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  • Best fitness games

    20 Nov 2009 12:49 PM

    If you want to hire your game console as your new personal trainer, here are some of the best fitness titles to pick from.

  • Microsoft Office 2010 beta: First take

    20 Nov 2009 10:45 AM

    The beta for Microsoft Office 2010 is here and we've had a chance to check out the latest version. Though the changes are more incremental than they are major, there are some useful new enhancements worth noting in this revision.

  • Office 2010 beta gets LinkedIn

    19 Nov 2009 1:02 PM

    Microsoft has released a beta of Office 2010 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The beta integrates social network LinkedIn with Outlook, offers a stripped back Excel for browser editing, and video editing tools for PowerPoint.

  • Telstra boosts Melbourne cable to 100Mbps

    19 Nov 2009 1:09 PM

    Telstra has announced an upgrade to its HFC broadband network within Melbourne as well as its Velocity fibre-to-the-home network and will begin trailing a new TV set-top box.

  • Microsoft dabbles in hardware

    19 Nov 2009 4:11 PM

    Taking a page from arch-rival Apple, Microsoft has teamed up with hardware-maker Acer to deliver a Windows 7 laptop created to its specifications.

  • Digital Life #75: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

    19 Nov 2009 5:37 PM

    This week, we examine the new CNET Christmas Gift Guide and look at gaming and GPS, play the year's most controversial games and reveal the tech word of the year.

  • Cheaper, bigger OLEDs coming in 2010

    19 Nov 2009 5:17 PM

    After a slow start, OLED, the next major screen technology, is likely to see a boost with a handful of new models expected to trickle into the Australian market next year.

  • Print from your iPhone

    19 Nov 2009 10:40 AM

    Fancy printing while standing up? Sitting down? We're sure you could even print upside down with your iPhone using one of these apps.

  • Seven essential free software apps for a new PC

    18 Nov 2009 2:55 PM

    Once you get that new Windows 7 computer, here are the apps you need to install.

  • Dyson Air Multiplier unboxing

    18 Nov 2009 12:43 PM

    We unbox the Dyson Air Multiplier and give it a quick run through to see if this bladeless fan lives up to the hype.

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  • Combat of Giants: Dragons

    Younger gamers who are also obsessed with fire-breathing lizards will get a real kick out of Combat Of Giants: Dragons, but Nintendo doesn't need to worry about its Pokemon cash cow just yet.

  • TomTom iPhone car kit

    Featuring a built-in GPS receiver, microphone, speaker and charger, TomTom's iPhone car kit has certainly been a long time coming, but it's finally here.

  • Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2

    Lenovo's popular IdeaPad S10-2 netbook has been slimmed down and its price reduced, making it a better netbook — as long as you can live without ExpressCard.

    Specs: 160 GB, 1GB , Intel Atom , 6 hours