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Man dies after marathon games session ... THE death of a Taiwanese man while playing video games at an internet cafe appeared to have gone unnoticed for up to nine hours. ...
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E-Health body savaged at inquiry ... THE corporation established to roll out electronic health records has been savaged by software industry and privacy advocates. ...
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Google faces privacy rollout delay ... THE European Union's data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy. ...
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Defer e-health system, says consultant ... A LEADING e-health consultant says the government's e-health systems is not complete and bills establishing it should be deferred. ...
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E-health system flawed, says alliance ... THE Consumers e-Health Alliance says the approach to developing Australia's e-health record system is flawed. ...
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HP CEO Whitman's package worth $15.4m ... HEWLETT-PACKARD ushered in Meg Whitman as CEO with a $US16.5 million ($A15.4m) package conditional on her success at the helm. ...
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Apple and Motorola in iCloud dogfight ... A GERMAN court has forced Apple to temporarily withdraw some iPhone models as part of a patent legal dispute with Motorola Mobility. ...
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Facebook chief up for $1.8bn in taxes ... FACEBOOK founder Mark Zuckerberg may face a tax bill this year of more than $US2 billion ($1.85bn). ...
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Micron CEO killed in plane crash ... MICRON Technology has appointed Mark Durcan, 51, chief executive following the death of Steven Appleton in a plane crash on Friday. ...
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Murdoch tweets views on leadership ... RUPERT Murdoch has ventured into the Labor leadership issue, using the outlet becoming his preferred method of airing his views. ...
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Apple widens patent claims against Samsung ... APPLE has widened its claims against Samsung in its ongoing patent battle with the Korean electronics maker. ...
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PlayStation veteran is new Sony CEO ... Sony has tapped Kazuo Hirai, a veteran of its PlayStation business, to be its next CEO. ...
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Internet pair ready to fuse networks ... IINET and Internode want to be well-placed for the NBN ...
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Unified financials eases reporting ... SALTA Group had difficulty getting a consolidated view of its two businesses due to reliance on manual processes. ...
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Apps development goes mobile ... THE rise of mobile applications will ramp up demand for skills this year. ...
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Demand strong for key-position starts ... HI-TECH employers are more likely than those in other sectors to undertake "restricted hiring" over the next 12 months. ...
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Vivant team proves hot property ... VIVANT managing director Anthony Farah says his team of developers is regularly headhunted by other companies. ...
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Facebook poised for $100bn float ... FACEBOOK founder Mark Zuckerberg will move to crystallise a $25 billion paper fortune this week with preparations for a stock market float. ...
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Telstra now up to speed with 4G ... AUSTRALIA'S only fourth-generation mobile phone network opens for business for calls today. ...
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Calls for legislation to be scrapped ... THE Greens say a decision by US legislators to delay the introduction of anti-piracy laws doesn't go far enough. ...
Herald Sun | Technology
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Kindle Smartphone 'to hit market in 2012' ... AMAZON is set to release its own a smartphone in 2012, in a move designed to push the company's digital media content. ...
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TV puts callers in the picture ... AUSTRALIANS will soon be able to leave video phone answering machine messages for each other on their big-screen TV. ...
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Complaints to telcos hit record high ... COMPLAINTS over mobile phone and internet "bill shock" have reached record levels, statistics by the nation's watchdog reveal. ...
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Parents keep tab on kids on Facebook ... MORE than half the nation's mums join Facebook to keep an eye on their children's social networking. ...
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Net users aren't socially isolated ... FAR from turning us into socially isolated and selfish web surfers, the internet is actually good for us, a major new study has found. ...
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Apple's great white hope hits Australia ... AFTER months of speculation and delays, Apple has finally announced it will release a white iPhone 4 in Australia. ...
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Nintendo to reveal latest game changer ... JAPANESE video game giant Nintendo has confirmed it will introduce a new games machine next year. ...
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Bloody violence on the Wii console ... A NEW shooter game on the family friendly Nintendo Wii puts a realistic sniper rifle in players' hands. ...
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Facebook friendships world map ... A MAP of Facebook friendships shows the world's connections across cities and countries. ...
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Warcraft wows online world ... The latest chapter in "World of Warcraft" sold more than 3.3 million copies in just 24 hours on the market. ...
eGovernment Resource Centre - Broadband Digest
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Victorian Government Submission to the 2011-12 Re ... 2011-12 Regional Telecommunications Review, December 2011. ...
