Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Mobility A new iPad mini means a new line of accessories, with well known brand Belkin bringing in several sleeves, covers and screen protectors to protect your latest little iPurchase. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Mobility There is a generational divide between older Australians reluctant to take up mobile and contactless payment methods, and younger Australians no longer tied to cash. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Development Large Asian social networking players Tencent and NHN are set to seize a market opportunity to expand beyond their home region. …
Featured | Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Regulation Australian consumers made nearly 200,000 formal complaints about telecommunications services last year. …
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $36.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.2 billion, or $8.67 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $28.3 billion and net profit of $6.6 billion, or …
At Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, 17,000 on-campus and online students learn modern techniques in filmmaking, sound mixing, game development, and more using the most current digital tools. For film and video students, that includes editing in Final Cut Pro X. Says school information officer Isis Jones: “We …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Market The volatility of the global mobile phone market is apparent in the greatly differing financial performance of the major smart phone manufacturers. …
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic While Apple’s bets are firmly placed in its iOS tablets and separate OS X computers, Microsoft has gone all in on its brand new hybrid OS blending the best of tablet and desktop environments across ARM, Intel and AMD processors – …
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Cloud Services IBM is now offering access to its SmartCloud Enterprise+ cloud service out of a data centre in NSW, ratcheting up competition among the slew of other local cloud service providers including major players such as Fujitsu, HP, Telstra and CSC. …
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic Just as Apple’s most recent launch is required and heavenly tech geek event viewing, so too are other major launches, such as Microsoft’s Windows 8 launch event in New York last night, and will next week’s WinPhone 8 and Google Nexus …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic The “ow starts now” was my reworking of Vista’s tagline, but with Windows 8 and RT that both blend Microsoft’s tablet magic with the full power of a desktop OS, delivered in an amazing variety of form factors, sizes …
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Profiler There’s an older, silver-haired gent in the second or third row at most of the major ICT conferences; at press events; at industry gatherings. Over the last 40 plus years Len Rust has carved himself a unique niche in the Australian ICT …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open Sauce Last week marked eight years since Ubuntu made its appearance on the GNU/Linux scene. Since October 2004, there has been a release of this distribution every six months, the initial buzz being very loud and then gradually fading away. …
In the biggest data compromise of the year, Social Security Numbers belonging to about 3.6 million residents in South Carolina have been exposed in an intrusion into a computer at the state’s Department of Revenue. …
A San Francisco court will hear arguments next month against a proposed US$22.5 million privacy settlement between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, over Google's use of cookies to track the Web movements of users running Apple's Safari browser. …
New York-based political statistician and author Nate Silver was a special guest speaker at IBM’s Information On Demand conference. Big data, algorithms and sports analysis were among the topics of discussion. …
Tech stocks were flat Friday afternoon after earnings announcements from IT vendors this week and a government economic report offered glimpses of good news, but not enough to dispel the pall that hangs over the technology market. …
Microsoft today opened its virtual store and began selling upgrades to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99, making good on a promise made last summer. …
Approximately 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers belonging to South Carolina taxpayers were exposed after a server at the state's Department of Revenue was breached by an international hacker, state officials said Friday. read more
A San Francisco court will hear arguments next month against a proposed US$22.5 million privacy settlement between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, over Google's use of cookies to track the Web movements of users running Apple's Safari browser. read more
Социальная сеть Одноклассники, проект Mail.Ru Group, объявила о внедрении дополнительных технологий, которые помогут оградить детей от вредоносного контента. Проект Одноклассники продолжает добавлять настройки, которые помогут оградить детей от различного вредоносного контента, который может отправляться пользователями. С 1 ноября дети в возрасте до 14 лет не будет получать личные сообщения от …
Яндекс запустил новую почту — Trinity. Она предназначена для людей, которые используют почту в рабочих целях. В Trinity рабочая переписка будет доступна пользователю везде, где есть интернет. Новая почта имеет лаконичный интерфейс, чтобы ничто не отвлекало от работы. В Trinity нет ни тем оформления, ни рекламы. Интерфейс состоит из трех …
Интернет магазин Amazon начал продажи нетбука ASUS F201E, работающий под управлением операционной системы Ubuntu. Нетбук ASUS F201E работает на базе 1,1-гигагерцового процессора Intel Celeron 857 и обладает 11,6-дюймовым дисплеем с разрешением 1366 × 768 точек, до 4 Гигабайт оперативной памяти и до 500 Гигабайт дискового пространства, VGA камерой для проведения видеоконференций, картридером …
В планах Microsoft нет выпуска второго пакета обновлений Service Pack (SP) для операционной системы Windows 7, сообщает ресурс The Register с ссылаясь на свои источники. Сообщается, что вместо SP2 Microsoft ежемесячно будет выпускать патчи до окончания срока поддержки Windows 7 в 2015 году (или в 2020-м для версий с …
Полиция штата Нью-Йорк 26 октября арестовала бизнесмена Пола Челью по обвинению в подделке документов на совладение социальной сетью Facebook. Челье предъявили обвинение в мошенничестве. По каждому из предъявленных пунктов обвинения предпринимателю грозит по 20 лет лишения свободы. …
На базе “Яндекс.Карт” вышла игра в жанре tower defence. Пользователь может выбрать один из шести российских городов, на карте которого будет разворачиваться действие. После этого он должен расставлять стреляющие “башни” вдоль маршрута “монстров”, движущихся к его “базе”. …