The most family orientated of the three big players in electronic games has been rattled by a controversy with a racial epithet contained in the popular Animal Crossing game. But don't get too excited, there is something easy to blame, the Internet.
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What do you do when you are 20, passionate about open source and want nothing better during the long summer holidays than to be involved in activities surrounding FOSS?
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System administrators look like having a busy time in the run-up to Christmas as they digest and test the eight security bulletins that Microsoft expects to release next Tuesday. Six of the bulletins are rated critical.
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Telstra has staged the latest move in the ongoing PR battle over the National Broadband Network: a presentation from its 'Plumber', COO Greg Winn, seeking to communicate the complexity and difficulty of the project, and only Telstra's ability to build and operate it.
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The board of financial software and services company MYOB is maintaining its opposition to the bid made by US-Australian takeover vehicle Manhattan Software. "The offer is neither fair nor reasonable," said MYOB's chairman.
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Cisco has appointed Michael Lehmann as its new partner operations director for Australia and New Zealand. Mr Lehmann, who has worked in reseller, wholesaler and end-user organisations, will be responsible for leading a team to help increase partner profitability and growth in Australia and New Zealand through the promotion of the network as the platform for customer productivity.
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Nearly 90% of organisations in major markets across the world expect to maintain or grow their usage of software as a service (SaaS), putting enterprise software vendors such as Oracle and SAP under pressure, according to a new survey.
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A new study suggests that at least 98 percent of PCs are running at least one piece of software with a known security vulnerability.
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So you thought you could escape the barrage of advertising on commercial and pay TV by turning to games as a major source of entertainment? Not if Microsoft can help it!
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No, it's not the villain in the latest slasher movie - Koobface is a social networking worm affecting MySpace and Facebook. But like Jason and Freddie, Koobface refuses to die.
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Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC has made it to retail shelves and digital distribution services. The game will require SecurROM activation, but RockStar Games reassure GTA IV PC fans that the DRM won’t be too heavy.
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A UK company says its switch from Linux to Windows will save it £1 million (almost $A2.3 million). How does that work?
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Do you know how many visitors to your web site eventually end up making a purchase? Why did the others not buy? Did they drop out during the sales process? Can you work out why? And, importantly, can you pick that sale up again? The answers might be sitting dormant in your web log - if only someone looked.
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Telecommunications research firm Market Clarity says that Aussies are
switching to high-speed ADSL 2+ services, “with or without the
government’s NBN”, in a trend that “will drive the next five years of
broadband market development”.
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Domino’s Pizza will now come with a remote control – your brand-new TiVo box. Early in 2009, you will be able to order a Domino’s Pizza delivered right to your door. All you need do now is give the delivery guy your front-door key and you’ll never leave the sofa again.
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The newest top level domain, .tel, has finally gone on sale, with the
registery operator Telic now accepting applications for trademarks from
businesses and organizations worldwide. With the dotcom domain name
rush in the past, and now to the new dottel sell, it still seems
likely, even in the “economic crisis”, that Telnic will find sales
swift and swell.
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Leading economic think tank CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) has criticised the Federal Government's obsession with building the National Broadband Network, saying a subsidised $4.7 billion FTTN rollout is unnecessary. CEDA's report, Australia’s Broadband Future: Four doors to greater competition, maintains that focussing on FTTN to the exclusion of competing access methods will decrease competition.
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The BlackBerry Bold boldly goes where BlackBerries have gone before –
to the 3 Mobile network in Australia. BlackBerry fans on 3 who want the
best physical QWERTY keyboarded Blackberry in existence are sure to be
shaken and stirred at the news.
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Cloud computing and SaaS provider Zoho has developed a new service that aims to bridge the divide between data stored in the cloud and traditional locally stored applications.
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US Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin is pushing provisions for a free, nationwide wireless Internet service. The Commission is expected to consider the proposal later this month.
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Home is where the heart is and, if mobile phone colossus Nokia has its way, it will soon be a place where a smart mobile phone control centre lives. Nokia has launched a new open platform designed to enable users to remotely control devices in their home from their mobile phone.
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Microsoft has claimed a three-to-one Black Friday weekend victory for Xbox 360 over PlayStation 3. If the figures prove to be correct, Sony's expensive console could be in for a walloping at the sales counter this Christmas.
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Nokia Siemens Networks claims to have staged the first demonstration of LTE-A (long term evolution-advanced) wireless broadband technology, a future evolution of today's 3G networks that could deliver speeds up to 1Gbps. But don't hold you breath.
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National ICT recruiter Finite IT Recruitment is not letting Federal Government razor gang sentiments dampen its business outlook for the Australian Capital Territory, announcing that the company has relocated to new, larger, state of the art offices in Canberra.
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Google is set to expand into the mobile market place in a big way and mobile search will a key growth driver for the Internet search and advertising market leader over the next five years. These are the fndings of a new report from a media industry analyst group.
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