IPCC climate change report leaked by sceptic
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Alec Rawls, a US-based climate sceptic managed to volunteer as a reviewer of the latest IPCC report and promptly released it to the public. …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Alec Rawls, a US-based climate sceptic managed to volunteer as a reviewer of the latest IPCC report and promptly released it to the public. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Australia’s largest not-for-profit private health insurer, HCF, has launched its new-generation wellness portal, coinciding with a new survey commissioned by the company which it says shows Australians have become more proactive in managing their health. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Users of Over-the-top (OTT) mobile VOIP services are predicted to hit one billion by 2017 – or one in seven mobile subscribers – which one research firm says reflects a “dramatic shift” in how voice traffic is carried over the next five …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Security Data loss from mobile devices and solid state drives are expected to continue to drive high demand for data recovery services next year, just as the rise of mobile devices in the workplace and widespread adoption of virtualisation drove an increase in …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic The days of despairing that the bus hasn’t yet arrived, despite the timetable saying it should be here now, are finally over for anyone with an iOS or Android smartphone or tablet with a data connection. …
Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: Radioactive IT At the recent Electronic Arts APac Showcase we got some time with Crysis 3, including the new multiplayer mode, Hunter and a chat with Crytek producer Mike Read. …
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Mobility Although Sydney’s public buses have offered customers the ability to text a bus stop number to 0488 TXT BUS for a real time list of buses due within the next half hour, this information has finally been integrated into TripView, TripGo and …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Australia’s market-leading online accounting and business management solutions provider, MYOB, has teamed up with US-based global Application Programming Interface (API) company, Mashery, to develop and expand the market for MYOB’s AccountRightLive cloud-enabled accounting solution. …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Space Pointing and laughing at the December 21st hoax is easy. Even easier to point and laugh at the (supposed) grown ups who think it’s true. But what of the children who have heard the theories? …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic No, you don’t need to puff the magic dragon to get Adobe Flash content onto your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or non-Flash enabled Android, you just need the quite amazing Puffin browser, now in version 2.3.x! …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Compuware has been position by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis (IIPA) applications based on an evaluation of the company’s project and portfolio management solution Changepoint. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Global ICT solutions and service provider, Dimension Data, has released to the market a new network assessment service that it says helps organisations review traffic patterns, flows and volumes they have running across their networks, and also improves visibility to accelerate business …
Like every new Windows release, Windows 8 is more secure than the operating systems that came before it. That's due in large part to three major enhancements: An increased emphasis on UEFI Secure Boot optimizations, the extension of the SmartScreen Filter across the operating system, and the default inclusion of …
YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code, they are using Google's programming language Go. read more
Samsung Electronics has acquired Nvelo, a Silicon Valley vendor of products for caching data on flash-based SSDs (solid-state disks). read more
A high-flying startup that makes software enabling Android apps to run on PCs and Macs appears to be considering creating a version for Windows RT. read more
Well-known American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is joining Google. …
A new generation of free virtual assistant apps that are more powerful than Siri and Google Voice Search represent the future of human-machine interaction, and they are here now, writes columnist Mike Elgan. …
Планшетный компьютер iPad mini, который Apple представила 23 октября, поступил в официальную продажу в России. Магазины начали предлагать аппарат в 18:00. Поставщики установили на девайс разные цены. Например в “М.Видео” за iPad mini просят от 12990 рублей (модель с 16 Гб памяти) до 20990 рублей (модель с 64 Гб памяти). …
Если помните один из первых смартфонов на процессоре Intel Atom – Lava Xolo X900, в Индии выпустили смартфон Xolo A800, правда этот уже управляется ARM процессором. Коммуникатор обладает 4,5-дюймовым жидкокристаллическим емкостным ISP дисплеем с разрешением 960 × 540 точек, Гигагерцовым процессором с двумя вычислительными ядрами MediaTek MT6577, 8 гигабайтами встроенной флеш-памяти, адаптерами беспроводной …
Компания Nokia официально представила в Мексике смартфон начального уровня Lumia 505, работающий на мобильной платформе Windows Phone 7.8. Коммуникатор использует процессор с одним ядром и частотой 800 МГц и обладает 3,7-дюймовым дисплеем ClearBlack AMOLED с разрешением 800 × 480 точек, камерой с 8-мегапиксельной матрицей, всего 256 Мб оперативной памяти, что в данное время …
Прокуратура Великобритании решила не предъявлять никаких обвинений Гари Маккиннону, обвиняемому американскими правоохранительными органами во взломе компьютеров NASA и Пентагона. Шансы на обвинительный приговор суда “крайне невелики” заявили представители прокуратуры, объясняя свое решение по делу Маккиннона. …
Четыре основных англоязычных издателя – компании Macmillan, Simon&Schuster, HarperCollins и Hachette Book Group – в сотрудничестве с Apple согласовали с Европейской Комиссией обновленные условия ценообразования на электронные книги, продаваемые Apple в интернет-магазине iTunes. …
Издательство Sony объявило дату выхода игры Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time в Европе. Проект поступит в продажу 27 марта. Об этом сообщается в официальном блоге PlayStation. …
Kingston расширила линейку беспроводных накопителей для смартфонов и планшетов Wi-Drive. Теперь компания наряду с моделями на 32 и 64 Гбайта, предлагает внешний SSD емкостью 128 Гбайт. …
Российский онлайн-магазин iTunes составил чарты по итогам первой календарной недели своей работы. Данные предоставлены “Ленте.ру” российским отделением компании Apple. …