The release of Microsoft's Windows 8 touchscreen-enabled operating system in October saw manufacturers scurry to release a spate of new notebooks, all-in-one computers and tablet devices capable of using it. With Windows 8 you can open ...
Tags: HP, Lenovo, Windows 8, Touchscreen Ultrabooks
Apple Australia says it is making some MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models more affordable with faster processors and lower starting prices. In Australia,the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display will now cost from $1,649 for a device ...
Tags: Apple, Processors, Consumer Electronics
InTouch Health, a provider of telemedicine solutions, has introduced a remote care ControlStation (CS) App for iPad. Using a single intuitive interface, Doctors can now connect from iPads and iPad Minis to offer patient care through any ...
The scary stories from the Web are getting worse.First there were a few stolen credit card numbers.Then there were a few thousand.Now we hear about millions of financial records being exposed by security breaches,and we grow numb to the ...
Tags: Code Safeguard, Developers, Internet
Research in Motion today will launch its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone in what is its last chance to regain lost market share. RIM's share of the smartphone market was a healthy 19.5 per cent in late 2008 (Apples iPhone then had 10.7 per ...
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Mobicip , the parental control and internet safety service for mobiles, today announced the availability of a new 'monitoring-only' mode of operation to subscribers of its Premium Web Monitor service. Mobicip offers a parental control ...
ST George Bank is about to unveil a service that displays customers' bank and credit balances instantly on Android smartphones without the need to log on. The bank is putting the finishing touches to the widget, which it plans to launch ...
Tags: ST George Bank, smartphone, credit balances
Sun, sand, surf and now smartphones are part of the beach experience for the nation's lifesavers who perform about 12,000 rescues a year. Surf Life Saving Australia has introduced a suite of mobile risk apps and will pilot a ...
Tags: smartphone, lifesavers, Australia
Cloud Desktop is an entire computer system including operating system and applications in the Cloud, accessible via any browser and without any plug-in or software installation. Mikogo, the global provider of online collaboration ...
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Representatives of newly launched file-storage and sharing service Mega addressed some of the concerns raised by security researchers in recent days about the site's architecture and the implementation of its cryptographic features. In a ...
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Google thinks it might have found an answer to the vexing problem of forgotten or weak passwords: "physical" passwords, which might come in the form of a piece of jewelry such as a ring. In a research paper, two of its engineers write ...
Tags: Google, passwords, hijacking, online accounts
UTAH-based Fusion-io is making waves in Silicon Valley. With companies such as Facebook and Apple as clients, the $US2 billion ($1.9bn) start-up produces so-called NAND flash boards that are becoming a building block of modern data centres. ...
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VODAFONE has renewed calls for a review into how much telecom companies pay one another when their customers make calls to mobile phones, claiming that consumers have been ripped off to the tune of $1.3 billion by Telstra's intransigence to ...
Tags: VODAFONE, telecom, mobile phones
THINGS are getting increasingly touchy in the computer world. Touchscreens, which most of us have on our smartphones or tablets, are spreading to the full-size personal computing arena. They're increasingly common on notebook PCs, ...
Tags: computer, smartphones, tablets, touchscreen
Showing what can happen when companies don't periodically review network logs, a software developer working for a large U.S. critical infrastructure company hired a Chinese firm to do his job so he could spend time surfing Reddit and ...
Tags: network logs, software, critical infrastructure, IT