News junkies and people who just have a need to hear the news most times during the day can now access current affairs on their phones and it’s not just through the radio. The BigPond Live TV News was recently launched and provides a stream of news about politics, weather, finance, and of course, sports.

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There are so many feature-rich phones these days that it’s hard to decide which one to get. A tactic used by companies to sell is to encourage the development of application native to their device so that people would be encouraged to buy them. The perfect example would be, of course, Apple’s iPhone App Store.

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Have you ever wondered how the face of the internet changed for the last seven years? I was already blogging during that time, but I didn’t even know the word “blog.” Back in 2001, the iconic iPod and youtube meant nothing and Mr. Gadget Australia didn’t even exist.

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Online music stores keep popping up nowadays. A new entry is MusicHead MP3 online store that’s a joint venture between EMI Australia and 7digital. MusicHead MP3 is a download service that sells Digital Rights Management-free (DRM-free) MP3 music online.

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Australian company ExitReality launched an application that could render all web sites, not just ones especially designed for it, in 3D. If a page isn’t customized for the app, it’s shown as a street with pages as scrolling billboards and links as streetlamps or anything similar.

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Modern music shouldn’t be the only type of music freely available online nowadays. As someone who loves listening to classical music, Passionato would be able to fulfill my needs in that arena. Launched yesterday, the web site sells DRM-free classical music directly from its store.

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A few hours earlier, Google Chrome, the search engine giant’s own web browser beta-launched. I downloaded the installer as soon as it was available, and have been using it for the last few hours. Check out my initial reactions and experiences thus far after the jump.

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Google unveiled a surprise product yesterday—the Google Chrome open-source web browser. And, in a move that’s quite Google-like, the world first knew of this browser through an online comic book. According to the Google blog, since the company employees were always working on a browser, it only seemed natural to work on one.

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nike+

Hey, I hope you haven’t forgotten about the Nike+ Human Race 10K on August 31, 2008. If not, check our prior post about it, and maybe you can join participants in Melbourne where the event’s taking place. Speaking of Nike+, there are some alleged screenshots of its interface optimized for the Apple iPhone.

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Oh yes, better believe it. According to a press release by Telstra, the company is now offering DRM-free MP3 downloads through the BigPond Music Service. By being Digital Rights Management (DRM) free, this means the music you download could be played in most devices including all iPod models and Sony Walkmans.

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