By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsI spent Thursday through Sunday (July 22-25) covering one of the best geek events anywhere -- best because the appeal is so broad. At Comic-Con, everyone is a geek, or someone else if they cosplay (costume play). The event has changed as big Hollywood media exercises greater i...
By Ed Oswald, BetanewsCitigroup customers using its iPhone app for mobile banking are being urged to apply an update after the company found a security flaw. The program was storing personal data in a file that could have potentially opened the user up to identity theft.The issue was discovered duri...
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsFollowing news over the weekend that it had missed the deadline to provide the city government of Los Angeles with its own email and collaboration infrastructure, Google today announced "Google Apps for Government".Google Apps for Government provides more secure versions of...
An economic analyst has suggested the hyped debate over Australia’s sustainable population has overshadowed the country’s problem on housing shortage.
Oracle, the business software and hardware company, distances itself from comments made by Charles Phillips, its co-president.
By Ed Oswald, BetanewsInternet leak clearinghouse Wikileaks made the news over the weekend, being the source of the release of 92,000 secret government documents detailing US activity in Afghanistan from January 2004 to December 2009. The full suite of documents was proved to three news organization...
Optus, the telecommunications company, confirms that it plans to hold midnight launches across the country for the iPhone 4 on Thursday. The announcement comes after Apple itself publicized plans to open stores on Friday morning.
Telstra, the telecommunications and media company, confirms that it will be cutting the cost of its BigPond Elite products.
A Coalition decision to shelve national broadband network project will ''take Australia back to 2004'' and lengthen Telstra’s hold on the market, Telstra’s rivals say.
The Directors of data and transaction services company Connxion Ventures Limited (ASX: CXN) today announced that based on June billings and unaudited financial accounts, full-year revenue for 2010 are now expected to be $12.6 million, a 14.5 percent increase on the previously announced forecast of $11 million.
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsIndividuals can now legally bypass DVD encryption, mobile phone carrier locks, and more according to a revision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced today.Every three years, the Library of Congress must determine if th...
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsMethods for bypassing DVD encryption, unlocking mobile phone carrier locks, and other content protection could be argued as fair use under a revision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced today.Every three years, the Li...
Microsoft, the technology company, says that it will not give out rewards to security researchers for reporting bugs.
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsLast May, AT&T launched a project called "Hotzones" in New York City's Times Square aimed at fixing traffic problems by blanketing the area in Wi-Fi signals. Today, the carrier announced the project is coming to more cities, including Charlotte, North Carolina today and Chi...
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsAndroid's share of the UK mobile market grew by more than 10 percent in a single quarter, International market research firm GfK's Retail and Technology division announced today. The mobile operating system appears to be experiencing the same explosive growth the U.S. showe...
Australia's biggest insurer by market value QBE Insurance Group Ltd. recorded the biggest drop in Sydney trading in five months as it reported first half profits were off target.
LG Display, the world's second-largest liquid crystal display maker, says that it is unable to supply the orders for flat panels from Apple.
A survey into the online habits of Australians reveals that a fifth of the country's inhabitants would choose to go without heating, food or television before losing their internet connection.
The Gold Coast’s Oracle development will house prime luxury in two high-rise towers when the hotel opens some time before the year ends.
AT&T, the mobile provider, beat analyst expectations to post better-than-expected profit figures due to cost reductions in its landline business.
Australian mining firm Anglo American Plc has resumed operations in its Drayton coal mines after an accident this morning that affected five workers, hospitalizing four.
Australian mining firm Anglo American Plc has resumed operations in its Drayton coal mines after an accident this morning that affected five workers, hospitalizing four.
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, will be in a season 22 episode of animated series The Simpsons.
AGL Energy has announced that it has successfully diverted some of its debts to the American market as a part of its scheme to make the firm’s debt maturity longer and to diversify its sources of financing.
Premier Mike Rann of South Australia says the federal government’s scheme to integrate more green energy into Australia’s power grid is very good news for their state.
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsIn the quest to deliver a high-tech learning device that anyone can afford, India's Human Resource Development Minister, Kapil Sibal unveiled a prototype for a $35 tablet computer Thursday. Sibal said it is an answer to the "hundred dollar laptop" from MIT, which later laun...
Eset, a security vendor, says that virus writers are capitalizing on a Windows vulnerability exposed by a recently discovered worm.
By Ed Oswald, BetanewsMaking good on a promise delivered in last week's press conference, Apple on Friday rolled out its free case program for iPhone 4 customers. A web page detailing the program has been set up, and a special app has been created and is now available from the App Store.Those who or...
CNN, the news network, launches a free international news app for the iPhone in a sign that media companies are in search of effective business models to profit from content.
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsMicrosoft has signed a new licensing agreement for the ARM architecture, extending the two companies' relationship that has already spanned 13 years. ARM's major intellectual property is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture that is commonly used in ...
