Some people seem capable of organizing everything in their head: the day's tasks, a running to-do list and even when and where all their meetings for the next month will be. For the rest of us, though, we need a bit of help. And your computer or smartphone can help here, by doing all the hard work for you.
Mozilla has released the first publicly available beta of Firefox 5, which acts as a halfway house between the final stable, final release of Firefox and the developmental version, Firefox Aurora.
Lawmakers in the U.S. asked Japanese firm Sony Corp. for additional information about an attack that exposed more than 100 million customer accounts to hackers, an event its chief executive officer described as a 'hiccup.'
More than 13 million hours of video were uploaded in YouTube, during 2010 and 35 hours were uploaded every minute. However, YouTube, the video sharing Web site that used to be the world's largest source of Internet traffic, is losing its marketshare in the Internet populace.
An online advisory has been released by Microsoft Australia that advises internet users to upgrade their Internet Explorer to the latest version. Microsoft has compared Internet Explorer 6 to a nine-year-old milk that no one would drink.
Borders Australia proclaims to launch online bookstores power-driven by the Kobo e-books download service and sell its own devices of e-book reader.
According to InformationWeek, the iDefense division of Verisign told The New York Times that cybercriminals are selling huge lots of stolen and fake Facebook accounts enticed by the openness and amount of user information in their accounts.
Apple brags of selling more than one million iPads in approximately 28 days since being introduced on the 3rd of April. Contrasting to that, iPhone took almost three months to hit the one million sales markets after being launched.
Opera Software, a Norwegian company, has purchased the Melbourne-based email provider FastMail.fm for an unrevealed sum. According to ARN Net, Opera said in a statement that the asset expands its current messaging product collection and deliver cross-platform messaging to a broad range of devices, which includes mobile phones, computers, gaming consoles, and televisions.
Groggle.com.au is a soon-to-be-launched Australian liquor price comparison website. Google had presented the website owners a desist letter demanding them to stop using the brand earlier this month.
A website that lists 1.5 million compromised Facebook accounts for sale has been discovered by iDefense Labs of Verisign. Each 1,000 accounts with not more than 10 friends are for sale for $25 and $45 for 1,000 accounts for those with more than 10 friends.
As National Broadband Networks (NBN) tries to deliver a broadband speed of 100Mbps over a planned $43 billion dollar fibre network with great effort and tussle, Alcatel-Lucent announced that Bell Labs, Alcatel's research arm, successfully demonstrated downstream VDSL2 speed of up to 300Mbps covering distances up to 400 meters using DSL Phantom Mode technology instead of a copper wire network comparable to what Telstra has connected to most businesses and homes in Australia.
The released copyright treaty may change the way internet providers of Australia deal with pirates.