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Victorian Government submits recommendations to r ... Media Release, From the Minister for Technology, Friday, 20 January 2012. ...
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Victorian Govt still disappointed in NBN ... Written by Renai LeMay. Delimier, Monday, January 23, 2012. ...
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ACCC commences public consultation on NBN Co Spec ... Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Release # NR 251/11, Issued: 20th December 2011. ...
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Commerce Commission releases issues paper on high ... New Zealand Commerce Commission, Media Release, 19 December 2011. ...
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Federal Government supports high-speed digital Au ... Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Media Release, 15 December 2011. ...
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Nearly three-quarters of Australian households no ... Australian Bureau of Statistics, 15 December 2011 - 162/2011. ...
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After the Stimulus: Broadband and Economic Develo ... Community Broadband Snapshot Report. National survey report prepared by: Craig Settles, October 2011. ...
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8 Surprising Findings About the Broadband Economy ... By Craig Settles. Government Technology, December 15, 2011. ...
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Government to invest $20m in 'NBN-ready' educatio ... by Stuart Corner. IT Wire, Thursday, 15 December 2011. ...
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Is Microsoft killing off the Windows Start button ... In the leadup to the release of Windows 8, leaked preview images of Microsoft's next OS un ...
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Best Apps for BlackBerry, February 2012 ... Check out the latest and greatest in apps for your BlackBerry with our monthly app roundup. ...
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Overclockers rejoice: GIGABYTE X79-UD7 review ... The OC board lives on in the new form of the GIGABYTE X79-UD7. ...
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Serious business: Lexmark X548dte review ... Fast, high-quality printing on offer from Lexmark's latest business MFD. ...
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Good bang for your buck: MSI X79A-GD65 8D review ... Exceptional hardware doesn't always mean your products have polish, but does ...
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Building a PC gaming beast for Battlefield 3 ... We put together an affordable machine that can run Battlefield 3 with all the bells and whistles. ...
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Leader Companion SC410 - large screen Ultrabook f ... Leader may not be the best known laptop brand, but its new, 14in ...
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ASUS Zenbook UX31E - stunning mid-range Ultrabook ... The UX31E is arguably the best looking Ultrabook released ...
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RIM's new hope? Next-gen BlackBerry 10 'London' l ... Following a tumultuous year, hopes for a return to form for BlackBerry maker RIM are being pinned on i ...
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HP Pavilion dv6 - bargain AMD A-Series A6 allroun ... The $586 price tag for the HP Pavilion dv6-6b00ax is stunning ...
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Smartcompany Business Tech Talk
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Dick Smith’s evolutionary story ... Woolworths’ announcement earlier this week they are exiting the Dick Smith Electronics business ends an interesting study in how a business can evolve as their industry changes ...
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The Informed Upstart ... This week consulting firm Gartner started the Australian leg of their Gartner Predicts series of presentations where the firm’s consultants look at what will be the big IT issues of the year. ...
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Closed for business ... Many industries hoped this Christmas was going to be their saviour; across the country businesses in the retail, tourism, real estate and many other service sectors hoped they'd see an upbeat end to a tough year. ...
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Five essential cloud computing tools for business ... This article first appeared on September 29, 2011 What are the essential cloud computing services? ...
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The year of the cloud ... I was asked last week to join a panel on a competing website reviewing the year that was in technology. One of the things that came out of the session was much of what happened in the tech world over the last year w ...
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Why IT aren’t the people to run your Twitter ac ... "Our IT guy has been looking after our social media strategy," grumbled the boss of a medium-sized business, "we don't really know much about that stuff." ...
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The online power of words ... Last week Sensis launched the Australian version of Yelp (http://technologyspectator.com.au/emerging-tech/social-media/dying-yelp-sensis), a popular US web service that uses customer reviews to find and rank local b ...
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The business playground ... Earlier this week, I was lucky to head over to Griffith to talk about digital citizenship (http://www.slideshare.net/paulwallbank/digital-citizenship-10403694) with local school kids and their parents. ...
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Santa's web strategies ... Regardless of what sector your business is in, the web has become the way customers find us. Giving the key information shoppers are looking for is a good start to getting their business. ...
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Social media overload ... Last week Google launched their business Pages function for their social media network Google+ and the rush to claim another little bit of online real estate began. ...
