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by Jake Widman
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Six of the nineteen candidates for the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year came from the world of technology. And the winner? "Unfriend."
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by William Atkins
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According to analysis of four large national health surveys by two U.S. researchers of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 4% of children in the United States have food allergies. And, that percentage is increasing rapidly; however, the reason is unclear.
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by William Atkins
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According to the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, about 25% of teenagers in the United States are texting while driving. They see their parents texting and driving, too!
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by James Riley
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US computer security giant McAfee says discussion about cyber warfare and critical infrastructure protection should be taken from behind the closed doors of security, intelligence and defence agencies and moved into the open.
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by Stuart Corner
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Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions business has introduced into Australia a set of recently released enterprise wireless products - 802.11n and external long distance point-to-point and point-to-multipoint systems - declaring its intent to be number one or two in a local market its says is worth in excess of $120 million a year.
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by Mike Bantick
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Live American sport streaming to the PC, Australian home cable tv company FOXTEL has teamed up with ESPN to bring sports fans ESPN360
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by Peter Dinham
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Global storage management software vendor, Acronis says it has hired technology industry “luminary” and 20 year IT industry veteran, Steve Mann as its chief marketing officer, charged with leading its worldwide marketing efforts.
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by Peter Dinham
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The South Australian Government today announced a three-year contract with Microsoft to deploy a new hosted email service, making instant messaging, an online calendar and the ability to share online documents, available to more than 80,000 students and staff at TAFE SA from next year.
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by Peter Dinham
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Australia’s malware infection rate is significantly lower than the worldwide average, with estimates by Microsoft that 3.9 systems in Australia are infected for every one thousand systems on which the company’s malicious software removal tool is executed, compared to the worldwide average of 8.7 systems per one thousand executed, or more than double Australia’s infection rate.
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by James Riley
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The Government says it will comply with a Senate motion seeking information on the circumstances in which senior Queensland Labor staffer Mike Kaiser was hired by the NBN Company.
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by Stuart Corner
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AT&T has launched, globally, a cloud computing service designed to "give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity."
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by Beverley Head
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Spending on information technology will rise by 2.6 per cent next year – but half of all CIOs should expect their IT budgets to stay the same or even contract next year before a slow improvement in 2011 according to industry analyst Gartner.
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by James Riley
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The Australian Greens have issued a dissenting report on amendments to the Telecommunications Interception Act, objecting to increased powers given to authorities to intercept internet messages for the purpose of protecting critical computer network infrastructure.
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by Stephen Withers
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Judging by Telstra's own figures, the TelstraOne Experience UI delivered on some phones may be doing more for the company than for users. It's apparently adding more than 10% to customers' monthly bills.
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