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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
Apple briefly became the most valuable company in Silicon Valley when its closing stock price gave it a market capitalisation greater than that of Google.
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by Stephen Withers
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
International mobile roaming tariffs are back on the agenda with the completion of the KPMG report commissioned by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy for the House of Representatives' parliamentary inquiry. But are some analysts pointing us in the wrong direction?
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by Stephen Withers
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
The problem with online music stores in Australia has been that they force a tradeoff between full coverage of the major labels, or DRM schemes that prevent buyers listening to their purchases on whatever device they choose. Telstra's BigPond Music store has reached a deal with the big four labels allowing it to offer unprotected MP3s.
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by Stephen Withers
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
Can we please get a sense of proportion about the various issues being bandied around concerning MobileMe? Everyone from Steve Jobs down realises the rollout was a disaster, but some of the whining is becoming tedious.
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by Stephen Withers
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
Investigation of the coverage of Google Street View of upmarket parts of Melbourne seem to show that the some of the more swanky areas have not been photographed. Is this because the rich get the privilege of privacy or mere coincidence?
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by Stephen Withers
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
If you want to know what a particular urban area looks like without actually visiting it, Google Maps' Street View is about as good as it gets. But not everyone is happy about what's on display.
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by Stephen Withers
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
In a move that will be welcomed by net neutrality advocates, the US Federal Communications Commission has slammed Comcast for selectively blocking its customers' peer-to-peer traffic. The FCC has also ordered Comcast to take a number of measures to rectify the situation.
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
Security Update 2008-005 for Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.4 includes a newer version of BIND to overcome the DNS poisoning flaw. But questions are being asked about whether the update really does protect against this issue.
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
Late last week Apple finally released a security update for Mac OS X that includes a patched version of the BIND DNS software. In all, there were a dozen patches released including the potentially serious BIND fix.
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by Stephen Withers
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Monday, 04 August 2008 |
Apple has announced that it will open its second Sydney store in Chatswood on August 9 but to date there is still no word on when Melbourne and the other major capitals will get a store.
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by Stephen Withers
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
Apple has updated iTunes to version 7.7.1. The release comes hot on the heels of iTunes 7.7, which appeared alongside the iPhone 3G earlier this month.
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