Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Strategy Cisco and NXP Semiconductors have both taken equity in Adelaide based Cohda Wireless, a company that has developed leading edge wireless technology designed to enable motor vehicles to avoid collisions with others. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Regulation Communications Compliance – the independent body established under last year’s revision of the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Code to monitor telcos’ compliance with the code – has become fully operational following the appointment of an advisory committee. …
Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: Games Fashionably late to the 2012 party arrives Far Cry 3, but it is one of the best dressed partygoers on the island. …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open Source A few years ago, driven by the number of incidents at conferences that were offensive to women, the Australian national Linux conference adopted a code of conduct, This year, the LCA, scheduled to be held from January 28 to February 2, …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Networking The IEEE has approved a new version of the Wi-Fi standard – IEEE 802.11ad – for Wi-Fi operating at 60GHz, delivering throughput up to 7Gbps and able to seamlessly fallback to the current standard for Wi-Fi in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Mobility Lexar officials claim the company’s latest USB 3.0 flash drives provide up to 24 times faster data transfer than USB 2.0 models. …
Featured | Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Mobility A new series of microSDHC UHS-I memory cards from Lexar provide transfer speeds up to 90MBps, allowing uninterrupted capture of HD and 3D video. …
Featured | Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Mobility Sony has joined the big-screen bandwagon with its Xperia Z smartphone. The new Sony 4G handset features a 5in display. …
Written by: Lee-Martin Seymour | Published in: Sponsored Announcements The growth of Cloud adoption within the Australian enterprise is exponential. Mobility, Social Collaboration and Convergence are morphing from simple buzzwords into enterprise project titles. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Market No surprises that Apple remains the industry’s biggest company by market capitalisation. At the end of 2012 it was worth US$489 billion. And that’s after declining from a high of US$700 billion on 18 September. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Deals Global data centre operator and solutions provider, Digital Reality, has completed the acquisition of a 7,500 square metre Sydney data centre as part of its expansion in the Asia Pacific market. …
Featured | Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: Entertainment Veteran graphics card manufacturer Nvidia has announced a foray into the gaming console hardware market with Project SHIELD. The SHIELD will allow gamers instant access to Android market games and also stream more sophisticated big name gaming titles from their …
Американское диалектологическое общество назвало “хэштег” словом года. Лингвисты отметили, что в 2012 году хэштеги стали “повсеместным явлением в онлайн-беседах”. Голосование за слово года проводилось в 23-й раз; в прошлые года победу одерживали слова “оккупай” и “твит”. …
Сообщество MDK в соцсети “ВКонтакте” выпустило собственное приложение для iOS. В день выхода программа вошла в топ бесплатных приложений в App Store. Приложение MDK позволяет просматривать ленту обновлений, “лайкать” опубликованные изображения и оставлять к ним комментарии. …
Интернет-энциклопедия “Луркоморье” удалила статью “Самоубийство”, в которой в шутливой форме описывались способы совершить суицид. Адрес статьи попал в единый реестр сайтов, содержащих запрещенную к распространению в России информацию, следует из уведомления Роскомнадзора. …
Житель Кувейта приговорен к двум годам тюремного заключения за запись в твиттере, оскорбляющую, по мнению суда, главу государства – эмира Сабаха аль-Сабаха. Запись была опубликована в октябре 2012 года в микроблоге жителя Кувейта Рашида Салеха аль-Анзи, на который подписаны около 5,7 тысячи человек. …
Компания Acer является одним из крупных игроков на рынке планшетных ПК и регулярно представляет свои новые разработки в области мобильных гаджетов. Очередная новинка, модель Acer Iconia B1, вскоре будет представлена публике. Кстати, буквально на днях информация о новом планшетнике случайно попала на страницы официального сайта Acer. …
Intel has released a new, low-power Core processor for ultrabooks and pledged that touchscreen ultrabooks will be available for as low as US$599 by the end of the year. read more
Ford opened its voice-activated systems to programmers Monday with an application developer program for vehicles that it announced at the International CES. read more
За последние месяцы в Сети появилось множество слухов о запуске iRadio в 2013 году. Разговоры о новом сервисе для стриминга музыки от Apple продолжаются. …
The connected home is shaping up as a big theme at this year's International CES, but Netgear Chairman and CEO Patrick Lo thinks a lot of people are getting left out. read more
Information technology may thrive on the new, but it is heavily supported by a programming language more than 40 years old. read more
It might not be a household name in the U.S., but China’s Huawei sought to make a statement at CES in Las Vegas on Monday. …
Как стало известно, отныне компания Apple предлагает опцию Fusion Drive для всех новых iMac, включая даже самую минимальную конфигурацию 21,5-дюймовой модели. …
It might not be a household name in the U.S., but China's Huawei sought to make a statement at CES in Las Vegas on Monday. read more
Intel has announced plans to release its first quad-core Atom processor before the end of the year, as the company tries to capture a bigger share of the tablet market dominated today by ARM-based processors. read more