Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Mobility Mapping company Geobyte has deepened its relationship with TomTom by licensing TomTom HD Traffic information for use in its MetroView iPhone navigation app for Australia. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Entertainment Music subscription service Rdio has realised there’s such a thing as sharing too much information. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Enterprise Hitachi Data Systems is getting firmly behind Windows Server 2012 with the announcement that Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS), and Hitachi Compute Blade are now fully certified with full support for Windows Server 2012. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Market Doubts have been cast on Huawei’s claim to be owned by its employees, and on its independence from the Chinese Government, after a magazine reporting details of the ownership scheme was withdrawn from news-stands in China shortly after making its appearance. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Vodafone is to introduce a new, location-based SMS emergency warning system which, when fully operational next year, will alert mobile phone users of an emergency situation occurring in their local area. The system will also allow SMS alerts to be sent to …
Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: Games Those code masters at errrrm, Code Masters are not satisfied with working on F1 2013 and the more comical F1 Race Stars. Work is also underway on the follow-up title in the relatively new GRID franchise. …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Technology Oracle has been ordered to pay $US1.13 million to cover Google’s costs in the copyright and patent trial which ended on May 31 with a win for the search engine company. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Market If Apple’s iPhone was an independent company it would still be more valuable than Google or Microsoft, according to Apple watcher Horace Dediu. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Enterprise Dell has announced the 12th generation of its PowerEdge server family, with features designed to take advantage of Windows Server 2012. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Deals NBN Co has announced a range of new installation and maintenance contracts worth $142 million which it says will create 2000 new jobs across Australia. They will also make it more difficult for a future coalition government to unravel NBN commitments. …
At Forbes.com, Morgan Brennan reports on the new 8000-square foot Savant Experience Center, a typical “swanky” Manhattan apartment with one special difference — it’s automated with Apple technology. Brennan writes that nearly every feature of the multi-room center, including lighting, window shades, temperature, and even a hidden flat-screen television can …
In a new take on hands-on learning, faculty at Northwest Kansas Technical College are using iPad with select apps to teach students in disciplines ranging from auto technology to respiratory therapy and cosmetology. Instructors use iPad and AirPlay to demonstrate procedures, record them, and play them back on flat-panel classroom …
Written by: Sam Varghese | Published in: Open Source A well-known figure in Australian free and open source software circles has created an organisation to help individuals start businesses without the overheads that prevent people from doing so. …
Featured | Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Recruitment Candle, the IT recruitment arm of listed recruitment business Clarius Group, has sounded the alarm over the prospect of a new wave of extreme IT skills shortages. It’s a view that’s sharply out of kilter with the peak IT recruitment …
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: UNI-verse Bill Nye the Science Guy has been in the news lately talking about religion and science. He says he is not attacking religion, only wanting religious people with creationist views to let their children decide for themselves. What should we take from his …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Enterprise BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 promises to provide one-stop enterprise mobility management. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: People Financial services firm, Deloitte, has appointed a new boss of its Australian consulting financial services technology group. …
Featured | Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Regulation Telstra is demanding that it should be exempt from being required to provide regulated wholesale ADSL services in at least 289 exchange services areas; that it should not be required to provide wholesale naked ADSL services and that wholesale prices …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Mobility To be launched in Australia “later in 2012”, the Asus Vivo Tab and Vivo Tav RT tablets are designed for use with Windows 8. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Mobility Genesys’s communications-enabled business processes workload distribution solution, iWD, is gaining significant traction in the Australian and New Zealand regional market, according to the company, but it is pushing its mobile engagement solution hard, despite apparent reluctance by the market to invest at …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Mobility TomTom hasn’t revealed an exact release date for its GPS navigation app for Android, but it did use Berlin’s IFA exhibition to preview the forthcoming product. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: People Panasonic has put a new man in charge of sales and marketing for its Toughbook range of notebooks and tablets in the so-called Australian “ruggedised” computing market. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: People Yahoo!7 has a new Australian chief with the elevation of former Chief Operating Officer, Stuart Sayers to the position of Chief Executive, replacing Rohan Lund who will transition to the job of COO of the Seven West Media Group. …
Администрация LiveJournal запретила публикацию новых записей в блоге движения FEMEN. Конфликтная комиссия ЖЖ перевела блог в режим “только для чтения” за призывы спиливать кресты. FEMEN в ответ заявили, что отказываются от ведения блога, а новости об акциях будут публиковать на своем сайте. …
Личный микроблог главы Чечни Рамзана Кадырова @RKadyrov удален. Когда точно это произошло и что послужило причиной, неизвестно. Блогеры заметили, что твиттер Кадырова не открывается, 30 августа. 29 августа глава Чечни опубликовал последние записи, касающиеся смерти духовного лидера мусульман Дагестана Саида Чиркейского. …
Один из популярнейших файлообменных сервисов Filesonic прекратил работу в конце августа. В январе 2012 года, вскоре после закрытия Megaupload, Filesonic отключил функцию обмена файлами, превратившись в личное хранилище. На тот момент ресурс входил в десятку популярнейших файлообменных сервисов. …