Торговое представительство США вновь отнесло социальную сеть “ВКонтакте” к числу пиратских ресурсов. В отчете ведомства говорится, что в соцсети продолжает работать музыкальный сервис, который российские суды считают пиратским. В пиратский список попал и торрент-трекер Rutracker.org. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Mobility Although companies like Amaysim, using the Optus network, truly brought the unlimited plan mindset and massive savings to “cap crap” weary and overcharged Aussies, Kogan’s using Telstra’s wholesale 3G network (that’s not as fast as Next G but part of …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Technology Contact centre analytics and capacity planning company Bay Bridge, which was acquired by Interactive Intelligence in August, is now selling its products in Australia. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Regulation Fewer consumers are complaining to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) about global roaming charges but a higher proportion are disputing bills of $5,000 or more. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Mobility The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman has released its quarterly report on complaints about telcos (see separate story). This time the TIO has published some handy hints on how to avoid high global roaming charges. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Technology The average amount of revenue per unit of data for telcos is halving every year, and will converge towards zero within five to ten years. That means carriers need to find new ways of charging for data, based on concepts other than …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Public cloud computing company, Ninefold, has had success with support through its PushStart community partnership, for one of its latest start-ups, travel company Arribaa, assisting the company to achieve 160 percent growth every month for the last four months. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Mobility The news that Android has overtaken Apple’s iOS in Australia is testimony to Android’s ongoing evolution, its app store success, with several brands competing to offer market leading new models and outdo each other on features and performance, sees Android …
Featured | Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space A new meteor shower may make its first appearance in December 2012. The source of the new shower is Comet Wirtanen. And, its first appearance may coincide with the Geminid meteor shower. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Security Businesses has been warned that security will be one of the biggest risks they confront in the coming year, and that Australia could see a ‘Code Red’ incident for at least one of the mobile device platforms in 2013. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: People The former Group CEO of Jetstar, Bruce Buchanan, has taken up a new role as Chief Executive of digital advertising business, Rocklive, founded two years ago by ex-Google senior executive Justin Viles and ex-Adconion sales director, Ben Voltz. …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Recruitment AVG research has found that recruiters are digging deeper and deeper into our social media habits to find reasons to NOT interview candidates. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Recruitment Australian IT jobs and recruitment firm, Paxus, has been sold by its American parent company, CSC, to South Africa’s largest employment services company, Adcorp, for US$73.5 million. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Entertainment Quickflix and Research In Motion have announced that the Quickflix digital service will be available through connected BlackBerry 10 OS L-Series, N-Series and new generation devices in the first quarter of 2013. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Regulation The ITU’s World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) ends in Doha today. After twelve days of attempting to reach a consensus, talks have collapsed. …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open Sauce It’s early days for secure boot, the new method that Microsoft is using to protect its desktop turf, but it would not be unfair to say that the company has succeeded in showing up the sharply fragmented nature of GNU/Linux. …
Featured | Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space NASA releases a video “Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday” early, before December 21, 2012, stating the reasons why the Earth wasn’t destroyed just because some doomsayers are implying the Mayan calendar ends on that day and “imagined calamities” will …
Featured | Written by: David Heath | Published in: Space Discovered only on the weekend, asteroid 2012 XE54 passed very close by the Earth on Tuesday. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic Google’s long awaited Maps app has arrived for iPhones at long last following Apple’s iOS Maps flap, and while iPads must wait a bit longer for a dedicated app, iPhone owners have Google Maps data restored into a native …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Space Well, that’s the novel theory proposed by three US-based physicists. Now they want to test it. …
Featured | Written by: David Heath | Published in: Security ‘Tis the season of prognostications for the year ahead in computer security. Here’s what the team from McAfee have to say. …
Written by: David M Williams | Published in: The Wired CIO With all the current fanfare about Windows 8 it may be easy to overlook the big brother of the new Redmond Operating System. Just as Windows 8 has hit the streets, so too Windows Server 2012 is live for …
Featured | Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Mobility Ericsson’s ConsumerLab has picked out 10 hot consumer trends for 2013. These include increasing reliance on cloud-based services and the ability to handle tasks anywhere anytime; what Ericsson calls “computing for a scattered mind”. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Government Tech Policy The NSW Government says it will make Sydney a “global magnet” for digital and ICT talent and pilot smart work hubs, and a global leader in the CT secotor, as part of its response to a high-level Industry Action Plan …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Security Cyber criminals are currently putting Australian small to medium businesses under severe attack, with many of them also the first SMBs in the Asia Pacific region to experience a new ransomware attack which tries to extort money from them. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Technology Macquarie Telecom will add a third data centre in Canberra to the two it currently operates in Sydney. data centre will open in the middle of 2013. …