Time Magazine has named iPhone 5 its Gadget of the Year for 2012. The device is “one of the most artfully polished gadgets anyone’s ever built,” says Time’s Harry McCracken. He highlights the new thinner design and the camera’s “particularly well-done panorama mode.” McCracken concludes, “[W]hen it comes to melding …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Listed Tech Victoria has received a modest, pre-Christmas boost to jobs with the opening in Melbourne of the new Australian headquarters for online accounting software provider Xero. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Networking ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will draw 1900 new sponsored top level domains (TLDs) in a “prioritisation draw”, Tuesday Australian time. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: People Renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has joined Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing. …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open Source Organising Australia’s national Linux conference is hard work. At times, given the vagaries of the climate Down Under, the best laid plans of men go awry and there is double work – as there was in Brisbane 2011, when the floods …
Featured | Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space The Chinese (converted) deep-space probe Chang’e 2 flew by the asteroid Toutatis on December 13, 2012, and took a series of images of the celestial body. Only three other countries have made close encounters with asteroids. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Security Data loss from mobile devices and solid state drives are expected to continue to drive high demand for data recovery services next year, just as the rise of mobile devices in the workplace and widespread adoption of virtualisation drove an increase in …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Users of Over-the-top (OTT) mobile VOIP services are predicted to hit one billion by 2017 – or one in seven mobile subscribers – which one research firm says reflects a “dramatic shift” in how voice traffic is carried over the next five …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Australia’s largest not-for-profit private health insurer, HCF, has launched its new-generation wellness portal, coinciding with a new survey commissioned by the company which it says shows Australians have become more proactive in managing their health. …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Alec Rawls, a US-based climate sceptic managed to volunteer as a reviewer of the latest IPCC report and promptly released it to the public. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Government Tech Policy An unattractive slanging match has broken out between the Optus and Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy over his decision to take control of the “Digital Dividend” radio spectrum auction. Expect to hear more. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Regulation The 12th World Congress on IT (WCIT-12) in Dubai has ended in failure and acrimony as 80 mainly Western countries refused to sign a new treaty which would have subjected the Internet to the same sort of international control as conventional telecommunications. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic The days of despairing that the bus hasn’t yet arrived, despite the timetable saying it should be here now, are finally over for anyone with an iOS or Android smartphone or tablet with a data connection. …
Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: Radioactive IT At the recent Electronic Arts APac Showcase we got some time with Crysis 3, including the new multiplayer mode, Hunter and a chat with Crytek producer Mike Read. …
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Mobility Although Sydney’s public buses have offered customers the ability to text a bus stop number to 0488 TXT BUS for a real time list of buses due within the next half hour, this information has finally been integrated into TripView, TripGo and …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Australia’s market-leading online accounting and business management solutions provider, MYOB, has teamed up with US-based global Application Programming Interface (API) company, Mashery, to develop and expand the market for MYOB’s AccountRightLive cloud-enabled accounting solution. …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Space Pointing and laughing at the December 21st hoax is easy. Even easier to point and laugh at the (supposed) grown ups who think it’s true. But what of the children who have heard the theories? …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic No, you don’t need to puff the magic dragon to get Adobe Flash content onto your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or non-Flash enabled Android, you just need the quite amazing Puffin browser, now in version 2.3.x! …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Compuware has been position by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis (IIPA) applications based on an evaluation of the company’s project and portfolio management solution Changepoint. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Global ICT solutions and service provider, Dimension Data, has released to the market a new network assessment service that it says helps organisations review traffic patterns, flows and volumes they have running across their networks, and also improves visibility to accelerate business …
Like every new Windows release, Windows 8 is more secure than the operating systems that came before it. That's due in large part to three major enhancements: An increased emphasis on UEFI Secure Boot optimizations, the extension of the SmartScreen Filter across the operating system, and the default inclusion of …
A new generation of free virtual assistant apps that are more powerful than Siri and Google Voice Search represent the future of human-machine interaction, and they are here now, writes columnist Mike Elgan. …
Well-known American inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is joining Google. …
A high-flying startup that makes software enabling Android apps to run on PCs and Macs appears to be considering creating a version for Windows RT. read more
Samsung Electronics has acquired Nvelo, a Silicon Valley vendor of products for caching data on flash-based SSDs (solid-state disks). read more
YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code, they are using Google's programming language Go. read more