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Australia’s embattled construction sector could benefit from cloud based information systems that can be switched on and off in lockstep with individual projects – with the exception of those organisations based in remote areas like the Kimberleys.

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Roxio pushes Blu-ray for Mac cause with Toast 7

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The first Blu-ray burning software for Macintosh has arrived from Roxio, a division of digital media software company Sonic Solutions. The software Toast 7 will enable Mac users who buy external Blu-ray drives, due to hit the market within two months, to store up to 50 GB of data on recordable discs.

The present generation of Macs do not include native support for Blu-ray media so Toast 7 has hit the market at the right time to exploit the needs of early adopters. The software allows users to burn BD-R discs and re-write data to BD-RE discs using the familiar drag and drop file copying method.

According to reports, Toast 7 treats Blu-ray discs as a removable storage device and writes directly to them without the need for caching on the hard drive first.

It's not clear yet whether the arrival of a Blu-ray application for Mac signals that Apple has committed itself to the technology or still has the rival HD DVD format under consideration as well. With no native support for either format on the Mac yet, Apple could turn either way.