Posted in The Net on Sep 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Vodafone is offering its mobile customers free satellite navigation for one year as part of an industry-wide strategy to reduce reliance on phone call revenues.
The company has followed Telstra in providing GPS (global position system) services to customers who buy new handsets with in-built satellite receivers.
Both telcos only sell one handset capable of receiving the [...]
Posted in The Net on Sep 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
The New York Times is launching a blog about the television business that will be written by one of the TV industry’s most influential bloggers, highlighting the established media’s increasing reliance on less traditional ways of delivering the news.
The Times said that 22-year-old Brian Stelter is lead writer on TV Decoder, http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com, the Times’s new [...]
Posted in The Net on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, is on the verge of making its biggest push yet into mobile consumer electronics, seeking to replicate its success in mobile personal devices, as well as personal computers long before that.
In the first half of next year, Intel will deliver its Menlow platform, a collection of chips and other components [...]
Posted in Google, The Net on Sep 19th, 2007 No Comments »
A rocket carrying a next-generation Earth-imaging satellite blasted off today in California on a mission that promises to zoom in on objects as small as 45.7cm across.
The WorldView-1 satellite, built for DigitalGlobe, a privately held Colorado-based provider of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery, was lofted into space aboard a Delta 2 rocket.
The satellite separated from the [...]
Posted in The Net on Sep 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic centre of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos.
On September 15, 1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two 24 year-old Stanford University students, registered the domain name of “google.com.” The word is a [...]
Posted in The Net on Sep 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Formula One leaders McLaren have been kicked out of the 2007 constructors’ title race and fined $US100 million ($119 million) in spying controversy involving Ferrari information.
However, the governing FIA ruled that championship leader Lewis Hamilton and team mate Fernando Alonso could keep their points in the drivers’ contest.
“The WMSC (World Motor Sports Council) has stripped [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Sep 6th, 2007 No Comments »
A teenager from Victoria says that within days he will start delivering a hack that unlocks the iPhone for Australian mobile networks, using only a software application.
The 17-year-old high school student from Mildura, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he had signed up to be an Australian reseller of the iPhoneSimFree hack, developed by [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Sony plans to sell a satellite navigation accessory from February that turns its handheld PSP games console into a navigation device, the company announced at the Leipzig Games Convention on Wednesday.
The PSP equipped with the global positioning (GPS) accessory will compete with dedicated navigation devices such as those made by TomTom and Garmin.
David Reeves, head [...]
Posted in Facebook, The Net on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Nearly half of US workers are blocked from accessing the popular social networking site Facebook on their work computers, according to a study conducted by information technology security and control firm Sophos.
In a poll of 600 workers, 43 per cent said their company was blocking access to Facebook, while an additional 7 per cent reported [...]
Posted in Technology, The Net on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Viacom’s MTV Networks said on Tuesday it struck a digital music partnership with online music service RealNetworks and Verizon to compete against Apple’s iTunes.
MTV Networks will contribute cash, a five-year note for $US230 million and other assets to the joint venture, according to a RealNetworks filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
MTV will merge [...]
