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by Mike Bantick
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008 |
NICTA have announced the release of a new network engine dubbed Badumna. Using peer to peer (P2P) based technology, Badumna hopes to slash hosting costs for massive multiplayer online (MMO) development of 3D virtual worlds.
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by David M Williams
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
Yesterday I reported on a Microsoft Australia programming contest to find star developers which had many more submissions from "Ov3rLord" and Turkish self-labelled hackers than genuine entrants. Microsoft phoned in their side of the story. Yet even if the site was not hacked (and suffered merely the lesser charge of prank defacement) it still suffered problems.
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by David M Williams
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
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Microsoft followed their annual major Tech-Ed event in Australia with a week-long programming contest called "DevSta," to find "star developers." While the quantity and quality of submissions suggest a poor turnout it certainly caught the attention of at least two hackers who left their mark.
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
Windows XP has been given another reprieve by Microsoft. A program that allows vendors to either include or offer a downgrade from Vista to XP will run longer than previously expected.
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by Stephen Withers
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
The proliferation of metadata standards has been causing headaches for users of digital photography. But a band of industry heavyweights in the Metadata Working Group has come up with a set of guidelines that should cut the confusion.
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
Windows HPC Server 2008 is the latest member of Microsoft's operating systems family to go into production. HPC - high performance computing - is aimed at customers with major number-crunching tasks.
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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
A creature named Own Blood, created by Thailand's Peerakam Santivorapong, has been chosen as the winner of the Asia-Pacific round of a competition for the best Spore creations.
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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
Microsoft's getting with the program: the company has previewed support for H.264 video content in Silverlight. Some may question why it has taken Redmond so long to embrace the video standard.
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by Stephen Withers
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
Some people watching Steve Jobs' "Let's Rock" presentation were concentrating on his health, most were keen for details of the new iPods, but a few were more concerned with how the material was being put on the big screen. Is a new version of Keynote on the way?
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by Davey Winder
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
A new digital music format promises to allow musicians to record potentially thousands of variations of the same song in a single file, playing back each arrangement based on rules decided by the artist or producer. Not forgetting the lyrics, artwork and photography which can all appear during playback...
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