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Health related apps are the next big thing for smartphones.
The Labor government has slashed $2.8 Billion from education - $900 million from university budgets, scrapping HECS discounts for upfront payment by students and ‘saving’ at least $500 million by limiting annual, work related, self-education expense tax deductions to $2,000. All are a tragedy but the latter is a real setback for all.
Generally speaking most recent cars have an on-board computer (called an engine control unit) that uses a 32bit, nominally 40Mhz, ARM based SOC and runs some version of Linux.
A new industry alliance, the CloudEthernet Forum, has been formed to address the issues raised by virtualisation and cloud services spread across geographically dispersed data centres.
Fair and Reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing is being mandated in an effort to stop company ‘A’ unreasonably preventing company ‘B’s’ use of patented rights.
Microsoft and Google have ended the very public clash over the YouTube app for Windows Phone 8.
Touch and to an extent voice may be good user interfaces for smartphones and tablets but you have to have very long arms for desktop and smart TV use.
At the end of May 2013, the three planets of Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus will be visible together in the evening sky -- something you won’t see again until 2026.
Google today announced that it has been taking its Street View Trekker and its underwater Street View cameras to the Galapagos Islands, for an underwater survey.
Apple has topped the rankings of supply chain companies for a record breaking sixth year in a row, easily outstripping other companies, notably Amazon and McDonalds, who traded places this year, with the fast food chain giant stepping up to number two and Amazon dropping to third.
