Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Google Apps isn't the only piece of software to finally lose a long-standing beta label. The well-regarded open-source VLC media player has finally reached version 1.0.0 - over eight years after its original release.
There are several reasons for VLC's popularity, but perhaps most importantly it is capable of playing a wide variety of media types - including DVDs.
This side of the program has been further bolstered in version 1.0.0. There are new decoders for AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, True HD/MLP, Blu-Ray Linear PCM (though Blu-ray disc support is only experimental), QCELP, and WMA v1/2.
Improvements have been made to other decoders, and the demuxers have been improved and extended.
The playback controls have received attention, and VLC now provides instantaneous pausing, frame-by-frame playback, and finer speed control. The Mac OS X version supports the media keys on Apple's aluminium keyboards.
Talking of Apple, VLC now supports AirTunes audio output.
VLC 1.0.0 is available as a compiled program for various Linux distributions, Windows (2000 or later), and Mac OS X (10.5 or later). Mac users still running 10.4 will have to make do with version 0.9.9a. This change is attributed to "technical limitations" in Tiger.
David Bass
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