Technology Digital Home - Yahoo!7 News
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How to identify fake Facebook accounts (CNET Aust ... Hello, Facebook friends, I am male, straight, often ridiculously good-looking, and this is a real message: she's not that into you. ...
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What is 4K TV? Super high-definition TV explained ... As if LED and 3D TV weren't confusing enough, 2012 and beyond will bring a high-definition TV (HDTV) technology called 4K. It's being heralded as the next high-def and manufacturers are already lining up to bring yo ...
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The human cost of consuming: It's not just Apple ... Apple's outrageous success has a dark side. But does that mean it's time to stop buying Apple products? ...
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Sony's 3D goggles: TV of the future? (CNET Austra ... This 420g head-worn device is capable of displaying what appears to be a 750-inch screen from 20m away without, well, finding space for a 750-inch screen. ...
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SOPA lessons for Australia (CNET Australia) ... PIPA and SOPA may be dead in the water for now, but it's worth remembering that the most controversial part of the legislation is something the Australian Government has been thinking about for years. ...
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How to customise your Facebook timeline photo (CN ... Converting your Facebook profile to the new Timeline layout gives you a nice big piece of photo real estate to play with at the top of the screen. ...
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Hackers fight back after piracy arrests (CNET Aus ... Website attacks ranged far and wide today, with online activists allegedly taking aim at more than a dozen websites of organisations with ties to controversial piracy legislation. ...
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SOPA blackouts weaken Bill support (CNET Australi ... An unprecedented online protest against a Hollywood-backed copyright Bill may be working: some of its previous supporters in the US Congress are backing down. ...
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Hackers attacking through websites for kids (CNET ... Beware gaming websites for kids — they may look cute and innocent, but they're increasingly becoming targets for hackers to infect your computer with malware. ...
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The coolest and craziest of CES 2012 (CNET Austra ... While we get to see some brilliant new tech at CES every year, by far the most fun part is when it veers left-of-centre. Here are some of the coolest and craziest gadgets we saw at CES 2012. ...
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Happy birthday: The iPad turns two (CNET Australi ... Two years ago, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs took to the stage to unveil what was perhaps one of the most-rumoured devices the company had ever concocted. ...
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Six ways tech will change travel (CNET Australia) ... Collaboration and 4G networks will be the key technology shifts in the travel industry between now and 2020, according to a study commissioned by Amadeus and developed by The Futures Company. ...
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Mobile tech wish list for travellers (CNET Austra ... Mobility is one of the key trends for the year, and with more employees hitting the road for work, technology will play an increasingly key role in boosting their productivity and efficiency as well as making the tr ...
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Best apps for Australia Day (CNET Australia) ... No matter how you decide to spend our national day of celebrating all things Aussie, with these apps on your phone, she'll be right, mate. ...
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Telstra launches Australia's first 4G phone (CNET ... Telstra has launched the first long-term evolution (LTE), or "4G" handset in Australia, the HTC Velocity. ...
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Top starter apps for the iPad (CNET Australia) ... Have you just gotten your paws on your very first iPad? Hooray! But you don't want to leave it like that, do you? No. So let's get your feet on the road to appiness, navigating the twisty and confusing paths of the ...
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Top apps for your new Android tablet (CNET Austra ... Did you score a new Android tablet for Christmas? You probably ripped it out of its packaging, powered it up and wondered what to do next. Here we've collected 25 great apps to help bring your new tablet to life. ...
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Nissan develops self-healing, scratchproof iPhone ... Nissan has applied its self-healing paint technology to an iPhone case that can heal itself of scratches and scrapes. ...
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How to spot a fake tablet (CNET Australia) ... Buyers looking for the latest hot tablet should be careful where and how they do their shopping. ...
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Best e-readers in Australia (CNET Australia) ... E-readers are now par for the course in Australia, with quite a few clamouring for dominance on our southern shores. But each device claims benefits over its rivals; how do you know which one is the e-reader for you ...
ZDNet Australia
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BigPond hit by email issues ... in brief Email for some Telstra BigPond customers may not be reaching its final destination, with the company investigating a delivery issue that has been hitting the company since the weeken ...
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E-health records on track: government ... The Department of Health and Ageing and the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) have rejected claims that NEHTA has mismanaged the national e-health record implementation. Respo ...
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SA govt preps for 2012 procurement ... The South Australian Government is planning a briefing with ...
