Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Home ITIn what might be a less than welcome sign for the super popular “TripView” app on iOS and Android, Google is letting anyone ogle directions and upcoming schedules for trains, ferries and buses in the Australian state of New South Wales.
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Home ITWhen Twitter went down yesterday for a couple of hours, the world didn’t end, birds didn’t fall out of the sky, the Olympics weren’t postponed and no-one could Tweet to see if anyone knew whether Twitter was up or not.
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy LogicNews reports say that Twitter’s move to set up a local office is “imminent”, with a tweet from Australian’s deputy leader of the Federal Opposition, Julie Bishop stating she’s “looking forward” to Twitter’s Sydney office.
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy LogicIf you’re a big government person who believes government is the answer, and that government people should have ever more power to tax, spy, prod, investigate and interfere, you’ll probably be delighted at the fact the Govt wants to “reform” security legislation so it can spy on your net and phone use even better than it already can now.
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Home ITIt’s official: Microsoft has KILLED its Metro nomenclature for Windows 8, but obviously, the company has not killed off the Metro interface.
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: MobilityA fight over rectangles, the look and feel, patents and various jurisdictions where products are allowed in one place but not the other is tangling both Apple and Samsung in a legal angry-bird eagle web of judicial intrigue, enriching the lawyers and bringing judges more firmly into the 21st century than they likely ever initially imagined.
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Home ITIt turns out that if you block p2p file-sharing site “The Pirate Bay”, you’ll achieve a short-term block but will soon see the volume of files sent soaring back to normal, negating the positive effect of boneheaded blocking.
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Home ITIt was a dark and stormy cloud; the downloads came by torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of MD5 hash checks which swept up the malware (for it is in the cloud that our scene lies), rattling along the desktops, and fiercely agitating the scanty lame of the Mac anti-malware that struggled against the
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Home ITA news report suggests that Microsoft’s Australian resurfacing of the tablet landscape is set to start happening at Aussie retail icons, JB HiFi and Harvey Norman.