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IBM Top Cloud Co: Study

Staff Writers March 7, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge The report, released this week by Longhaus, selects IBM as the top infrastructure-as-a-service Cloud for enterprise in Australia, citing its flexible billing options and low commitment formula.…

Apple Shoots To No.1 Consumer PC Oz

Staff Writers March 5, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge The Australia New Zealand PC market enjoyed “solid” 6% annual growth in 2011, with 6.8m computers shipped despite “supply side challenges and weakening consumer demand,” analysts IDC…

Final Day Before Google Alters Privacy

Staff Writers February 29, 2012 No Comments

Google is getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies and replacing them with one single policy that it says is “much easier to read” and comes into effect from…

Take Note: Samsung 5″ Phablet Hits Voda

Staff Writers February 14, 2012 No Comments

However, the 5.3″ Samsung Galaxy Note, which has already been hailed as strictly a smartphone and definitely “not a tablet” by reviewers in the US, although it still got 5/6…

Look Out Dropbox! Google Cloud “Coming”

Staff Writers February 10, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Rumour has it cloud based storage, a la Apple iCloud or Microsoft SkyDrive, simply called ‘Drive’, is next to emerge from Google’s goodie bag, set for launch…

CAUGHT! Security Cameras Spying Via Web

Staff Writers February 8, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Here’s what one user posted on Reddit. TrendNet security IP cameras have been exposed as secretly allowing external audiences spy on its owners, via the internet. The…

Windows PCs Now Kinecting With Voice & Gesture Controls

Staff Writers February 6, 2012 No Comments

The Windows dedicated Kinect controller has benefitted from some custom enhancements, including a larger in depth sensor that is capable of recognising objects within 40 centimetres. By comparison, the Xbox…

Slump In TV Sales Hurts Toshiba: 138M

David Richards January 31, 2012 No Comments

The Company whose third quarter operating profit fell 72% said that profit margin in its memory-chip business dropped to less than 11% from more than 20% in the second quarter,…

Mega ‘Insane’: Who IS Dr Dotcom?

Staff Writers January 24, 2012 No Comments

Click to enlarge Kim Dotcom now finds himself in hotwater with FBI. The 38 year-old multi millionaire, Kim Dotcom (formerly Schmidz before he changed his name) is the man behind…

Professionals Don’t Find Apple’s iPad A Worthy Laptop Substitute

Staff Writers January 18, 2012 No Comments

An IDG Connect report published this week found 91 per cent of businesses that have deployed the iPad do use it primarily for work. “Much has been written about the…