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Nerdcam in space ... This week we venture into space to celebrate NASA's latest achievements and to announce a special project of our own. NASA ...
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E-health records risk patient safety: MSIA ... The Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA) has claimed there are systemic problems with the government's e-health identifier specifications that risk patient safety and has called for an overhaul to ...
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Quickflix looks to avoid Netflix's failures ... Home-grown streaming service Quickflix is rapidly gaining momentum after content giant Home Box Office (HBO) today made a multimillion-dollar investment in the company, but Quickflix founder Stephen Langs ...
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ZDNet App Wrap: 6 February 2012 ... There are always cool new apps coming out, so it's hard to keep up. ZDNet Australia brings you a taste of some of the apps that have surfaced or been updated recently. ...
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Body scanners coming to airports in July ... Passengers heading in and out of Australia's international airports will be facing random screenings via new body scanners set to be deployed around the country from July, with the government insisting th ...
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Reset expectations on e-health: AMA ... The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has called on the Federal Government to "reset expectations" that it will deliver e-health records to Australians ...
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Apple wins eleventh-hour bid to avoid ban ... Apple has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its online store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents betwe ...
PC & Tech Authority
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Future tech: touchscreen books ... Wish you could fold your iPad up and stick it in your pocket? Touchscreen origami here we come... ...
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Apple won't keep iBooks Author distribution right ... Pale-faced writers everywhere, rejoice! Apple's new publishing tool won't lock down your great works. ...
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White Samsung Galaxy Nexus hits shelves on Februa ... Fancy an Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone with an all-white iPhone-style makeover? Samsung has you covered... ...
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Has Samsung created a curved, flexible smartphone ... New snaps appear to show a mystery Samsung handset with a slinky S-shaped build – but will we see it in 2012? ...
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Opinion: Why Google's Nexus tablet is incoming ... Google's just hired a senior hardware director from Apple so we might be seeing a Nexus-branded tablet sooner than we thought. ...
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Apple iTV specs spotted in Best Buy survey ... Has the US retailer's imagination run away with it or does Best Buy know something about the rumoured TV set that we don't? ...
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R.I.P. Windows start button? ... Those who have viewed Microsoft's consumer preview of Windows 8 claim there is a noteworthy omission: the Start button. ...
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Skype for Windows gets full HD calling ... Got a 1080p webcam? Now you have something to do with it: Skype has added full HD webcam support to its latest release. ...
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Apple's patent means you could soon be racing you ... Apple has patented a new fitness technology that lets you see your friends' performances in real time as you exercise. ...
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RIM giving away free BlackBerry PlayBooks to Andr ... App wizards take note, you could nab a free tablet by porting over your existing Android apps to BlackBerry's fledgling tablet ...
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Iran successfully sends Navid (Gospel) into space ... On Friday, February 3, 2012, the state news agency of Iranian reported that its national space agency (Iranian Space Agency) successfully launched another mission into space, this time sending its Navid (Gospel) ...
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N-able growing its MSP base ... N-able, the Canada-based supplier of the N-central platform for managed service providers, is investing in the Asia Pacific region. That includes Australia, where it already serves the most MSPs per capita. ...
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Telstra to offer LTE version of Cisco Cius Androi ... Telstra is to offer, in coming months, an LTE version of the Cisco Cius Android based tablet, presently available only with WiFi and bluetooth. ...
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Possible responses to Optus TV Now case threaten ... Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, is reportedly foreshadowing changes in the legislation to stop Optus offering its TV Now service, following the company's court ...
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Video games industry doing it tough, but makes $1 ... Despite general economic uncertainties, Australia’s interactive games industry remains upbeat despite a 12.8 per cent contraction in ‘traditional retail’ computer and video games sal ...
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St George website off air ... St George Bank’s website is currently experiencing “technical issues” – although it’s still possible to log on and use the online banking and business banking services suggesting that the core banking s ...
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LibreOffice making steady progress ... A little more than a year after The Document Foundation was set up to look after LibreOffice, the fork of the former OpenOffice.org project, it seems that Oracle did the users of the latter office suite a great f ...
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The accidental CIO: Kerry Holling ... Charles Darwin would appreciate Kerrie Holling's ability to ...
