Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space An inventive plan by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student would spray paintball pellets onto a large asteroid that is headed toward a collision with Earth. Such a plan, according to its designer, would avert a pending collision with the asteroid …
Last week I was invited by Six Apart to attend a Movable Type conference in Manhattan. If you're not familiar with the software, Movable Type is a blogging platform turned CMS which was once a major player in the US market. After a lengthy toe-to-toe battle with WordPress, a battle …
Between new-product reviews, tutorials for a timesaving trick, posts from your favorite blogs, updates from the sites you have to follow for work, and—because everyone needs a break, right?—the latest YouTube meme, it can be hard to keep up with everything you want to read online. No wonder people clamor …
For me, it started with Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football. Listening to a radio broadcast while the game was televised was fun and the two broadcasts meshed nicely. But nowadays, it's difficult to get that experience because of the lag between radio and TV broadcasts. Enter SportsSynch ($15, thirty-day free …
Between Apple’s presentation at its Tuesday press event, the press releases and spec sheets that followed, and our all-too-brief hands-on session, we’ve been able to get a pretty good first impression of the new iPad mini and, to a lesser extent, the fourth-generation iPad. So while we wait for our …
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The computer industry and the customers it serves have proven to be extraordinarily slippery during the past 45 years. read more
You know the old saying, "Look before you leap"? Let's give that a modern-day twist: Look before you click. read more
Is the Apple iPad Mini the right tablet for business? Perhaps. It depends on whether you're in the market for a tablet in general, or if you're really only in the market for an iPad. read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook came to Tuesday's media event armed with numbers–a lot of them–to demonstrate his company's continued dominance. The biggest number? In the month since its release, iOS 6 has been downloaded to more than 200 million devices. read more
Amazon's Kindle line of tablets is more reminiscent of Apple's iPad lineup than other Android devices – with everything from the hardware to the app store controlled by a single company. read more
Soon, we will reach a time where pictures are as easy to take as they are not to take, and they will be infinitely disposable. When that happens, says Mike Elgan, the default mode for most cameras will be to never stop taking pictures. …
Lessons from 9/11 have helped ensure the financial services sector in New York and New Jersey is prepared for disasters, and even shortened the time to recover when regional events happen. …
Written by: David Swan | Published in: Home IT Hardcore Apple fanatics have a unique opportunity to really show their appreciation for the tech giant, with an auction offering up one of the world’s rarest computers. …
Featured | Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Technology The ANZ bank has announced a $274 million pre-tax write-off of internally generated software assets after an internal review of its technology operations. …
Featured | Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: C Level At its US Symposium Gartner has highlighted its top ten technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organisations in 2013. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Strategy Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a comprehensive portfolio of products to help mobile operators meet the challenges of deploying the huge numbers of small base stations that will be needed in urban areas to meet anticipated traffic demands. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Technology The telematics and consumer electronics sectors are rapidly becoming the two anchor industries for the M2M (Machine to Machine) market, challenging the position of smart metering. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Market A major study for non-profit the Internet Society explores impact of increased demand for new Internet services on the growth of the developing world. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Security The growth in Android malware should be taken into consideration when accommodating BYOD. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Market VoIP services are not about to replace traditional telephony, but they will have a severe adverse effect on telcos’ revenues over the next decade. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Regulation The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has fined Tiger Airways $110,000 for failing to unsubscribe customers from marketing emails. …
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic There seems to be a lot of commotion that a sub US $300 price for the iPad Mini wasn’t reached, costing US $329 or AUD $369 instead, but despite some hysterical claims the iPad Mini is overpriced at US $329, it’s …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Security To help IT departments cope with the variable environment generated by BYOD and virtualisation, McAfee Asset Manager has been added to McAfee Vulnerability Manager. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Security An agreement between Westinghouse Electric Company and McAfee will see the former provide McAfee Enterprise Security Manager and Network Intrusion Protection to new and existing nuclear power plants. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Security McAfee senior vice president and global CTO Michael Fay used the day two keynote session at the Focus 12 conference to promote the company’s Security Connected platform. …