Month: February 2008
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Telstra: ACCC is fighting to keep G9 in fibre race
The ACCC’s vision of Australia’s next-generation of broadband is designed to keep its rival G9 in the race to build a fibre-to-the node (FTTN) network and will sentence the country to a low speed future, according to Telstra. read more | digg story
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Fixed line broadband under threat from wireless
Mobile broadband is fast approaching the point globally where it is becoming a credible threat to residential fixed-line broadband services. This is the view of a European based telecommunications analyst firm. read more | digg story
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Lenovo Laptops to ship with embedded Ericsson HSPA
Lenovo has become the first announced customer for Ericsson’s HSPA module, which includes a GPS receiver, and will start offering laptops with this embedded later this year. read more | digg story
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NVIDIA snaps up physics processing company Ageia
NVIDIA announced its intent to buy physics processor company Ageia today and indicated it plans to adopt the company’s PhysX processor for use in next-generation GPUs. Given Intel’s recent decision to acquire Havok, physics seems to be the arena in which the next-generation of performance battles will take place. read more | digg story
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Official: 16GB iPhone available and 32GB iPod touch, $499
Out of the rumor mill comes the 16GB iPhone, now official. Ever since the 16GB iPod touch was announced in September, we all knew it was just a matter of time until Apple could bung the same NAND chip into their chubbier iPhone. The Surprise is a new 32GB iPod touch for the same $499.…
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Autosalon Industrie Racing – Drift Nissan 200sx
A thread from Turboculture.com about Team Autosalon Industrie Racing from Australia at the D1 Grand Prix USA Competition / D1 Grand Prix World Championship at Irwindale Speedway, CA on Nov 24th ’07 read more | digg story
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Review: The Lotus 2-Eleven Super Sports Car
HETHEL, England — The Lotus 2-Eleven is $80,000 of race car so singular in purpose and flawless in execution that it can make your grandmother look like Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton. Almost. read more | digg story
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Record 22 million tune into V8 Supercar Championship Series
V8 Supercars Australia is looking to build on the record 22 million television viewers of 2007 – up from 17.5 million on the previous season – during this year’s Championship Series. read more | digg story
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New era begins for the Holden Racing Team
A new driver, matching new cars, a striking new livery and a major new sponsor mark the Holden Racing Team’s fresh approach to the 2008 V8 Supercar season. read more | digg story
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SP Tools to go racing with SBR in ‘08
SP Tools and Stone Brothers Racing today announced a new partnership which will see SP Tools as the naming-rights sponsor of SBR’s number-nine BF Ford Falcon in 2008. read more | digg story