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Android on the rise – cheap tablets go ballistic

19 June 2013 in Mobility

The ANZ tablet market more than doubled last year. Most of the growth was inncheap Android devices. Tablets are now…

Will Huawei buy Nokia?

19 June 2013 in Deals

The Chinese giant says it is ‘open’ to the idea of buying the troubled mobile phone maker.

Shipments of NFC handsets treble in a year

19 June 2013 in Mobility

Global sales of handsets featuring Near Field Communication (NFC) grew 300% in last year, to reach 140 million units.

BlackBerry Q10 QWERTY’s down under 1 July

18 June 2013 in Mobility

OK Crackberry fans – out with the old and in with the new. Your fix has arrived.

Security backdoors extremely prevalent

18 June 2013 in Security

According to Wikipedia a backdoor (or cryptosystem or algorithm) is a method of bypassing normal authentication, securing illegal local or…

Huawei to provide 4G LTE network to NZ’s 2degrees in early 2014

18 June 2013 in Mobility

In a move that delights Huawei and 2degrees and makes the paranoid more so Huawei will provide the 4G LTE…

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Android gets unofficial 'incognito mode'

19 June 2013 in Mobility

With all the talk around the NSA and surveillance, one developer has taken things into his own hands, creating a…

Video shows fast-cat robot in action

18 June 2013 in Energy

Modeled after the motion of a cat, a robotic design has been developed by the Swiss lab EPFL to simulate…

Good ramps up for Australia, New Zealand growth

18 June 2013 in People

Mobile security solutions vendor, Good Technology created a new position of Vice President and General Manager for its Australia and…

Security not my responsibility say Aussies with app downloads

18 June 2013 in Security

Mobile app downloads from the Apple Store have soared to 50 billion around the world, and a new survey of…

Dimension Data, Oakton come together in new alliance

18 June 2013 in Strategy

Global IT services provider, Dimension data, has forged a strategic partnership with Australian-listed technology and business consulting company, Oakton to…

How secure is that security camera?

18 June 2013 in Security

Craig Heffner, a former US National Security Agency (NSA) software developer will demonstrate how to hack the myriad of public…

Yellowfin signs up iOLAP to US reseller agreement

18 June 2013 in Market

Texas-based Business Intelligence (BI) consulting, services and solutions provider, iOLAP, has signed a reseller agreement with Australian BI and analytics…

XCOM: Enemy Unknown for IOS release date confirmed

18 June 2013 in Entertainment

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is an enjoyable experience, and soon one that can be experienced by millions more people.  The release…

Huawei – the Chinese smartphone (and just about everything else) maker that can

18 June 2013 in Mobility

We have to hope that the Chinese Government is not relying on Huawei to keep state secrets because it leaks…

We are watching you – and advertisers like what they see

18 June 2013 in ShawThing

US Republicans Michael Capuano and Walter Jones have introduced a new bill that could stop technology from monitoring TV viewers…

Outlook.Com – no more linked accounts, use aliases instead

18 June 2013 in Security

  If you use multiple email addresses linked to Outlook.com, come July you will need to set up aliases and/or…

Oxford Dictionary learns how to tweet

18 June 2013 in Home IT

The Oxford English Dictionary received a techy boost today, adding 'live-blogging', 'crowdsourcing' and 'tweeting' to its collection of words.

Porsche builds a go-kart

18 June 2013 in Home IT

Porsche has long been known for creating envy between neighbours, and now kids can get in on the action too.

Wayne Swans around with new app

18 June 2013 in People

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan today released an app for constituents in his marginal seat, allowing them direct contact with the…

Instagram to add videos on June 20

18 June 2013 in Mobility

Instagram and Facebook are planning to add short videos to the Instagram app, according to online reports.

An app to help take the anxiety out of life

17 June 2013 in Development

An Australian-invented app which its developer says will reduce the enormous burden of anxiety and stress among the world’s population…

You can send a telescope into space

17 June 2013 in Space

Asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources and crowdsourcing web company Freelancer.com are teaming up with a contest to launch the first publicly…

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Sam Varghese

A professional journalist with decades of experience, Sam for nine years used DOS and then Windows, which led him to start experimenting with GNU/Linux in 1998. Since then he has written widely about the use of both free and open source software, and the people behind the code. His personal blog is titled Irregular Expression.

In the aftermath of one of its most dramatic announcements, Red Hat, the premier Linux company, continues to demonstrate that its main strengths lie in things other than technology.

Red Hat will switch the default database in its enterprise distribution, RHEL, from MySQL to MariaDB, when version 7 is released.

Young Americans who drive souped-up cars had better watch their tongues when discussing their four-wheeled wonders with friends. Just one sentence, "My car is a bomb" will ensure that a NSA man lands up to try and defuse a terror plot.

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