News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
In its continuing quest to speed up the Internet, Google has decided to build what it calls “ultra high-speed” broadband networks in some parts of the U.S., the company announced Wednesday.
Juan Carlos Perez | Feb 12, 2010
In a big blow to Google’s efforts to build a massive digital-books marketplace and library, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has come out against the revised agreement to settle copyright lawsuits brought against Google by authors and publishers.
Juan Carlos Perez | Feb 8, 2010
The New York Times will start charging readers to access some of its Website’s content next year, hoping such a move will complement its online advertising revenue, it said on Wednesday.
Juan Carlos Perez | Jan 21, 2010
Facebook’s staggering usage growth continues unabated, as the company surpassed the 100 million U.S. unique visitor milestone in November, the first time the social networking site exceeds that monthly mark, according to comScore.
Juan Carlos Perez | Dec 17, 2009
In order to boost its Wave product, Google has acquired AppJet, which makes the EtherPad real-time workgroup collaboration application.
Juan Carlos Perez | Dec 7, 2009
Twitter is now allowing its externally built applications to provide geolocation features to end users, after announcing its intention to do so in August.
Juan Carlos Perez | Nov 23, 2009
Google released its Chrome operating system to the open-source community on Thursday and said it has designed the netbook OS to be faster, simpler and more secure than existing ones.
Juan Carlos Perez | Nov 20, 2009
Yahoo has enhanced its Web search engine’s news “shortcuts” by adding Twitter posts, photos and videos to them, the company announced Thursday.
Juan Carlos Perez | Nov 20, 2009
Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) need more time to revise the proposed settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuits the author and publisher organisations brought against Google over its Book Search program.
Juan Carlos Perez | Nov 10, 2009
The legal war over Skype has ended. Skype's cofounders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have agreed to transfer ownership of the remaining Skype technology that eBay didn't own, paving the way for eBay to complete its sale of a majority stake in Skype to an investor consortium.
Juan Carlos Perez | Nov 9, 2009
Microsoft has reached collaboration agreements with Twitter and Facebook to get their members’ public status updates and messages indexed and presented in useful ways on the Bing search engine.
Juan Carlos Perez | Oct 22, 2009
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
