Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Automotive The Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring the DARPA Robotics Challenge to improve robotic technology so robots can assist humans in disaster scenarios. See the YouTube video of a prototype robot in action. …
Клип российской группы “Рабфак” на песню “Хватит кормить Канзас” был удален из видеохостинга YouTube с формулировкой “за шокирующее и непристойное содержание”. Авторы поста утверждают, что столкнулись с “фактом политической цензуры”, поскольку клип состоит из пользовательских видеороликов. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Entertainment Quickflix has announced its quarterly results, delivered stronger growth as it “resumed a focus on subscriber acquisition”, following its increased emphasis on digital streaming. …
Компания Samsung официально представила смартфон Galaxy Premier (I9260), о котором мы уже слышали ранее. Дизайн смартфона это что то среднее между Galaxy Nexus и Galaxy S III и оснащен фирменными приложениями Samsung такими как TouchWiz UI, S Beam, Smart Stay, Direct Call, Pop-Up Play, S Voice, Best Photo, а работает это …
Самой популярной темой записей американских пользователей Facebook в последние дни стало выражение “we are ok” (“мы в порядке”). Facebook связывает это с прошедшим ураганом “Сэнди”. Также в топ-10 попали слова power (“энергия” или “электричество”) и damage (“повреждение”). …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Technology Dimension Data’s annual global contact centre benchmarking study shows that, worldwide, organisations are struggling to adapt their customer contract practices to match the rapid shift away from the phone call to social media as customers’ preferred means of communication. …
Written by: David Swan | Published in: Mobility You don’t have to necessarily be at the races to be able to watch and enjoy them, thanks to a new app launched today. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Cloud Services Sydney based managed services provider Applaud is offering BMC’s Remedy IT service management software as a cloud-based service, saying it offers considerable advantages over the traditional premises based deployment. …
Featured | Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: People NBN Co has appointed John McInerney as Chief Information Officer (CIO). He was formerly with HP, but is best known for holding the CIO position at Telstra under controversial CEO Sol Trujillo. …
Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: Automotive Self-drive cars may be the future, but that doesn’t mean the death of grid-lock or the general drag of slow city traffic. Why do we even fork out for high performance vehicles when much of the time is spent travelling slower than …
Featured | Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Security Most Australian have never been victim of a cybercrime. Only 1% say they have had their identity stolen, and 10% have been the victim of online fraud. Is cybercrime exaggerated? …
Featured | Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Technology NAB claims that it has reduced the number of “significant technology incidents” by 28 per cent in the last 12 months. Given the shocker the bank had the previous year it had little choice. …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Space The hardest-to-see planet is on full show just after sunset. …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open Sauce If Steve Ballmer is remembered for anything once he leaves the building at Redmond, it will be for Windows Vista, the product that completely derailed Microsoft. …
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic After Apple lost its bid in the UK court system to have Samsung deemed a patent infringing copier, and ordered to post a statement on its UK site stating so, Apple has complied, while making its feelings, and contrary judgements in …
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Health At first, wearing decorative contact lenses with your Halloween costume may seem like a treat, but buying them without a prescription is illegal and it can cause eye damage, a real trick to your safety and well-being. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Coinciding with the establishment of its expanding partnership with F5 Networks in Australia, global Web security company WhiteHat Security has achieved record worldwide sales growth for the first half of 2012 on the back of what it says is a significant shift …
Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: Radioactive IT By day Trent Kusters toils away at the video game studio Divisive Media, but during his spare time he becomes the director of the a game collective known as League of Geeks. This group of fifteen highly experienced game developers are …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Health Better still, don’t start at all! …
Аналитики Juniper Research дали свою оценку рынку смартфонов, на котором в III квартале 2012 года было выпущено 157 миллионов устройств. Корпорация Samsung Electronics укрепила свое лидерство, поставив рекордные 56,3 млн трубок, а это почти в два раза больше, чем у ближайшего преследователя – Apple. Калифорнийский производитель подготовил к продаже 26,9 …
Internet payments company PayPal will cut 325 jobs as part of a companywide reorganization, its president said Monday. read more
China's largest search engine, Baidu, said on Tuesday its net profit for the third quarter increased by 59.8 percent year over year on continued growth from advertising customers and improvements made to draw revenue from its online ad services. read more
Riverbed Technology will acquire Opnet Technologies for about US$1 billion, the two companies said Monday. read more
В игре Assassin’s Creed 3 появятся микротранзакции. Как пишет портал Worthplaying, там станут доступны очки Erudito, которые позволят геймерам покупать предметы внутри игры. …
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space Hurricane Sandy is pounding the northeast part of the United States. The GOES-13 satellite captured the storm on Sunday, October 28, 2012, as it approaches its destination of New England. …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! That’s not what President Hollande says he wants to achieve, but it will be the outcome. …