http://www.news.computer-deals.com.au News, Reviews and Deals Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:58:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en InfoWorld confirms that Dell will sell and support Windows XP to consumers beyond the June 30 Microsoft sales cutoff date that Microsoft reaffirmed today, after comments from CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday seemingly indicated it might reconsider that decision. Dell will take advantage of a licensing option in Vista Business and Vista ... http://www.news.computer-deals.com.au/2008/04/27/dell-to-offer-windows-xp-beyond-june-30-cutoff/ Although I don't expect a post-apocalyptic world where all land has been covered in water anytime soon, it's springtime here in the U.S., with its flower-bringing showers. And summer, with its accompanying water sports, is just around the corner. Which may leave you struggling to choose between leaving your iPod ... http://www.news.computer-deals.com.au/2008/04/27/ipod-case-roundup-waterworld-edition/ OTTAWA (Reuters) - Research in Motion shares fell about 4 percent on Friday after a Fortune.com story said that a high-speed wireless version of its BlackBerry smartphone for top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc is facing delays. The introduction has been pushed back as far as August from June, the story ... http://www.news.computer-deals.com.au/2008/04/27/3g-blackberry-faces-delay/ As Telstra prepares to close off its CDMA network at the end of the month amidst concerns over customer migration to Next G, industry observers have said that after the dust settles, the new network could hold promise for bush users. The Federal government gave Telstra the all-clear to close its ... http://www.news.computer-deals.com.au/2008/04/27/telstras-cdma-shutdown-no-gain-without-pain/ Apple has acknowledged it has problems with the video software used in the latest shipment of MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Early customers of the Penryn refresh of the Apple notebooks had complained of flickering images during a QuickTime video playback on MacBooks and MacBook Pros shipping with the latest version of ... http://www.news.computer-deals.com.au/2008/04/15/apple-to-fix-flickering-macbook-video-flaw/ World travelers can stay connected globally with Dell’s next-generation laptops that will support mobile broadband on multiple cellular networks. U.S.-based travelers who connect their laptops via EV-DO carrier networks (like Verizon Wireless or Sprint), will be able to connect via HSPA carrier networks (like Vodafone), a wireless standard commonly found in ... http://www.news.computer-deals.com.au/2008/04/01/dells-next-generation-dell-laptops/  At the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona this year Sony Ericsson announced two new CyberShot branded phones and in the process changed the CyberShot branding prefix from K (as in K850i) to C (C902). This left us wondering if the K prefix may get recycled to mean something new. If ... http://www.news.computer-deals.com.au/2008/04/01/sony-ericsson-k660i/ Mobile phones could represent a public-health time bomb akin to asbestos or smoking, according to a study by neurosurgeon Dr Vini G Khurana. During a 14-month-long study Khurana reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile-phone use in recent medical and scientific literature -- in addition to press and ... http://www.news.computer-deals.com.au/2008/04/01/mobile-phones-worse-than-smoking-neurosurgeon/ All of a sudden, customers in the U.S. are finding it a lot harder to track down an iPhone. A few weeks ago, New York iPhone shoppers noticed that Apple's Manhattan retail stores were running low on iPhones. Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, during an intermission in his three-part series on ... http://www.news.computer-deals.com.au/2008/04/01/us-iphone-shortage-reported-3g-model-soon/ Intel has set its technicians working on a new initiative that it hopes will get mobile devices piggybacking on other devices its user may come across, as well as making use of the increasing number of sensors -- such as cameras and GPS -- within the device itself. The terribly-named Carry ... http://www.news.computer-deals.com.au/2008/04/01/intel-reveals-its-vision-for-mobile-phone-evolution/