News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Worldwide sales of phones reached nearly 305 million in the second quarter, 11.8 percent over the same period last year, according to research released by Gartner. While that reflects that there are some bright spots, growth was tempered by economic slowdowns in some regions. In mature markets like Europe and the US, buyers are favouring mid-tier phones over high-end devices, the researchers found. Also, fewer people are choosing to replace their phones as high fuel and food costs compete for dollars.
Nancy Gohring | Aug 29, 2008
The wait is over for users of the Australian iTunes Store who've been looking longingly at the movie content available from the American counterpart of the Store. As of this morning, movies from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate are available for sale and rental.
Matthew JC. Powell | Aug 14, 2008
At the moment, Research In Motion's BlackBerry is very much the dominant player in the corporate smartphone market -- a position it has held for some time and in which it is well and truly entrenched. It's the game to beat if Apple wants to boast about enterprise adoption of the iPhone, and so far it's got little more than a few careful sniffs. One of those sniffers, however, happens to be one of the biggest companies on the planet.
Matthew JC. Powell | Aug 14, 2008
Sydney's second Apple Store, its first in a suburban shopping centre, opened this morning to subdued scenes compared to the opening of the George Street Store in June. Subdued, at least, in terms of the media frenzy. The Apple faithful queued up outside seemed no less enthusiastic as 9am approached. And the staff, as always, were buoyant. As with the George Street opening, the entire staff of the Store ran out to greet the queue just before opening, high-fiving and cheering enthusiastically. Then they formed an honour guard, with more clapping and cheering as customers entered, runnimng the gauntlet to collect one of 1000 free t-shirts available for the occasion.
Matthew JC. Powell | Aug 9, 2008
There were 6am calls from Finnish certificate authorities and also some pretty harsh words from his peers in the security community, even an accidentally leaked Black Hat presentation, but after managing the response to one of the most highly publicised internet flaws in recent memory, Dan Kaminsky said Wednesday that he’d do it all over again.
Robert McMillan | Aug 7, 2008
Sun Microsystems has begun offering a downloadable beta version of StarOffice 9, its office software suite. The beta release is free; the release version of the application is currently priced at $US69.95. StarOffice is based on the same underpinnings as the open source office suite OpenOffice.org. It provides an alternative to Microsoft Office using applications that support the XML file format. Individual components of StarOffice include a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, drawing tool, database tool and formula generator.
Peter Cohen | Aug 5, 2008
Apple has announced that its second NSW store will open on Saturday 9 August in Chatswood on Sydney's North Shore. The Store, in the Chatswood Chase shopping centre at 345 Victoria Avenue, promises to be somewhat smaller than the large George Street store in Sydney's CBD but will also offer the same One to One training, Genius Bar and other services as the flagship store. Apple has so far indicated that it will also be opening a shopfront location in the Chadstone shopping centre near Melbourne, but has not yet disclosed any CBD location in that city.
Matthew JC. Powell | Aug 4, 2008
Apple on Thursday released Security Update 2008-005, patching a critical DNS (Domain Name Server) flaw that other companies began fixing on July 8. The DNS fix is among 13 items updated in the security release. First reported by Dan Kaminsky of IOActive, the DNS flaw would allow an attacker to introduce forged DNS information into the cache of a caching nameserver. The end result of the attack, known as cache poisoning, is that a visitor to a Web site is redirected to wherever the attacker choses to send them.
Jim Dalrymple | Aug 1, 2008
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.
