Microsoft loses copyright case in Beijing Microsoft was successfully sued for copyright infringement by the developer of the Chinese fonts used in almost all versions of Windows.
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Domino's have beaten rivals Pizza Hut to the punch with a new iPhone
app, allowing hungry customers to order pizzas from wherever they are,
whenever they want. Record levels of laziness soon to follow.
Google is to acquire AdMob, a three year old mobile display ad technology provider, for $US750 million in stock, to enhance its expertise and technology in mobile advertising and to give its advertisers and publishers more choice in mobile advertising.
Juniper Research is predicting that, by 2014, one in six cellphone subscribers globally with have phones equipped with near field communications and able to be used as a contactless payment device. In the meantime, Giesecke & Devrient has come up with a simpler solution that turns any cellphone into a contactless credit card or debit card, after a fashion.
Adam Internet has launched services and announced prices on the WiMAX network it is rolling out in Adelaide to provide broadband services to residents in a number of blackspot areas.
Some of Australia's biggest brand names - Vodafone Hutchison and Coca Cola - have fallen foul of the Spam Act over their involvement in a Coca Cola SMS marketing campaign, with VHA paying the ACMA $110,000 and Coca Cola receiving a formal warning.
UK publisher Titan Books has come out with four Wallace and Gromit comic books in iPhone app form. Three of the apps go for 99 cents US, while the fourth is free.
Operational performance solutions vendor, myDIALS, has formed a partnership with IT services group, L7 Solutions, to deliver SaaS-based BI solutions to companies in the Western Australian market.
Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, has brought together Chinese and Australian policy makers, industrialists and researchers in a first-ever ICT summit it is hosting in Shanghai to discuss the future of information and communication technologies.
The Australian-developed iPhone application, i am Safe, that can be used by iPhone users anywhere in the world to alert family or friends when they are in trouble, now has users in more than 54 countries just five and a half weeks after becoming available on the iTunes App Store.
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Worldwide shipments of smartphones reached a high of nearly 40 million units in the third quarter of 2008, helping to grow the category by 28% from the same quarter last year.
