By Ed Oswald, BetanewsThe App Store may have an increasing scam problem thanks to shady developers, but so far Apple has yet to provide any official response on the issue. First reported on by The Next Web Sunday, several developers appear to be using methods to hack into user accounts and make more...
By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsFriday's apocalyptic post "Windows Phone 7 is doomed" generated among comments assertions that I'm an idiot and demands that I be fired (Sorry, I'm a lowly freelancer). Nevertheless, I do read comments and seriously regard the ones written to extend the discussion (rather than...
Facebook, the popular social networking Web site, is threatening action against a Sydney jeweler for uploading pictures of nude porcelain dolls posing.
YouTube, the popular video sharing Web site, was targeted by malicious hackers. The attack, which exploited a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, affected sections in the Web site where users post comments.
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsIn November 2009,Google acquired IP telephony software company Gizmo5 and all of its engineers and products. The company's robust desktop Voice over IP client for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux seemed like an excellent extension of the Google Voice platform, which at the time w...
By Ed Oswald, BetanewsWhile e-book reader manufacturers have done everything they can to mimic the experience of paper and ink, a study says it will take the reader longer to finish an e-book than its print counterpart.Jacob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group tested three different e-book methods -...
Macquarie Telecom Group claims its preliminary full year results have come in above guidance.
Vividwireless, the Perth-based mobile WiMAX network operator, has changed its pricing plan and will now offer "truly unlimited" downloads for $75 per month.
Apple releases an open letter to address the iPhone 4's signal issues. However, the company insists that the problems are not due to antenna design.
Pixel Qi's power-saving 3Qi laptop displays were sold out just a day after it was announced and put on the market.
Motorola Inc. has announced it would break up into two distinct units with one making networks and telecommunications equipment and the other making handsets and home entertainment products.
Yesterday, Representative William Delahunt (D-MA) introduced the "Main Street Fairness Act" in Congress that would allow states to collect sales tax for online purchases. The bill, H.R 5660 is described as an attempt to "promote simplification and fairness in the administra...
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsBack in March, YouTube gave users the ability to run an automated closed captioning feature which uses speech-to-text technology to convert a video's audio track into live subtitles. This feature was in development for more than two years, and was in private beta testing si...
By Jacqueline Emigh, BetanewsWith hordes of folks flocking to movie theaters for Toy Story 3 and other 3D films, DirecTV and its content partner Panasonic have decided that the time is right to bring the TV industry's first suite of dedicated 3D TV channels into living rooms, for home viewing on 3D-...
HP announces that it has completed a $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, the smartphone maker.
In February, I asserted that Windows Phone 7 "is a lost cause." Matters are worse following this week's KIN killing and late May's Entertainment and Devices division reorganization. Microsoft mobile development has run aground, and at the wrong time. The company is poised to m...
By Ed Oswald, BetanewsDell on Thursday attempted to minimize the damage done by the release of documents related to a 2007 court case involving faulty PCs, saying it did not knowingly ship faulty motherboards to its customers.The continuing fallout may be enough to force CEO Michael Dell to go publi...
By Ed Oswald, BetanewsFacebook realizes that its photo application is sometimes cumbersome to use, and promised late Thursday that it is working to make things better.The impetus behind making one of the most commonly-used features of Facebook better seems to be Facebook's acquisition of photo shari...
Sony has started providing free software updates to more than half a million users around the world. The updates are meant to fix a problem that could cause Vaio laptops to overheat.
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsApple has been in the habit of issuing very short press releases that simply and clearly address concerns of the public without much in the way of formalities. Today, in an unusually long and formal message, Apple says it has found the cause of the iPhone 4's poor reception...
International passenger traffic on Australia’s airports saw a sluggish growth in April as fresh government figures showed that a total of 2.059 travellers passed through in and out of the country in the month, which is a 4.2 percent improvement from the 1.976 million posted on the same corresponding month last year.
By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsThe last 24 hours has brought remarkable upset to the mobile marketplace, just one week after Apple and its partners started selling iPhone 4. Will this tsunami never end?Late yesterday, the blogosphere, twittersphere and news media cosmos burst with reports that Microsoft had...
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsThough Hollywood studios and consumer electronics manufacturers are pushing 3D home entertainment as the next big thing, opportunities to catch live events on 3D TVs are still very rare for people who haven't already taken the plunge and bought a new 3D-capable TV. And even...
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsWhen a new piece of software is released, companies frequently include a video of someone walking through the features of the software, explaining how it works. Unfortunately, videos like this lack the basic interaction of a step-by-step tutorial.Now, a Web app called Iorad...
By Ed Oswald, BetanewsThe age old problem of putting batteries into electronics the wrong way is about to end if Microsoft has its way. The Redmond company on Thursday introduced InstaLoad, a technology aimed at making electronics work whichever way the battery is inserted.Battery-maker Duracell has...
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsTechCrunch is reporting this afternoon that iPhone OS game developer Tapulous has been acquired by Disney, and the team of developers and executives at the startup will join the staff at Disney Interactive Studios.Tapulous has released a slew of rhythm games in the vein of ...
After previous denying, Commerce Minister Paul Lynch today confirmed reports that five participants had made it to the shortlist of potential suppliers for the data centre consolidation initiative of the NSW government. These are Global Switch, Macquarie Capital, Gresham, Leighton Contractors and the Plenary Group Unit Trust.
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsHooking up Android's email client to a Yahoo! account was not typically a simple affair. With Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail, you could just type in your email address and password, and the Android client would set it up for you. Yahoo mailboxes could be hooked up, but only...
By Tim Conneally, BetanewsKeeping the Kindle momentum high, Amazon has announced the next generation of Kindle DX is available for pre-order today, and will be shipping on July 7th.The new Kindle DX has the same 9.7" screen size, and the same free 3G wireless, but features a new graphite chassis and...
By Ed Oswald, BetanewsFirefox may be coming to your iPhone soon, however not in the form you might expect. Mozilla on Wednesday said that it submitted an app called "Firefox Home" to Apple for iTunes App Store approval, an application which would sync browser activity between the user's iPhone and d...
