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Election fever: 6 mobile apps that can keep you informed
The big game is on -- and by that, we don't mean football, basketball, baseball or Angry Birds. We're talking about the biggest pastime in the U.S.: Watching (and taking part in) the current Republican primaries and the upcoming presidential elections.
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Japan's largest carrier to launch test service to combat Android fragmentation
Japan's largest mobile operator is prepping an elaborate testing center, with hundreds of handsets monitored by streaming web cameras, to help software developers debug their apps on the growing morass of Android devices and software versions.
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David Jones taps IBM for multi-channel platform
David Jones Limited (ASX:DJS) has contracted IBM to provide a new multi-channel retail sales platform.
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3D mapping revives underwater city
A marine robotics team from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies at the University of Sydney has received top honours in Canon Australia’s Extreme Imaging competition for their 3D mapping and digital reconstruction of an ancient underwater city in Greece.
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Eolas loses in Web patents claim against Google and others
A jury in Texas gave the verdict that two patents of Eolas Technologies that enable Internet browsers to host embedded interactive applications were invalid, in a protracted legal battle which involved top Internet companies like Google and Amazon.com.
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Power profiles to help electronics go Green
The energy usage of electronic devices could be reduced simply by changing and improving the way it is measured, a study from the Australian National University (ANU) has found.
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NeuroSky MindWave: Fun with Brainwaves
In <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/toolshed/smart-hat-monitors-brain-waves-watch-fatigue-levels">last week's Gearhead</a> I discussed, in part, the science of electroencephalography or EEG … the detection and measurement of the neurological activity of the brain via electrodes attached to a subject's scalp.
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Start-up spotlight: Smart Sparrow targets next-generation learning
Dr Dror Ben-Naim -- the founder of Australian e-learning company, Smart Sparrow -- grew up knowing that one day he’d start his own company.
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Oracle extends SAP rivalry with Taleo buy
Oracle is escalating its rivalry with German business-software maker SAP and plans to pay $US1.9 billion ($A1.77 billion) for Taleo Corp, a company that helps businesses hire and manage their employees.
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Dinky Kong to map Aust-NZ digital heritage
A spin-off of the cult game Donkey Kong, "Dinky Kong", will take its rightful place alongside new computer software programs in a collection of trans-Tasman digital heritage.
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Review: Peppermint Ice Linux
These days, if a desktop-focussed Linux distribution wants to stand out from the pack of Ubuntu-wannabes it either needs to be especially slick or offer something a little bit different to the norm. Peppermint Ice falls into the latter category: It's a Debian-derived (via Ubuntu), lightweight Linux distro that's designed for netbooks and has a strong focus on Web applications.
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Product Review: Micosoft System Center 2010
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Google's Chrome OS is a work in progress
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Palm Mojo SDK 1.1
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Initial thoughts on PayPal's new developer platform
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Review: Firefox 3.5 makes browsing faster, easier and more fun
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
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Adobe AIR soars to loftier heights
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New Day dawns for Web CMS
- 19/11
Silverlight, for real this time
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Guide: The new rules for enterprise apps
An insurance company decided to roll out an application for its sales reps. The new app would give them a wider selection of products to offer customers when out in the field. Information on those products was stored in a legacy mainframe system, so the company created a Web interface that let reps query the database to get details on offerings.
Technology argument 5: iPad vs. everything else
Windows XP: Pros and cons of not upgrading
Patent madness! A timeline of the Android patent wars
Chinese developers take a bite of the Apple
Why IT won't like Mac OS X Lion Server
PostgreSQL devs lift open source database to enterprise heights
5 features iOS needs, in order to sway me from Android
Android Honeycomb: Powerful, but not perfect
Six things I love about Google's Android 3.0
Pay-As-You-Grow: Investment Protection and Elasticity for your Network
Enterprise IT teams are being challenged to increase overall IT flexibility and business agility by incorporating emerging cloud technologies into their next generation datacentre architectures. Top of mind is how to embed a high degree of elasticity to properly handle increasingly unpredictable application traffic loads, while still meeting strict performance service level agreements (SLAs). Satisfying these often opposing goals requires that individual elements within the larger datacentre infrastructure provide a native capability to increase capacity and performance as conditions dictate. Read on.
Angry IP Scanner
Angry IP Scanner (or simply ipscan) is an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It scans IP addresses ...
Three simple steps to better patch security
It’s estimated that 90% of successful attacks against software vulnerabilities could be prevented with an existing patch or configuration setting. Yet patching is a persistent challenge for IT managers. With the glut of patches released each year, how do you know which ones are truly critical security patches and which ones aren’t? And how can you identify which computers are actually missing the patches they need? This paper details a simple approach to patching that gives you better visibility into and control over patch assessment and compliance.
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