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Intel wants to put an Atom in your phone- and car too!
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 20:58:37
Chip heavyweight Intel has announced a new line-up of its low power Atom processors specifically designed for in-car devices as well as Internet phones. The move comes as widespread processor usage spreads out of compute specific environment to Internet edge devices.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 20:58:37
Chip heavyweight Intel has announced a new line-up of its low power Atom processors specifically designed for in-car devices as well as Internet phones. The move comes as widespread processor usage spreads out of compute specific environment to Internet edge devices.
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How to hold back an e-reader business - tie it to a phone network
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 19:44:23
The Amazon Kindle e-reader has been getting great publicity since it was first launched in November 2007. Yet it is hard to understand why Amazon has hampered its global distribution by tying its capabilities to a mobile phone network. Isn't the Internet good enough?
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 19:44:23
The Amazon Kindle e-reader has been getting great publicity since it was first launched in November 2007. Yet it is hard to understand why Amazon has hampered its global distribution by tying its capabilities to a mobile phone network. Isn't the Internet good enough?
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Mobile networks mobilised, 3 million Victorians get SMS fire warning
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 15:15:06
My son came running into my office yesterday saying that the police had sent him an SMS text message. I told him not to worry because I got one too. In fact 3 million mobile phone owners across the state of Victoria got a message warning them of impending danger.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 15:15:06
My son came running into my office yesterday saying that the police had sent him an SMS text message. I told him not to worry because I got one too. In fact 3 million mobile phone owners across the state of Victoria got a message warning them of impending danger.
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Optus gets naked with iiNet and others, what now Telstra?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 04:43:33
Competition in the Australian voice and broadband market just got a lot hotter with Optus announcing a naked DSL service running at ADSL2+ speeds, meaning customers can now take out a broadband DSL plan without having to pay an added PSTN telephone line rental charge. Optus, Australia's second largest broadband provider, joins the number three ISP iiNet and a bevy of smaller providers now offering naked DSL plans, putting further pressure on Telstra's PSTN business.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 04:43:33
Competition in the Australian voice and broadband market just got a lot hotter with Optus announcing a naked DSL service running at ADSL2+ speeds, meaning customers can now take out a broadband DSL plan without having to pay an added PSTN telephone line rental charge. Optus, Australia's second largest broadband provider, joins the number three ISP iiNet and a bevy of smaller providers now offering naked DSL plans, putting further pressure on Telstra's PSTN business.
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Asus Eee PC 1000HE high price tag matches long battery life
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 01:40:39
ASUS has unveiled its new Atom powered Eee PC 1000HE, which boasts up to 9.5 hours battery life. However, at almost A$100 for each hour for us Australians the latest Eee PC model no longer carries the el cheapo netbook price tag that helped make the brand famous worldwide.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-02 01:40:39
ASUS has unveiled its new Atom powered Eee PC 1000HE, which boasts up to 9.5 hours battery life. However, at almost A$100 for each hour for us Australians the latest Eee PC model no longer carries the el cheapo netbook price tag that helped make the brand famous worldwide.
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Pay for e-News? Not likely sir!
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-01 13:33:35
Four years ago I wrote an article about the fast approaching demise of the print news business. That day is just about upon us and judging by the actions of Hearst, one the largest newspaper publishers in the world, many old world media players are still flailing around punching air trying to figure out how to stay in business.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-01 13:33:35
Four years ago I wrote an article about the fast approaching demise of the print news business. That day is just about upon us and judging by the actions of Hearst, one the largest newspaper publishers in the world, many old world media players are still flailing around punching air trying to figure out how to stay in business.
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Android the real Linux desktop threat to Windows
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-01 02:25:14
Microsoft got things seriously wrong when it released Vista and the company knows it. In the past, the absolute market dominance of Windows on the desktop has allowed Redmond to get away with such mistakes. That may no longer be the case now that Google has entered the operating system market with its Linux-based Android platform.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-01 02:25:14
Microsoft got things seriously wrong when it released Vista and the company knows it. In the past, the absolute market dominance of Windows on the desktop has allowed Redmond to get away with such mistakes. That may no longer be the case now that Google has entered the operating system market with its Linux-based Android platform.
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Fence sitting IIA refuses to speak out against Internet filtering
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-02-28 17:30:44
The Internet Industry Association, the peak body representing the major Internet players in Australia, including the ISPs, has once again refused to take a stand against the Australian Government's attack on Internet freedom. A question must now be raised over whose interests the IIA truly represents.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-02-28 17:30:44
The Internet Industry Association, the peak body representing the major Internet players in Australia, including the ISPs, has once again refused to take a stand against the Australian Government's attack on Internet freedom. A question must now be raised over whose interests the IIA truly represents.
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Windows 7 beta gets thorough going over in readiness for RC
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-02-28 03:32:09
Microsoft has announced at least three dozen largely cosmetic changes to the beta version of Windows 7 as the software giant gets ready to distribute the first release candidate of its new operating system. Feedback in the blogosphere about the flagged changes has been mainly positive, although there have also been a few brickbats.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-02-28 03:32:09
Microsoft has announced at least three dozen largely cosmetic changes to the beta version of Windows 7 as the software giant gets ready to distribute the first release candidate of its new operating system. Feedback in the blogosphere about the flagged changes has been mainly positive, although there have also been a few brickbats.
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Technology One to zap SAP and go global says boss
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-27 01:09:45
TechnologyOne founder and executive chairman Adrian Di Marco maintains that his company will not go the way of other promising Australian IT companies and sell out to foreign interests. In fact, Di Marco says TechOne is poised to wipe the floor with SAP and Oracle locally and then take the fight to the global stage.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-27 01:09:45
TechnologyOne founder and executive chairman Adrian Di Marco maintains that his company will not go the way of other promising Australian IT companies and sell out to foreign interests. In fact, Di Marco says TechOne is poised to wipe the floor with SAP and Oracle locally and then take the fight to the global stage.
