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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 06 June 2006 |
 Those of us who received our automatic security updates for the Mozilla Firefox browser last week have received a stark reminder that, when it comes to software and the web, the level of vulnerability rises in proportion to the size of the target. The fact that most of us Firefox users are now running Firefox 1.5.0.4, as a result of the need to fix 12 flaws, five of which were critical, is proof enough of that.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 06 June 2006 |
Ever since Google acquired the rudimentary online product Writely in March, the world has been waiting for the search leader to bring out a usable online word processor. True to form, however, Google has surprised all and sundry with the news that this week it will launch an online spreadsheet product.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 06 June 2006 |
Fast growing networking player, Juniper Networks, and Microsoft have announced a global agreement to deliver IPTV security solutions. Under the agreement, Juniper can offer IPTV network security solutions to customers of Microsoft TV IPTV Edition.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 06 June 2006 |
While the often misunderstood Moore's Law doesn't actually state that computing power of processors will double every two years (complexity doubles), the determination of chip making rivals Intel and AMD to outdo each other promises to give the old adage a shake.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 06 June 2006 |
Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corporation claims to have set a storage density record with a new 2.5-inch hard disk drive (HDD) which can store 200GB using the recently developed perpendicular magnetic recording technology.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 04 June 2006 |
The Australian Information Industry Association is pleased there were so many ICT related initiatives in the 2006 Victorian State Budget.
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by Stan Beer
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Saturday, 03 June 2006 |
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Microsoft has borne the brunt of criticism for its massive domination of the computer desktop since the release of Windows 95. For once, however, it is not Microsoft that has some explaining to do. Microsoft's decision not to include the ability to save files to Adobe's PDF format in its upcoming Office 2007 product, after arguments with Adobe, is bad news for users. Adobe really needs to explain to the world why it has forced Microsoft to do this.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 02 June 2006 |
There has been a huge jump in the amount of content purchased for mobile phones in the past year, according to an Ausralian consumer survey. The survey, launched by the Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA), showed two thirds of people have purchased content for their mobile phone in the past twelve months. At the same time last year, only half of those surveyed had purchased content, indicating marked growth in the mobile content industry in the last year.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 02 June 2006 |
Number two chip maker AMD has released a bunch of announcements concerning the future direction of its AMD64 platform. The announcements include details of next-generation microprocessor architecture in the server, desktop and mobile space covering both hardware and software. AMD also announced plans for a new high-performance enthusiast platform.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 02 June 2006 |
Some may think that about the last thing you would expect to come out of the development labs of Linux vendor Red Hat is a social networking site for geeks. However, when you think about it, Linux forums are basically primitive and narrowly focussed social networking sites. Red Hat's Mugshot, however, is something quite different.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 02 June 2006 |
The Xbox 360 games bulletin boards are buzzing with angry gamers complaining about Xbox 360 compatibility issues since Microsoft entertainment boss Peter Moore told games website Kikizo (www.kikizo.com) that the company has stopped working on making more Xbox games backwardly compatible.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 02 June 2006 |
Rattled by the stranglehold that Apple has over the portable music market, a Microsoft led consortium of nine companies based in Japan plan to develop an iPod killer using Windows Media Player.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 02 June 2006 |
Anti-virus leader Symantec Corp, under threat from Microsoft's entry its territory, has launched a counter-attack with the announcement of a new consumer PC security service to be branded Norton 360.
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by Stan Beer
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Friday, 02 June 2006 |
June 1, 2006 will go down in the annals of history as the day when Microsoft starting nagging pirate Windows XP users around the world to pay up for a genuine copy or suffer the consequences of continual pop-up balloons.
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