Alex

Alex Kidman is a multi-award winning Australian technology writer, former editor at Gizmodo, CNET, GameSpot, ZDNet, PC Mag, APC, Finder and as a contributor to the ABC, SMH, AFR, Courier Mail, GadgetGuy, PC & Tech Authority, Atomic and many more. He's been writing professionally since 1998, and his passions include technology, social issues, education, retro gaming and professional wrestling.

iPad2 Cases, Android updates, PSN Woes & Phones With Extra Phugly

A busy week again trundles through. Let’s see where I can shamelessly promote myself, shall we? At CNET.com.au, I’ve pummelled another half-dozen iPad2 cases for your entertainment. Keyboards and Turtles abound. Best iPad 2 cases in Australia: “The word shell is apt; the back casing makes it look like the kind of iPad 2 the

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iMacs, Xooms, Atrixes and Mobile Broadband (Oh my…)

Would the proper plural of Atrix be Atrixes or Atrixii? It makes my brain hurt just thinking about it. In any case, yesterday’s launch of Motorola’s Xoom tablet and Atrix smartphone led to a 30 Seconds of Tech: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odAr3iBz8D8[/youtube] Just a couple of hours earlier, I also had the chance to check out Apple’s new

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Mono Printers And Potential Prime Time TV Plug

An interesting start to the week. First off, over at CNET, a monochrome multifunction laser printer: Fuji Xerox DocuPrint M205b: “Fuji Xerox’s inexpensive multifunction monochrome laser delivers pleasing printing results, but small businesses need to keep its lack of networking in mind.” OK, OK, mono lasers aren’t that thrilling, all things considered. The other, slightly

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You Start Me Up

At last — something that I’m pretty confident that I’d be better at than Mick Jagger: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUBkkPAa4HQ&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] In fact, I’ll go one better than that. I’m sure I’m better at Pinball than Mick Jagger. Utterly confident. And that calls for the laying down of bets. On the  highly, hugely impossible likelihood that one of Jagger’s

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