На этой неделе NEC представила в Японии ультрабук LaVie X 15.6 который, как утверждают в компании, является самым тонким в мире. Толщина новинки всего 12,8 мм, а максимальная толщина последней модели Apple MacBook Air аж 17 мм – компьютер действительно может носить гордое название самого тонкого ноутбука в мире. “Сердцем” лэптопа был …
Apple today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone 5 in China, just three days after its launch on December 14. “Customer response to iPhone 5 in China has been incredible, setting a new record with the best first weekend sales ever in China,” said Tim …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open Source WordCamp, a user-oriented conference devoted to the WordPress content management system, will be held in Melbourne on April 27 and 28, 2013. …
Featured | Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space The late Sally K. Ride, the first U.S. woman in space, has been honored with the naming of the lunar site where twin GRAIL spacecraft impacted on December 17, 2012. Before her death on July 23, 2012, Dr. Ride was …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Regulation ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has held its lottery draw for 1,930 new sponsored global top level domains (gTLDs). …
Featured | Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space Many fly-by-night websites are telling you the world will end on December 21, 2012, and not-so-surprisingly they are also trying to sell you worthless survival stuff. However, still other well-known websites are doing their best to calm fears with scientific …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Mobility Google’s official Maps app for the iPhone, which works on the iPod Touch and on the iPad as an iPhone app, has surpassed a whopping 10 million downloads in under the first 48 hours of its release. …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Energy The latest results from the LHC ATLAS Experiment suggest that there were two similar, yet quite different, particles buried in the data that was collected. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic If the end-of-the-world Mayan apocalypse is getting you down, why don’t you get into survival mode with some soothing retail therapy? …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market New generation Application Performance Management (APM) has evolved from an IT ‘toolkit’ to a C-DSuite imperative for business success, according to one global technology performance company. …
Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: Entertainment In this upcoming brutal reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise exploring the question of just how heroine Lara Croft gained her action survival skills. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Security Virtualising desktop applications in the data centre has significantly lagged web server virtualisation in the Australian market, but that is about to quickly change, according to a recent market survey. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Security Unified security and data loss prevention provider, Websense, has been named by analyst firm, IDC, as the security leader in its MarketScape web security products report. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic A night out watching the movies at home could see you involuntarily starring in your own “Towering Inferno” epic, should you be watching via one of four dodgy Dick Smith-branded portable DVD/media players, now recalled for product safety. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Regulation The ACCC is certainly active just before the Christmas break. As well as delaying any decision of Telstra’s acquisition of Adam Internet (see separate story), it has also said that it will oppose the proposed acquisition by Carsales.com of assets associated with …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Regulation Some of Telstra’s competitors have said that its acquisition of Adam Internet will reduce competition in the market. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has released a “Statement of Issues” that seems to support that view, and has delayed approval of …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Entertainment Optus predicts a 78% peak increase in mobile data prior to Christmas. Its research reveals one in three Australians will give a digital gift for the holidays. …
Featured | Written by: Marcus Friedman | Published in: Mobility There is a Smartphone application for everything from restaurant reviews, entertaining games, online shopping; the list goes on. For those of us who are car fanatics or who want to avoid traffic jams and find the cheapest petrol, there is …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Technology The increasing adoption of mobility and cloud computing have stimulated the demand for mobile application platforms in Asia Pacific. Despite a slowing economy, this will continue in 2013. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Market Almost two-thirds of the handsets sold in China this year are powered by the Android OS: China is its largest single market, to the extent that a third of all Android devices sold in 2012 were sold in China. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic Nokia’s no longer the top o’ the cellphone tree when it comes to global sales of mobile phones, with Samsung taking the top stop not only in feature phone sales, but smartphone sales too. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Networking Telecom New Zealand will offer free landline to landline national calls nationwide on Christmas Day, and free Wi-Fi hotspots at popular holiday destinations over the holidays. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic If you hate those annoying, autoplaying video ads on various sites seemingly desperate for ad dollars, prepare not to be shocked by Facebook’s impending actions to bring video ads to your newsfeed. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Government Tech Policy ICT spending in the entire government sector in Australia is predicted to grow by a compound annual rate of around 2.7 percent in the four years to 2015, although the Federal Government is expected to be cautious in its spending …
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic The seekers sought iOS downloads, and found them they did, with over 1m downloads of Seek’s iPhone app, a doubling of Seek’s mobile traffic and more all working to Seek’s advantage. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Most industries will face massive changes during the period from 2013 through 2015, with the predicted changes forcing fundamental shifts in business processes that will further reshape those industries, according to the predictions for 2013 by one major industry analyst firm. …