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by Tony Austin
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 |
After extensive beta testing, Sun Microsystems has released update 10 of its Java Platform Standard Edition 6, with many significant enhancements. Will this lead to a resurgence of Java applications on the desktop and the Web?
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by Tony Austin
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
A survey a study by Bulldog Reporter and TEKgroup
International, Inc. shows how journalists are increasing their usage of Web 2.0
technologies to research, follow and report news and features.
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by Tony Austin
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
SkypeOut enables you to make inexpensive voice calls from your PC to the
switched telephone network, to destinations anywhere in the world. Here's another
update on call quality and pricing plans.
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by Tony Austin
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
McGill University researchers say they have discovered a previously unknown
state of matter that might have a momentous impact on creation of new electronic
devices.
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by Tony Austin
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
Psssst, keep this to yourself, buddy. Let me tell you about a bunch of free
cheat sheets for technology professionals.
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by Tony Austin
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
IBM announced, in mid-October, new client agreements in growth markets across
the Asia Pacific region. Deals were inked in China, India, Korea, the
Philippines and Vietnam.
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by Tony Austin
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Saturday, 25 October 2008 |
Some 600 years after construction began, China's Palace Museum and IBM opened
the sprawling walled fortress to the world via an immersive 3D virtual
experience.
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by Tony Austin
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
In this podcast with Peter Mahoney, VP of worldwide sales for Nuance
Communications, get an update on Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, and find out
more about speech recognition, its benefits and potential, products such as
Google Android and Palm Treo with embedded Nuance technology, and where speech
recognition is headed.
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by Tony Austin
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
The first of an occasional series recommending some excellent, serious IT
publications that are available for the asking via the Web, and nearly all of
them are free.
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by Tony Austin
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
In this iTWire podcast, the Director of IBM Australia's Development Laboratory
explains how it works on many different types of software and hardware projects,
the IBM worldwide network of development and pure research labs, and gives his
views on emerging technologies to watch.
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by Tony Austin
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Saturday, 18 October 2008 |
Are you aware that you can see archived pages from a wide range of Web sites,
going back to the 1990s in some cases? It's fascinating to see what things were
like way, way back in the Internet dark ages!
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by Tony Austin
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Saturday, 18 October 2008 |
The Green IT Report 2008, just published by Capgemini, examines the IT
industry’s green credentials and an assessment of how industry leaders are
dealing with environmental responsibility, sustainability and corporate social
responsibility, also looking at what both IT vendors and users should do to
implement a successful green IT strategy.
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by Tony Austin
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
The GeoEye-1 satellite, launched in September, has just taken its first
high-resolution photos and they're looking crystal clear in comparison with
those we're used to so far with Google Maps.
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by Tony Austin
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Monday, 13 October 2008 |
With its vast resources Microsoft certainly has developed (and continues to
develop) some excellent products. But they have also rolled out some very
average ones and even some real shockers. Do you agree with this list of the
goodies and the baddies? Have your say!
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