Vocus to acquire Newcastle’s Ipera
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Deals Listed Australian carrier Vocus Communications has announced it will acquire Ipera Communications, a fibre and data centre operator in the Hunter region of NSW. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Deals Listed Australian carrier Vocus Communications has announced it will acquire Ipera Communications, a fibre and data centre operator in the Hunter region of NSW. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Entertainment The busy televisual beavers at Foxtel have certainly been busy this year, recently having added Foxtel Go iPad streaming for iQ customers, and now revamping its movie offerings with more high-def, ad-break free movies. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Mobility With the iPad mini once nothing more than an expectation and a rumour, there was some disappointment that its late 2012 arrival came without a Retina display, and while some think Retina’s not due until 2014, one piece of evidence …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Technology A boost in technology spending by insurers in the Asia Pacific region next year is expected to increase spending on technology by eight percent to around US$18.2 billion, pushed up by “aggressive” spending, particularly in China, India, Indonesia and Malaysia. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Melbourne-headquartered software and services company PelicanCorp and not-for-profit group, Dial Before You Dig, have launched a joint venture to introduce the Corridor Access Request (CAR) service to local government in Australia. …
Apple has the money, talent and resources to build a highly automated factory in the U.S. that turns out products that are potentially cost competitive with those it now makes in China. …
The U.S. Patent Office has delivered a ‘non-final’ rejection of a Verizon patent application for a controversial technology that would serve targeted ads to TV viewers based on what they’re doing or saying in front of their sets. …
An EMC executive said customers should have a sense of urgency about deploying IT as a service via a cloud infrastructure, but not everyone at the data storage company’s user forum agreed with him. …
Chinese networking vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE are competing unfairly in the European mobile infrastructure market, according to an analysis being circulated by the European Commission, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. read more
Cisco Systems plans to expand its services business over the next several years, seeing a more important role for itself in a world of connected machines and devices. read more
German consumer organizations are suing Facebook because the social network keeps sharing personal data with third-party app makers without getting explicit consent from users. …
Security researchers have identified a botnet controlled by its creators over the Tor anonymity network. It's likely that other botnet operators will adopt this approach, according to the team from vulnerability assessment and penetration testing firm Rapid7. …
IBM plans to issue fixes early next week for glitches that have hit Notes users who upgraded to the latest version of Google's Android OS. …
Apple’s iPad and iPad Mini took top honors in a pair of tablet battery shootouts conducted by consumer watchdogs in the U.S. and the U.K. …
Facing a trying economy and decreasing new license revenue, enterprise software vendors are turning to more frequent license audits to turn up missing revenue. read more
Middling reviews and limited distribution may be putting a damper on sales of Microsoft's Surface tablet, according to brokerage firm Detwiler Fenton. read more
iOSphere rumors make it Christmas every day: They are the gift that keeps on giving, no matter what time of year. read more
The iPad mini and the Google Nexus 7 aren’t the only 7-inch tablets on the market, but right now they’re the two that matter most: More buyers will be looking at those two models this holiday season than at any others, by a fair margin. read more
Activist and free software guru Richard Stallman on Friday hammered Ubuntu for including what he termed spyware in new versions of the popular open-source operating system and urged GNU and Linux users to avoid the distribution. read more
Even though sales of some mobile devices are booming, overall confidence in the tech sector continues to erode as economic weakness puts downward pressure on the computer market. read more
Android tablets, large or small, can't seem to match the battery life of the iPad. In a recent set of battery life tests, Apple's new iPad has the longest battery life among 10-inch tablets; in the 7-inch category, the iPad Mini comes out on top as well. read more
Сотовый оператор AT&T пополнила свой ассортимент мобильных устройств новым Android смартфоном LG E940. Коммуникатор LG E940 обладает большим Full HD дисплеем, точный размер не сообщается, с разрешением 1920 × 1080 точек. Среди других характеристик отмечается наличие процессора с четырьмя вычислительными ядрами Snapdragon S4 Pro и графического чипа Adreno 320. Новинка работает под управлением мобильной операционной …
Компания Stealth Computer добавила к своему ассортименту новый мини компьютер Stealth WPC-525F. Мини компьютер Stealth WPC-525F оптимизирован для тех, кто вынужден работать в трудных условиях, так как корпус устройства водонепроницаем. Сердцем новинки является процессор с двумя вычислительными ядрами Intel D525, работающий на тактовой частоте 1,8 Гигагерца; размер оперативной памяти стандарта DDR3 равен 4 Гигабайтам; …
HTC анонсировала свой Android смартфон J Batterfly еще в октябре, а сейчас компания сообщила о выходе интернациональной версии, которая получила кодовое имя HTC Butterfly, а в США он будет известен как HTC Droid DNA. Смартфон HTC Butterfly имеет такие же характеристики как Droid DNA и J Butterfly. Все три аппарата работают под управлением ОС …
Следственное управление СК по Карелии привлекло автора текста “Карелия устала от попов” Максима Ефимова в качестве обвиняемого по уголовному делу по части 1 статьи 282 УК и объявило его в федеральный розыск. Сам Ефимов в ноябре получил политическое убежище в Эстонии, но СК не может объявить его в международный розыск. …
Бывший главный редактор сайта об интернет-технологиях “Вебпланета” Алексей (“Леха”) Андреев представил новостной портал Webscience, задуманный как научный журнал. Сайт можно называть “студенческим”, отметил Андреев, а себя назвал “приглашенным лектором”. Webscience был запущен к 11-летию “Вебпланеты”. …