South Korean manufacturer LG this morning finally released its premium Optimus G smartphone onto the Australian market making it available through Telstra from today. At a launch held at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, LG ...
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Are we getting lazy - lazy enough to spur an entire industry dedicated to eliminating cables for transferring photos from cameras to our desktops? The work involved in plugging in a USB cable to a camera port, and the other end into a PC, ...
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Andy Rubin, the brains behind the Google Android operating system which has become the dominant mobile platform, is stepping down as head of that division, the company said on Wednesday. Google chief Larry Page announced that Sundar ...
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Hackers can influence real-time traffic-flow-analysis systems to make people drive into traffic jams or to keep roads clear in areas where a lot of people use Google or Waze navigation systems, a German researcher demonstrated at BlackHat ...
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Facebook reportedly is taking a page from social networking rival Twitter and may start using the hashtag Facebook is getting ready to use the hashtag to group conversations, photos and videos, but the move doesn't appear to be imminent, ...
Joe Doucet Studio today launches its popular, physics-based puzzle game, Piece Corps for Kindle and Mac OSx. Piece Corps is now available for download from the Amazon app store and has also been optimized to work on more Apple devices, ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its Elastic Beanstalk to include Node.js, in an effort to make it easier to deploy and manage application development on its cloud. Elastic Beanstalk allows developers to upload an application and ...
Adobe today patched Flash Player, the fifth time this year it's updated the vulnerability-plagued software. Unlike two of the three updates last month, however, today's was part of Adobe's regularly-scheduled patch cadence. Last ...
Weekly classified magazine Auto Trader's shift to digital-only has been helped by its switch to a TelecityGroup datacentre, according to Tim Jones, the CIO of Trader Media Group (TMG), which owns the title. In an interview with Computing, ...
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Google has paid out $7m (£4.6m) across 38 US states in a legal settlement over the "inappropriate" harvesting of personal data that occurred during its Street View project between 2008 and 2010. Data included emails, passwords and ...
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Microsoft later today will reverse a months-long practice in how Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) handles Adobe's Flash Player on Windows 8's and Windows RT's Modern user interfaces. The change will be pushed to users along with the March ...
Google showed off apps and audio and gesture control features for Google Glass at the South by South West (SXSW) conference in Austin this week. Timothy Jordan, a senior developer advocate at Google, was at the conference in Austin on ...
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Aggressive sales of smaller tablets triggered a revised tablet sales forecast today by IDC, which upped its projections by 11% for 2013 and said Android would supplant Apple's iOS as the dominant operating system this year. "The shift to ...
Google will pay $7 million to settle complaints from dozens of U.S. states about its unauthorized collection of personal data transmitted over Wi-Fi networks. The money will be paid to 37 states and the District of Columbia, which had ...
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South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a "next big thing" at this year's event, finding it would be pretty ...
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