Компания Apple официально представила свой смартфон шестого поколения – iPhone 5, корпус которого сделан из прочного стекла и алюминия, а его толщина на 18% меньше чем у iPhone 4S и равна 7,6 мм. iPhone 5 оснащен 4-дюймовым дисплеем Retina и поддерживает разрешение 1136 × 640 точек, а это значит, что теперь …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Government Tech Policy Today is R U OK Day. But it’s easy to treat it as confined to the physical world. It’s not. We need to ask R U OK in cyberspace too. …
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Biology Researchers have made deaf gerbils able to hear again after implanting into them human stem cells. Although in the early stages of research, this could be an important step in returning hearing loss to humans. …
Власти Афганистана приказали заблокировать видеохостинг YouTube на неопределенный срок, чтобы предотвратить просмотр жителями антиисламского фильма “Невинность ислама”. 12 сентября Афганистан блокировал YouTube на полтора часа. Фильм “Невинность ислама” вызвал акции протеста в исламских странах. …
Полиция Нью-Йорка ликвидировала две уличные банды из-за привычки их участников хвастаться совершенными преступлениями и рассылать “черные метки” своим противникам в сети Facebook. Две группировки гангстеров три года вели войну за контроль над территорией в районе Бруклин. …
Компания Apple закроет музыкальную социальную сеть Ping 30 сентября, сообщается в обновленном приложении iTunes. Ping работает только в этом приложении и позволяет обмениваться сообщениями с друзьями и узнавать об их музыкальных предпочтениях. Соцсеть представил в сентябре 2011 года Стив Джобс. …
Уполномоченный бундестага по защите личных данных граждан Петер Шар не смог проверить возможности шпионской компьютерной программы “бундестроян”, которой пользуется уголовная полиция. Компания-производитель отказалась предоставить код, а у полицейских его и вовсе не оказалось. …
Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: Mobility OnAir has gained authorisation to allow travellers on Emirates Airlines A380 to Facebook as much as they like whilst within Australian airspace. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Development Start-up social commerce technology developer, Peeractive, has become the first Australian company to be selected to participate in the DreamIt accelerator program in the United States. …
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Technology Australia might have emerged at the top of the global pile when it comes to mobile application testing – but it’s faint praise, because still only two out of five local organisations perform any testing on their mobile applications before unleashing them …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Deals Australian and New Zealand recruitment and talent management firm, Hudson, has successfully deployed the TalentEdge system from Infosys to streamline payroll and billing for its clients, including more than 2,000 temporary and contract staff, and to handle payroll for its own 600 …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Mobility Apple’s iPhone 5 has launched at last, matching most of the leaked rumours over the last 6 months, but the wait continues for in-store availability due in Australia and 8 other countries from September 21 and another 22 countries from …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Silicon Valley-based data storage company, Nimble Storage, has set up its Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Australia and appointed three local senior industry executives to head up its APAC and Australian operation. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Networking Brocade has released a new high end ethernet fabric switch the VDX 8770 along with enhancements to its VCS Fabric technology designed for highly virtualised data centre environments and to enable the creation of greatly simplified data centre networks. …
Featured | Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: Entertainment The Australian Government has released the standalone Guidelines for the Classification of Computer Games which now includes the long awaited R18+ Classification. …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open Source Organising a conference is hard work. That’s one reason why there are as yet no formal bids to host the Australian national Linux conference in 2014. …
Featured | Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Technology One-third of the Australian economy faces imminent and substantial disruption by digital technologies and business models, according to a new report from consultancy Deloitte Australia. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Strategy Alcatel-Lucent is facilitating the incorporation of revenue generating applications into telecommunications networks and other infrastructure with the launch of an open source software engine designed to enable companies to more effectively manage the APIs to their cloud platforms, telecommunications networks and enterprise …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Technology Video technology company Ooyala – which will support Telstra’s online video services and of which Telstra is a shareholder – has released a number of new products designed to help its customers better monetise their video content. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Unified communications vendor, Polycom, has launched four new adoption services which it says are aimed at making video collaboration ubiquitous in the workplace, and designed to help enterprises rapidly accelerate user adoption and return on investment in RealPresence video solutions. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Small to medium sized business in Australia apparently have little understanding of cloud computing, and many are not using it, although MYOB indicates that research among SMEs reveals that those who are using the cloud are much more likely to experience positive …
Featured | Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space The NASA Curiosity rover has taken what is considered the clearest image of the surface of Mars ever taken. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Mobility Paragon Software’s NTFS and HFS+ for Android gives Android devices the ability to read and write storage devices formatted as NTFS or HFS+. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Technology The Matrox MX02 Dock connects to a Thunderbolt port to provide USB 3.0, USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet and HDMI interfaces. The Matrox MX02 range of video hardware provides broadcast-quality input and output for use with major editing software, all in a portable …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Strategy Macquarie Telecom has become only the second cloud services provider after Telstra to gain certification for both SAP hosting and SAP cloud services. …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open Source Melbourne is one of many cities around the globe that will mark Software Freedom Day next Sunday, September 15. …