Apart from providing high resolution graphics as a way for gamers to frag each other, the Graphics Processing Units (GPU) attached to every video-card can provide computing power for scientists wanting to unlock the secrets of the human genome.
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Exploit code for the newest vulnerability (called "HTTP IE Style Heap Spray BO") is widely available on the Internet, should anyone wish to look for it.
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Many people in Australia have family and friends in distant countries, and Christmas can be a reminder of how far away they are. Cisco's offering Christmas dinners via HD telepresence as prizes in a competition.
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One of the best sources for news about Microsoft on the web these days is the personal blog of Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza.
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For at least 18 months Cisco has been talking about a global UC market worth $US27 billion, and Frost & Sullivan has just estimated the Australian US services market at $A608 million, but research firm ABI puts the global market at a mere $US302 million in 2008 and says it will be only $US4.2 billion by 2014.
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Despite a concerted push to reduce the proportion of IT contractors it employs, Victorian Government entity CenITex is still paying its top contractor twice what it pays its CEO, Peter Blades.
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Google has upgraded its Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry that provides integration between Gmail, Google Apps' Calendar and Address book and BlackBerry handhelds.
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US retailers are in the habit of offering dramatically reduced prices on the day after Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the Christmas buying season. Apple's no exception, and this year its Australian customers are also in for savings.
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A firmware upgrade boosts Kindle battery life and provides a native PDF reader.
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Police in a New York suburb, faced with an unruly crowd of girls waiting to see a teen idol, asked an executive from the idol's record company to use Twitter to tell the crowd to disperse. When he refused, he was arrested for hindering the police effort.
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Alan Ralsky, a longtime spammer who has boasted about how much money spam made him, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for his role in a stock "pump-and-dump" scheme.
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The proportion of people studying information technology subjects at institutions other than schools has plummeted since 2001, from 9 per cent of students enrolled in a course of study to just 3 per cent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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iTWire
has gone to Canberra - permanently! In an Australian first, iTWire has
become the only specialist technology publication with an office in the
Parliament House Press Gallery.
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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will release within days the discussion draft of legislation that would mandate fibre connections for all greenfield sites, a key indicator for developers and infrastructure providers in making near-term investment decisions.
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As predicted by iTWire last week Telstra has introduced a home Internet gateway, supplied by NetComm that uses HSPA+ over Next G to connect to the Internet.
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Employment is continuing to drop in the ICT goods sector and remaining flat in most ICT services, while ICT services employment has been flat or increased slightly - by a mere one percent - in most countries, including Canada, Germany, Sweden and Chinese Taipei, according to a report on the ICT industry by the OECD.
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Business software developer Oconics is claiming is has developed an Australian-first with what it says is “an easy-to-use website that dramatically simplifies finding services and information” offered by departments and agencies of the South Australian Government.
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NEC Australia has introduced a desktop unified communications client for use with its range of IP PBX products that it says creates "an additional challenge to IBM and Cisco."
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Many of Australia’s SMEs are moving slowly towards adopting a range of Unified Communications (UC) applications and are likely to consider new cloud-based offerings, while some are considering deploying IP telephony using a service provider’s hosted solution in the next two years.
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Telstra has unveiled a new security operations centre (SOC) in Canberra, designed to provide managed security services to enterprise and government customers across Australia.
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Controversial social networking service uSocial has been "defriended"
by Facebook, which sent the company a cease and desist notice forcing
uSocial to stop selling Facebook friends.
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For months, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of global media giant News Corp, has been complaining about his publications' content showing up in Google searches. Now Microsoft is reportedly offering to pay publishers, including News Corp, to block Google searches in favor of Bing listings.
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Heather Buchanan isn't organising anything very technical for the next Australian national Linux conference. But her contributions will remain with the delegates much longer than those of the other volunteers.
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Small cars tend to get larger with successive models, with the result that manufacturers end up introducing new model names to recapture the vacated space. Does Lenovo's 12in IdeaPad SA12 suggest a similar process is happening with netbooks?
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The global online addiction that is World of Warcraft has reached a milestone and levelled up. To celebrate, all players get their own pet dragon.
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