be forgiven. If you need a powerful desktop replacement, consider the GT725.

  • Fujitsu LifeBook S6311

    The ideal notebook for road warriors who crave battery run time without skimping on specs, the S6311's weight and size also makes it a good student or home notebook, albeit an expensive one given the lack of grunt for anything other than work and the odd DVD.

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