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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
The latest figures from Internet market watcher Net Applications show
that Microsoft's once totally dominant browser Internet Explorer
continues to have its market dominance eroded by Mozilla Firefox and
Apple Safari. In the past year IE has lost more than 7% share to its two rivals.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
The
king of forced software bundling, Microsoft, is all of a sudden acting
like a reformed citizen, enabling users to remove Internet Explorer 8
from the latest build of Windows 7 Beta. The build includes a dialogue
box that easily enables users to enable and disable functions by
ticking and unticking check boxes.
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by Stan Beer
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
The boss of one of Australia's largest ICT recruiters says the much
delayed National Broadband Network could provide hundreds of desperately
needed ICT jobs. ICT project managers are being let go by the hundreds
across Australia and recruiters are looking to the Telecoms sector to
keep the market afloat with projects like the NBN.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
The word around the traps is that Amazon is about to announce a free
application for the iPhone that will enable the same e-books available
on Kindle to be read on the popular Apple device, as well as the iPod
Touch. What's more, we may have announcements of Kindle being available
on other platforms in the future.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
Once again one of
Microsoft's worst kept secrets has been leaked, this time a new search
engine called Kumo, that is supposed to especially good at searching
for images. Is Kumo the saviour that Microsoft has been waiting for to
take on Google's 800 pound sumo or is it just a warmed up version of
Live Search?
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will be the greatest thing since sliced bread and is the answer to Australia's economic woes, if one is to believe the rhetoric from the Minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy at the world's biggest technology trade fair this week. Speaking to a high level conference on broadband at CeBIT in Hannover Germany, Senator Conroy equated the NBN with economic stimulus.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
As
numerous analysts have pointed out, desktop computers are on the way
out, yet here we are in the middle of a - dare I say it - depression
and Apple has just released a new range of premium priced desktop Macs.
Some people might say Apple are mad to bring out new desktops at this
time, but they would be mad if they didn't.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
A
CSIRO discovery could lead to a new boom industry that would not only
solve the world's energy problems but also its greenhouse gas concerns,
while creating much needed employment. It might sound too good to be
true, but the CSIRO, Australia's flagship research organisation, is no
pie in the sky organisation and it is deadly serious about this.
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by Stan Beer
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 |
A new report has confirmed that PC users in Australia are ditching
their desktops and fixed line Internet connections while turning to
notebooks and wireless technology. The report shows that the percentage of
homes owning notebooks is fast approaching that of desktops and that
broadband usage has reached saturation point.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
In
what is being termed as Australia’s biggest collaboration with China on
wireless communications research, the CSIRO and Chinese researchers
have launched a program to develop more environmentally friendly
wireless broadband base stations.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
IT
analyst group Gartner has officially said what we've all known and
feared since the last quarter of 2008 - the PC industry is going to
suffer its worst decline on record this year. Not even the burgeoning
netbooks market can save the market from a decline that will make the
dot com and post Y2K busts seem like booms.
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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
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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by Stan Beer
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
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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