: http://www.itwire.com Mon, 12 May 2008 03:08:57 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18171/1151/ It's an old saying that you can divide people into two groups: those that don't make regular backups and those that have lost data. But is it time for home... Core Dump - Apple and anything else Mon, 12 May 2008 02:34:24 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18170/127/ BlackBerry developer Research in Motion, The Royal Bank of Canada and Thomson Reuters are to launch a $US150 million venture capital fund to invest in mobile applications and services for... Telecommunications - Industry Mon, 12 May 2008 02:26:19 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18169/127/ The Tasmanian Government's hopes of breaking Telstra's monopoly of fibre access to the island have foundered with the owners of alternative capacity on the Basslink power cable playing hardball. Telecommunications - Networks Mon, 12 May 2008 01:48:07 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18168/1103/ Payroll, retail and accounting software solutions provider, MYOB, has entered the web hosting market with hosting and email packages after the recent purchase of a web hosting business. While this is a... Fuzzy Logic - The gadget blog Mon, 12 May 2008 01:28:16 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18166/532/ Optus has joined Vodafone in announcing an Australian iPhone later this year . Technology Lifestyle - New Products Mon, 12 May 2008 00:20:52 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18165/127/ Mobile data services are high priority for IT managers in global 1000 companies, but they are less than happy with roaming charges and with the level of support they get... Telecommunications - Services Sun, 11 May 2008 22:41:45 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18163/53/ Google has greatly increased the attractiveness of its hosted applications portfolio especially to large corporates with the addition of a web security product that, according to Google, makes it... Information technology news - Software Sun, 11 May 2008 18:27:27 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18161/1066/ On Wednesday, May 9, 2008, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released the report “ Teen Marijuana Use Worsens Depression: An Analysis of Recent Data Shows... Science - Health Sun, 11 May 2008 17:01:12 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18160/1141/ With Ubuntu 8.04 now on the streets, it’s time to catch a breather and reflect on just why Ubuntu gets all the hype. Why is Ubuntu the hottest brand in... The Linux distillery - The Linux user and switcher blog Sun, 11 May 2008 11:27:54 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18159/1066/ According to a CDC study, 52% of U.S. adults with diabetes also have arthritis. The study also found that this combination brings high levels of physical inactivity—which increases diabetic and... Science - Health Sun, 11 May 2008 10:52:41 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18158/1095/ Less than 20 years ago the world's dominant cellphone manufacturer was making, amongst a host of other things, car tyres. Now it's shifting focus again, into services, and gearing up... Cornered! - Telecommunications blog Sun, 11 May 2008 07:54:30 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18157/127/ Many suspected it because of anecdotal evidence that often apartment renters no longer bother to connect fixed line phones. Now a new report confirms it. Nearly half of household consumers... Telecommunications - News Sun, 11 May 2008 02:25:33 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18156/1023/ I've been a Neil Young fan since After The Goldrush (yes I'm that old) so seeing the fuss being made about him at Sun's JavaOne conference where he... Beerfiles - IT blog Sun, 11 May 2008 00:48:31 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18154/1066/ NASA announced on May 7, 2008 an agreement between itself, Intel Corporation, and SGI to increase the space agency’s computational capabilities into the exclusive group of organizations running petaflops supercomputers. Science - Space Sat, 10 May 2008 09:09:54 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18153/53/ Dear MPA, if you’re going to value the “losses” caused by video piracy, perhaps you would have more people on your side if you offered numbers that make some kind... Information technology news - Internet Sat, 10 May 2008 00:25:34 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18152/1066/ Supersonic aircraft are loud and can be destructive because they generate sonic booms. In an effort to design and build commercial supersonic aircraft that produce less intense sonic booms, the... Science - Space Fri, 09 May 2008 16:22:19 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18151/1066/ NASA has completed its first series of tests for what will eventually be the J-2X engine, which will power the upper stage rocket for the Ares I and Ares V... Science - Space Fri, 09 May 2008 10:44:45 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18148/1066/ The Multi-object Apache Point Observatory Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS) is set to survey about 11,000 stars. Beginning in 2008, astronomers hope to find at least 150 planets never... Science - Space Fri, 09 May 2008 09:25:59 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18147/53/ The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has joined a growing throng of PayPal and eBay competitors and detractors opposing eBay's push to have the Australian Competitition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)... Information technology news - E-Commerce Fri, 09 May 2008 04:04:00 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18146/1023/ And there we were believing that we could trust a vendor like Asus. The line they’ve spun to journalists in Australia about the Linux Asus Eee PC 900 being $50... Beerfiles - IT blog Fri, 09 May 2008 01:43:09 -0600