TECHNOLOGY

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsTwitter on Wednesday announced that it is relocating its technical operations infrastructure to a custom-built data center in the vicinity of Salt Lake City, Utah later this year. The move is expected to help the site's reliability and availability.Popular microblogging sit...

By Ed Oswald, BetanewsThe Internet is about to face one of its most serious issues in its history: experts have warned that the Internet is running out of addresses, and may run out by 2011. At issue is slow adoption of a new system intended to vastly increase the available pool, further complicatin...

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsSamsung's custom Android user interface is the first thing we see on Galaxy S family of phones, but seems to be the last thing anyone is talking about.Walt Mossberg from The Wall Street Journal recently reviewed the two available Galaxy S devices and seemed hung up on compa...

The animosity between Apple and rival smartphone makers keeps escalating over the iPhone 4 "antennagate" conference.

Workers for Australian telecommunications and media company Telstra (ASX:TLS, NZX:TLS) will have little sympathy for their discharged colleagues, says the union representing many of the telco's employees.

Facebook announced on its official blog that the number of people using the social-networking site had reached 500 million. The figures mean one in every 14 people on the planet has now signed up to the online community.

As it opens an investigation into how the telecommunication industry handles complaints and provides customer service, The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) urges the public to list their complaints about service providers.

Kogan Technologies, the Australian manufacturer and e-tailer, releases an open-market eBook Reader for $189.

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will be releasing AUSkey authentication software Linux ports that use Ubuntu as its reference distribution for testing and development.

By Ed Oswald, BetanewsPalo Alto, Calif. based Flipboard launched what it called the "first social magazine" for the iPad Wednesday, however it quickly found out that a much-hyped launch can lead to trouble in keeping the service online for its users.Tech luminary Richard Scoble twittered incessantly...

By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsThe day following blow-out Apple earnings, my attention turns to Microsoft, which announces fiscal 2010 fourth quarter and year results tomorrow. I'm not the only person thinking about Apple, Microsoft, other tech companies and the future direction of computing.Overnight, I go...

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsToday, to celebrate the 500 million user milestone, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Facebook Stories, a new application dedicated to all the stories of people using Facebook in unique and inspirational ways.These stories are arranged either ...

Toshiba Australia says that it plans to release its "smart pads" starting October. The company says that its tablets will run on Google Android and Windows.

Apple, the electronics company, reports $15.7 billion in sales and 3.25 billion in profit during the fiscal third quarter.

Verizon, the broadband and telecommunications company, will return all unsold Kin devices to Microsoft, marking the end of the smartphone rumored to have only sold around 9,000 units.

Solid growth in the number of passengers will fuel continued expansion of Tiger Airways' Australian operations after a loss of $S600,000 ($496,941) in 2009-10, according to the airline's annual report.

By Ed Oswald, BetanewsGoogle's image search service will be getting a revamp this week, aimed at making the search function easier to use, and to provide more relevant results. The redesign is essentially the service's first major makeover since Google Images went live in 2001.At that time, only 250...

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsSweden's copyright and telecommunications reform party, officially known as the Pirate Party, has been involved with a lot of drama in the last year, mostly surrounding its involvement with The Pirate Bay torrent tracking site and its related legal fallout. Now, the Pirate ...

By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsToday, Apple set the stage for a historical competitive upset: Exceeding Microsoft revenue during the same quarter. Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple's quarterly earnings again blew past Wall Street consensus, which already were $1.55 billion to $1.75 billion higher than company g...

Exhibiting a shift in the popularity of digital reading material, Amazon, the online retailer, says that it now sells more e-books than hardcover books.

iiNet has announced the release of its bonded ADSL service offering, making it the first internet service provider in Australia to provide such optimized services. The deployment of the bonded DSL technology, which can likely double network speeds by integrating two copper wire pairs, is aimed at the SME market.

Toshiba, the electronics company, is set to release a "smart pad" which it hopes would rival the iPad.

Macquarie bank (ASX:MQG) is the chief creditor to the TPG-Carlyle consortium buying Australia's second-largest hospital owner Healthscope, with the banker having about $150 million in committed funds out of total funded facilities of $1.2 billion and another $300m in committed but undrawn funds.

Experts have identified a new piece of malware that is able to spread through USB drives due to a weakness in Windows software.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia taps Ericsson for the construction of a new multi-million dollar nationwide transmission network across the country.

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsToday, the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) announced a new consumer-facing brand for the DRM system it has been working on for more than two years: UltraViolet.DECE has more than 60 members, and includes most of the biggest names in content distribution and c...

Motorola announces that it has struck a deal worth $1.2 billion with Nokia Siemens Network for its wireless network equipment unit.

Google, the Internet company, says that its Nexus One smartphone will be discontinued in the US due to weak sales.

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsFollowing yesterday's announcement that Nokia-Siemens would be acquiring Motorola's wireless infrastructure business for $1.2 billion, Nokia Siemens turns around and announces a $7 billion agreement to deploy, install, operate and maintain the U.S.' first wholesale LTE netw...