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Home Box Office pumps $10m into Quickflix ... Australian online DVD rental and online movie service, Quickflix (ASX: QFX) has received a ringing endorsement from US cable TV giant Home Box Office which is paying $10m for a 15.7 percent stake in the company. ...
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How to hard reset your smartphone ... Like your computer the best way to give your system a performance boost is to take it back to bare metal. In smartphone terms, that means performaing a hard reset. Here's our guide on performing a hard reset on t ...
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Piwik best alternative to Urchin! Web Analytics v ... Urchin development and support will be discontinued by Google as of March 2012. Urchin was a Log Analysis software bought by Google in 2005. They have used this software as a base for Google Analytics and have now a ...
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Piwik Stickers design contest, prizes! ... Piwik Stickers Contest Everyone loves stickers, we can use 'em to jazz up your car, laptop, books or even lamp posts! Therefore, we would love to offer beautiful Piwik stickers to the community. So, we are laun ...
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New: Quality Piwik T-shirts now available! ... Now you can buy your VERY OWN custom Piwik t-shirt or hoody in our Piwik merchandise shop. We have partnered with our friends at ooShirts.com, a customized tshirts company that provides great, high quality prints fo ...
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Announcing Piwik meetup in Munich, Germany on Oct ... Updated Nov 2011: the meetup was a great success, 30 people were present and lots of interesting moments and presentations. The slides can be found at the end of this post. Stay tuned on this blog for the next Piwik ...
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How can we improve the website piwik.org? Feedbac ... We believe the website piwik.org does a good job, but it can be improved and hopefully serve the Piwik community better. In particular, we are planning to work on a website redesign for piwik.org website, which cont ...
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Ecommerce Analytics is Hard ... One of the key features in v1.5 of Piwik is the ability to track ecommerce events, like viewing a product, placing items in a shopping cart, and purchasing an order. The Piwik team has been working with the folks at ...
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Export statistics from Apache log files to Piwik ... Apache2Piwik, a script written in Python under GPL license, enables exporting statistics from Apache logs to Piwik! Log files are known to contain a wealth of information about activity on a website, and are usually ...
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Piwik 1.5 released! Ecommerce Analytics, Custom V ... We are proud to release Piwik 1.5, after weeks of development and testing. Piwik 1.5 is a major upgrade, bringing amazing new features, better scalability and fixing a security issue affecting a minority of Piwik se ...
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Piwik Community Survey – Here are the results! ... A few weeks ago we asked the Piwik community to fill out a short survey to tell us where we should invest time going forward. Over 1,000 users filled out the survey in the past month and we have now found time to ...
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Piwik innovative with Javascript & Canvas Cha ... Piwik now uses jqPlot to render charts. jqPlot is a pure JavaScript plotting plugin for the jQuery framework created by Chris Leonello. jqPlot renders charts using the html5 canvas tag. Timo has finished his first m ...
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Hands-on with Sony PlayStation Vita ... It might be a bit pricey, but for proper gaming on the move the Vita is simply unbeatable. Read on for our first impressions... ...
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First look: Sony NEX-5N ... Does Sony’s new compact system camera have enough about it to stand out from the swappable lens crowd? Short answer: yes ...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic first impressions ... Take Warcraft, add better storytelling and the magic of Star Wars, and you're left with The Old Republic: an MMO par excellence. ...
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Apple iPhone 4S reviewed: is it a worthy upgrade? ... Everything you need to know about Apple's iPhone 4S, including design, Siri, the camera and IOS 5.0. Read our review. ...
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Product Brief: Microsoft SkyDrive for iOS ... The SkyDrive app lets you access the files you have chosen to store in the cloud in your SkyDrive from your iPhone, iPod or iPad. ...
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus review: it's the world's fas ... The first Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone is here, courtesy of Samsung and Google. We find out if it makes tasty eating. ...
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Synology DS411: a solid NAS ... Wonderful software and great performance make this a solid NAS. Read our review of the Synology DS411. ...
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Acer S3 review: The Ultrabook is here, and it imp ... The Ultrabook has landed and it delivers on the promise of ultra-thin and light computing for a reasonable price. ...
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AMD FX-8150 review: an average performer with goo ... After a long, long wait, AMD has finally delivered Bulldozer. We put the higher-end FX-8150 offering through its paces. ...
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Hands-on with the Amazon Kindle Fire ... Amazon's laser focus on media means the Fire is a superb value cloud gadget, but it's no iPad killer. ...