The arrival of push notification in Apple’s 3.0 iPhone software whipped up excitement, though its real-world application still left users wanting more. On Monday, Tiverias Apps released GPush (iTunes link), a small (0.3MB), 99-cent application that fills in a gap with push notification for your Gmail account. GPush alerts you to incoming Gmail messages with [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Texas Memory unveils SSD array with 60GB/sec throughput
Texas Memory Systems today unveiled its fastest and highest capacity solid state disk (SSD) system, the RamSan 6200, which offers as much as 100 terabytes of capacity in a single 40U rack configuration. The system also can sustain 5 million input/outputs per second (IOPS) with 60GB/sec. throughput while using slightly more than 6 kilowatts of [...]
Hitachi announces first 2TB, 7,200 RPM hard drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. announced today that it is shipping what it said is the world’s first 2TB, 7200 RPM hard disk drive, the Deskstar 7K2000. The 3.5-inch, 2TB Deskstar is a fourth-generation device that uses Hitachi’s five-platter design using perpendicular magnetic recording technology, which stands bits upright on the platter in order to [...]
Internode brings naked ADSL to the Tassie masses
Internode has launched its ‘NakedExtreme’ naked ADSL service in Tasmania, following its mainland launch in August last year. The new service is expected to fill in metropolitan broadband blackspots that currently affect the island. Internode’s Extreme broadband services are delivered to customers from telephone exchanges equipped with the ISP’s own DSLAM equipment. The NakedExtreme service [...]
Report: Your Palm Pre may be spying on you
Is your Palm Pre spying on you and sending your GPS coordinates and more back to the Palm mothership on a daily basis? According to mobile application developer Joey Hess that’s exactly what is happening. He asserts on his personal blog that data on the location and app used on the Palm’s Pre smartphone is [...]
Voting machine hack costs less than $US100,000
Why spend millions of dollars campaigning when you can hack an election for less than 100 grand? That’s a question raised by university researchers who recently bought a Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine and then used a new hacking technique to circumvent its security. Although they’ve been hacked before, Sequoia’s AVC machines are considered a [...]
Australia the pricey country for mobile broadband: OECD
Mobile broadband users in Australia pay more than in any other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country according to a new report released by the organisation. The report measured mobile broadband usage in three brackets: high use, medium use and low use. A high-use mobile broadband service offering 6-20GB per month costs Australians [...]
61% of young U.K adults illegally download music
Nearly two thirds of 14 to 24 year olds illegally download music over peer-to-peer (p2p) networks, says UK Music. According to research, which was carried out by the University of Hertfordshire on behalf of the music body, 75 percent of teens also admitted to sending digital music files by email, Bluetooth, Skype or MSN to [...]
eBay requires developers to change their account passwords
Members of the eBay Developers Program must change their account passwords because the e-commerce company recently discovered a way in which account information could be accessed by malicious hackers. This requirement comes “out of an abundance of caution” on the part of eBay, which hasn’t detected any suspicious activity in developer accounts, the company said [...]