Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space A recently released video of the NASA Curiosity rover shows it deploying its heat shield and descending to a touchdown on Mars, while mission controllers monitor its progress, and applaud and shout as milestones are reached. …
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Technology Australia’s first-ever “Google Analytics User Conference”, which is being organised by two Google Analytics-certified partners (Loves Data and Internetrix), has just announced three top analytical Googlers are coming to keynote and compère the event, joining the already top-notch line-up of presenters. …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open Sauce The Australian government and the Opposition are operating as flunkeys of the US government by voting down a proposal from the Greens to open up the discussions on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. …
Featured | Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space The Curiosity science team voted, on August 22, 2012, to name the landing site of Curiosity the “Bradbury Landing” after late science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Mobility An update for TomTom’s navigation app for iPhone and iPad delivers the latest maps plus new features. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Technology The first update for Apple’s recently released Mountain Lion operating system has arrived, addressing a variety of issues. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Mobility Featuring a carbon fibre top cover, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is the world’s lightest 14in business ultrabook, company officials claimed. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Technology VMware Fusion 5, the latest version of the virtualisation software for OS X, is designed to take advantage of Mountain Lion and Windows 8. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Networking Telstra Global has launched an IP Exchange (IPX) designed support international roaming for voice and data traffic, to enable mobile operators to provide users with end-to-end SLAs across multiple networks and to support applications that they can offer to end users without …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Government Tech Policy The Greens in Australia, New Zealand and Canada have expressed “serious concern” at the “undemocratic and non-transparent nature” of the talks on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. …
Featured | Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Home IT Samsung this morning opened its first Australian store in Sydney’s George Street. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Mobility Samsung has followed up its Note small tablet/large smartphone with a 10in version. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: People IP specialist Allied Telesis has appointed James Burke as enterprise business development manager. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Technology The adoption of BMC’s FootPrints IT service management software has made a big difference to the IT support desk at broadcaster SBS – and other parts of the organisation have also put it to good use. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Smartphones are being snapped up by Aussie consumers in increasingly large numbers with predictions that ownership of the phones will rise to 65 percent of the population in five years, and virtually all mobile phones will have smartphone functionality built-in. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Listed Tech VoIP provider MyNetFone has reported a 205% increase in net profit after tax. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Strategy Perth-based CingleVue is the first Australian company to join Red Hat’s embedded partner program. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Deals Queensland’s Mater Health Services has used a system from global healthcare systems provider, InterSystems, to rapidly develop an eHealth record for expectant mothers. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Regulation The Australian and New Zealand Governments has issued a joint report into trans-Tasman roaming charges that canvasses a number of options designed to lead to lower charges. Not surprisingly it “finds telecommunication companies are making excessive profits from trans-Tasman mobile roaming charges.” …
Featured | Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: C Level Most people assume the cloud is more energy efficient than conventional processing. But there is no evidence for this. …
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Government Tech Policy Legislation passed in the Senate yesterday will allow Australia to be part of a growing international posse of nations saddling up to take on cyber criminals. …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open Source The Australian national Linux Conference has announced its first three mini-conferences for 2013 – and all are to do with cloud computing. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Deals Inomial, an Australian developer of web based billing, automation, accounting and network monitoring software for telcos, says that Internode has deployed its Smile revenue system to support its recently launched NodeMobile SIM-only mobile service. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Security Security vendor Intego is warning Mac users of a new piece of commercial malware. …
Featured | Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Australia’s first digital postal service provider, Digital Post has launched its first private digital postbox in advance of a public rollout later this year, opening it up to an invitation-only group, including employees of the businesses that have already signed …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Cloud is changing the way applications are designed, tested and deployed, resulting in a significant shift in priorities in the global application development market which is predicted to grow worldwide to more than US$9 billion, and to reach A$153.4 million in Australia, …