Redmond has introduced the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 Some see the touch interface as the next big thing in personal computing, while others view it as a gimmick that won’t replace traditional input devices anytime soon. I’m split on the issue. The success of Apple’s iPhone proves that touch, if done correctly, is [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Cisco’s huge router reaches five-year milestone
The CRS-1 debuted in 2004 and has proved it’s needed even as competition gains on Cisco Five years ago when Cisco Systems introduced its CRS-1 core router platform some criticized it as overkill, but it has enabled a growth in network traffic that in turn has fueled demand for thousands of the devices. Cisco introduced [...]
Latest Kaspersky mobile software wipes data via SMS
Even if a thief swaps out the SIM card, Mobile Security 8.0 will also send a message with the new number to the phone’s owner Kaspersky Lab’s latest mobile security software due to be released next week can wipe data with a text message command even if a thief has swapped out the phone’s SIM [...]
Bing! MS to relaunch Aussie search
in brief Speculation that Microsoft is planning to shortly relaunch its search engine in Australia under the “Bing” name has intensified after the software giant registered the bing.com.au domain name. As first reported by APC and verified by searches of the WHOIS database, the company has also registered other similar domain names in other countries [...]
Hacker reverse-engineered ACMA blacklist
This story initially reported that filters used by Family Friendly ISPs had been reverse engineered. Ms O’Loughlin was actually referring to Family Friendly filter vendors. update An Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) executive has told a Senate Estimates hearing that the alleged leak of its blacklist in March was the result of a hacker [...]
Netspace Tasmania ADSL2+ aims to loosen Telstra stranglehold
Internet service provider (ISP), Netspace, has initiated its ADSL2+ service in Tasmania to loosen Telstra’s iron grip on the state’s broadband market. With more than 400 ADSL2+ national exchanges already in place, Netspace’s Tasmanian coverage is now available in Hobart and Launceston. There are also plans to broaden the network in the coming months. Prices [...]
Borland Introduces Software ‘Simulator’
Borland Software, which earlier this month announced it was being acquiredby Micro Focus, announced today the release of Borland TeamDefine, a simulation tool for business analysts to create working models of basic software designs. The problem for many development projects, as David Wilby, senior vice president of products noted, is that many projects start without [...]
Wolfram Alpha Opens API, More Features on the Way
As far as web search tools go, few have generated as much hype as Wolfram Alpha. The service, which bills itself as a “computational knowledge engine,” differs from search engines such as Google, in that it does not return lists of web pages. Rather, Wolfram Alpha attempts to calculate answers to user queries. For example, [...]
Brazilian RC helicopter cellphone delivery service busted
What do you do when your cellphone-smuggling carrier pigeons get caught on their way to the big house? Why, you go higher tech, of course. Those texting-crazed Brazlian ultra-max prisoners hatched a new plot to fly a radio controlled helicopter up over the wall of a prison, dropping diaper-swaddled handsets into the awaiting hands of [...]
Defense Department developing portable hacking device for soldiers
It’s not exactly news that the Department of Defense is looking at ways to make hacking a more practical weapon, but it looks to really be stepping up its game with its latest project, which promises to make complicated attacks as simple as a few button presses. That would apparently be possible thanks to a [...]