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Finite IT beats downturn with sales boost in second half
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-23 22:07:17
Big three Australian technology recruiter Finite IT managed to overcome a strong contraction in the jobs market in the second half of 2008 with a healthy rise in revenues. Contrary to some earlier predictions from other recruitment watchers, Finite has found the contracting space to be its anchor rather than permanent placements.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-23 22:07:17
Big three Australian technology recruiter Finite IT managed to overcome a strong contraction in the jobs market in the second half of 2008 with a healthy rise in revenues. Contrary to some earlier predictions from other recruitment watchers, Finite has found the contracting space to be its anchor rather than permanent placements.
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Senator Conroy joins CeBIT Hannover 2009 delegation
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2009-02-23 06:56:32
Federal Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, will hot foot it over to Germany next month to be part of a high-powered Australian delegation to visit the world's largest technology fair CeBIT in Hannover.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2009-02-23 06:56:32
Federal Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, will hot foot it over to Germany next month to be part of a high-powered Australian delegation to visit the world's largest technology fair CeBIT in Hannover.
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World-first Gigabit wireless chip technology demonstrated
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2009-02-19 04:46:21
NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre, has held the first public demonstration of a prototype system using a 60GHz Gigabit wireless (GiFi) chip technology. The demonstration of wireless technology claimed to be an order of magnitude faster than anything to date comes after a research effort spanning four years, involving a team of 15 researchers.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2009-02-19 04:46:21
NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre, has held the first public demonstration of a prototype system using a 60GHz Gigabit wireless (GiFi) chip technology. The demonstration of wireless technology claimed to be an order of magnitude faster than anything to date comes after a research effort spanning four years, involving a team of 15 researchers.
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New technology enables solar cells to be printed like money
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Sustainability
Category: Alternative energies
2009-02-19 04:22:15
While US printing presses are working overtime trying to create enough dollars to meet demand, Australian researchers are developing a way to use the same process to harness the energy of the sun.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Sustainability
Category: Alternative energies
2009-02-19 04:22:15
While US printing presses are working overtime trying to create enough dollars to meet demand, Australian researchers are developing a way to use the same process to harness the energy of the sun.
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You got to pick a Telstra pocket or two - in Barcelona
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-18 16:35:21
You have a new beta version of Windows Mobile running on a new HTC Touch handset, who do you entrust the phone to for testing purposes? Obviously not Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo and his offsiders at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona because their pockets are too easy to pick.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-18 16:35:21
You have a new beta version of Windows Mobile running on a new HTC Touch handset, who do you entrust the phone to for testing purposes? Obviously not Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo and his offsiders at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona because their pockets are too easy to pick.
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Finite IT puts 200,000 candidate profiles in the cloud with iProfile
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-18 02:10:23
If there is one thing recruiters and candidates agree upon it's that keeping CVs up to date and in an easily searched format is a pain. Enter one of Australia's largest IT recruiters Finite IT, add online CV specialist iProfile and presto 200,000 IT professionals now have standardised online CVs, which can be accessed, updated and shared from any computer, anywhere in the world.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-18 02:10:23
If there is one thing recruiters and candidates agree upon it's that keeping CVs up to date and in an easily searched format is a pain. Enter one of Australia's largest IT recruiters Finite IT, add online CV specialist iProfile and presto 200,000 IT professionals now have standardised online CVs, which can be accessed, updated and shared from any computer, anywhere in the world.
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HP Mini 2140 new contender for 10-inch netbook crown
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-17 15:22:34
So far I have not heard a bad word about the HP Mini 2140 netbook PC and judging by my experience with its predecessor the 2133 I can understand why. From what I can see, HP's second attempt at a low-end sub-notebook has ironed out the failings of its first try.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-17 15:22:34
So far I have not heard a bad word about the HP Mini 2140 netbook PC and judging by my experience with its predecessor the 2133 I can understand why. From what I can see, HP's second attempt at a low-end sub-notebook has ironed out the failings of its first try.
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Wozniak solid state storage scientist at Fusion-io
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-17 03:59:09
No longer content to Segway up and down the boulevard of Infinite Loop listening to his iPod or teaching children about computers, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has accepted the role of chief scientist at solid state storage provider Fusion-io.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-17 03:59:09
No longer content to Segway up and down the boulevard of Infinite Loop listening to his iPod or teaching children about computers, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has accepted the role of chief scientist at solid state storage provider Fusion-io.
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Huawei unveils inscrutable non-working Android smartphone
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-17 00:45:45
Chinese telecoms heavyweight Huawei Technologies has unveiled its first Android smartphone at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The smartphone, one of a growing number slated to be powered by Google's open source Android operating system, will be commercially available in the third quarter of 2009.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-17 00:45:45
Chinese telecoms heavyweight Huawei Technologies has unveiled its first Android smartphone at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The smartphone, one of a growing number slated to be powered by Google's open source Android operating system, will be commercially available in the third quarter of 2009.
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Telstra launches turbo charged 21Mbps Next G in Barcelona
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-16 14:35:50
Ahead of today's scheduled Australian launch, Telstra yesterday announced its world first 21Mbps mobile broadband service at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In making the announcement, Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo shared the stage with the bosses of some of the world's telecoms heavyweights.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-16 14:35:50
Ahead of today's scheduled Australian launch, Telstra yesterday announced its world first 21Mbps mobile broadband service at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In making the announcement, Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo shared the stage with the bosses of some of the world's telecoms heavyweights.
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