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The glaring problem with gadgets
NEW YORK - Twinkle, twinkle, little internet router. And cell phone. And digital video recorder. And cable modem. And game console. And power strip. And TV - even though it's turned off.
Turn off the lamps in a living room or bedroom today, and chances are good the room will still be aglow with the tiny diode lights of a half-dozen gadgets.
July 30, 2008
Fighting off the great spam attack
The internet is under attack like never before, with spam accounting for 80 per cent of all emails sent worldwide, many of them money-making scams run by criminal gangs.
More than 90 per cent of small to medium-sized businesses in New Zealand are using filters to protect themselves, but Steve Martin, from information protection company Symantec, said nearly a third of what was still getting through was spam.
July 29, 2008
TelstraClear ups ante with new service for SMEs
ConnectFacebook fends off attack of the clonesKiwis top of international survey for bloggingThe battle for market share among the country's telcos looks set to reach another level as TelstraClear today launches its IP-based telephony system aimed at small-to-medium businesses.
July 29, 2008
Motorola restructures as it continues downward spiral
NEW YORK - Motorola will restructure its home and networks mobility unit into three separate businesses, which could ease the way for their potential sale, according to media reports.
Motorola said in March that it plans to separate the handset business, which has been hurt by a two-year-long decline in cell phone sales, from the home and networks business. Now, the world's third-largest cell phone maker told employees in a memo last week it will split its second-largest division into three segments, according to a story published on the Wall Street Journal's website.
July 29, 2008
China claims more web users than US
BEIJING - China's booming internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on web use, according to government data.
The latest figure on web use at the end of June is a 56 per cent increase from a year ago, the China internet Network Information Centre said. It said the share of the Chinese public using the internet is still just 19.1 per cent, leaving more room for rapid growth.
July 29, 2008
Anthony Doesburg: Elegant gadget's lure just too hard to resist
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" phrase, used to describe the 1990s US sharemarket, would have done nicely a fortnight ago to explain the lengths people went to to lay their hands on Apple's iPhone.
There was the one who camped outside Vodafone's Queen St store for 55 hours, determined to be first in line when the phone went on sale at 12.01am on July 11. It turned out he was put up to it by a PR company.
July 29, 2008
UFO-chasing hacker may be locked up for life
LONDON - British man Gary McKinnon is just days from learning whether he is on the fast track to a 60-year prison sentence, thanks to his obsession with aliens.
McKinnon, 42, from Enfield in north London, is accused by American prosecutors of illegally accessing top-secret computer systems in what they claimed in one legal document was "the biggest military computer hack of all time".
July 29, 2008
New search engine claims three times the grunt of Google
SAN FRANCISCO - Anna Patterson's last internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.
July 29, 2008
New Zealand's internet future and how to fix it
A group of experts has descended on Queenstown for a three-day Netsafe conference that aims to unlock the mysteries of our internet future.
Cybercitizens: Risks, Rights and Responsibilities of Participation in the Information Age covers internet safety and law and plays host a range of experts on aspects of web life.
July 29, 2008
The Google Killer is here..it's gone..it's back again
Much of the buzz around the online space in the last 24 hours has been around the launch of what has been touted as the Google Killer, new search engine Cuil, (pronounced cool).
Cuil was founded by highly respected search experts, husband and wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson who were then joined by Russell Power. Patterson and Power are ex-Google search experts, and Google must be fuming that their inventions were not added to Google's intellectual property library and may now be used against them.
July 29, 2008
Oracle accuses SAP of product theft
SAN FRANCISCO - Business software maker Oracle is escalating its allegations of corporate theft against rival SAP.
Oracle has sued German software maker SAP AG, accusing its top executives of allowing a software maintenance subsidiary called TomorrowNow to steal copies of Oracle's products. Oracle says it was part of an effort to sabotage its 2005 acquisition of PeopleSoft.
July 29, 2008
Tech-savvy teens take it to world stage
A group of tech-savvy Otara youngsters have earned themselves a trip to an international technology summit in the United States.
Fourteen-year-olds Ofoi Taumoelau, Kataraina Lio and Lars Malungahu will join up to 300 young people from around the world at the biennial Teen Summit in Boston, Massachusetts, where they will design technological projects addressing community issues.
July 29, 2008
Red Shed returns to e-tailing in bid for share of online cash
The Warehouse is re-entering the online market as it seeks to carve itself a slice of growing internet shopping spending.
The first phase of the company's plan to become a multi-channel retailer starts on August 6 with a redesigned website featuring product information on 7000 items, and additional features such as birthday alerts and a gift-finder service.
July 29, 2008
Kiwis top of international survey for blogging
A new study has revealed one in 13 New Zealanders has a weblog, making us the keenest bloggers out of 15 countries surveyed for a world research project.
Researchers at AUT University asked 1430 people about their internet use as part of the World internet Project, a California-run initiative that tracks how people around the world use the internet.
July 29, 2008
Facebook fends off attack of the clones
MOSCOW - In its bid to go global, Facebook is facing off against itself. Clones of the wunderkind social-networking website - some of which resemble Facebook right down to colour, font and layout - have popped up in local languages around the world. These competitor sites offer identical core services, letting users post pictures, make groups and choose their friends.
All are complicating Facebook's global campaign, which began in February and has since rolled out 18 foreign-language editions, including Norwegian and Czech, with plans for 54 more.
July 29, 2008
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