Tech News September 30, 2012
Tim Cook: ‘So sorry for Apple’s crap maps app – try Bing or Nokia’ Or something else that isn’t Android
Apple CEO Tim Cook has, out of the blue, apologised for the crap Apple maps app in iOS 6 – and suggested punters turn to rivals Microsoft, Google and Nokia.…
Satellite broadband rollout for all in US: But Europe just doesn’t get it Why don’t Brits trust companies selling dishes?
Dish, the US satellite provider, has switched on its home domestic broadband service, but while Americans embrace satellite Europeans don’t seem interested in talking to their birds.…
Tech News September 29, 2012
US gov on track to miss its own IPv6 deadline Just 12% of Feds’ websites are ready, says tech watchdog
US government websites will miss the deadline for transition to IPv6 on a huge scale, predicts a watchdog. Only 12 per cent of federal website domains are currently compatible with new internet protocol IPv6 according to the National institute of Standards and Technology. There are just two days to go before the deadline for compliance hits on Sunday.…
Alibaba pushes on with mobile OS plans despite Android setback Taps up the Shenzhen massive for favours…
Chinese web giant Alibaba is pushing ahead with plans to get its mobile operating system Aliyun onto more handsets in the country despite a recent clash with Google which …
Tech News September 28, 2012
Fuming fanbois flood ‘flimsy iPhone 5 Wi-Fi’ forum Networking not working, claim puzzled punters
Punters on an Apple support forum claim they are struggling to use Wi-Fi networks with their iOS 6 gadgets. The trouble seems to affect new iPhone 5s as well as iPads and older iPhones updated to the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system.…
Virgin ramps 4G to a whopping 90Mbps – and switches it off Nyah nyah nyah, you can’t have this… yet
Virgin Mobile has completed its 4G trials in the UK, hitting speeds of 90Mbps both indoors and out. But don’t expect EE’s 4G monopoly to break any time soon despite the ongoing collaboration between the two companies.…
Tech News September 27, 2012
iOS 6 maps gets thumbs up … in China Partners with local player for better data
Apple’s new Maps app in iOS6 may be getting an absolute pasting in most of the world but is providing surprisingly detailed results for China, where the fruity tech know-it-all has gone with local mapping info supplier AutoNavi.…
Samsung slaps swift patch over phone-wiping Galaxy S III vuln Smartmobe owners can bonk without fear again
Samsung has whipped out a fix for an embarrassing flaw in its smartphones that allows miscreants to wipe victims’ phones with a simple web link. The South Korean electronics giant is pushing out the patch right now.…
GiffGaff: We’ve got no iPhones, but here’s how to cut down your SIM And hey, we’ll …
Tech News September 26, 2012
Google swims with the fishes StreetView adds FishView, intentionally
Perhaps inspired by the tourists who followed their Satnav and drove into the sea, Google has lugged cameras beneath the waves and added the results to the StreetView service.…
Nextgen on the block as Leighton seeks cash Metronode and Infoplex also up for sale
Some prime pieces of Australian IT&T real estate are on the block, with construction company Leighton Holdings announcing that it intends to sell network subsidiary Nextgen Networks.…
RIM seeks to woo developers with REO Speedwagon cover Shows off latest Blackberry 10 build, preps app store
Crumbling Canuck smartphone vendor RIM has taken to song in an effort to keep developers writing for the platform.…
Tech News September 25, 2012
Huawei wants to be telepresence king Dethroning Cisco and massive domestic retail rollout to chase US$100b revenue goal
Chinese telecoms and handset giant Huawei has its sights on dominating yet more markets, with plans to leapfrog Cisco to top spot in the video conferencing space in three years and to expand its retail presence in thousands of domestic bricks and mortar stores to boost handset sales.…
Myspace mutates Windows 8 with new look Video demo would do Redmond proud
Myspace* has released a video that shows off a new look that, at first glance, owes a fair bit to the design thinking behind Windows 8, with a dash of Pinterest thrown in for good measure.…
Cisco scores AUD$38m NBN win MPLS routers, switches and …
Tech News September 24, 2012
Adelaide hospital rolls out RFID tagging Wireless everywhere to track kit, people, in AUD$71M project
Visionstream will deploy a AUD$71 million ICT solution for the Royal Adelaide Hospital that is aimed to integrate government development on high end data services with actual health care provision.…
Libs launch broadband poll Tell us what you want from NBN, says Turnbull, so we can target rollout
Australia’s federal coalition has launched a “Broadband Test” that shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has told the ABC will help participants to understand the speed of the broadband service they receive.…
NTT demos petabit transmission on single fibre 5k HD videos per second
Japan’s NTT has announced an impressive speed/distance demonstration, achieving one petabit per second over a distance …
Tech News September 23, 2012
iOS 6 maps has wrong location for Apple Store Google gets location for Sydney mothership right, Bing doesn’t know it exists
Apple’s new maps app for iOS 6 can’t find one of its own stores in Sydney, Australia.…
Tech News September 22, 2012
Verizon CFO: ‘Unlimited’ data is just a word Customers might reply that so is ‘cancellation’
Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo has told analysts that “unlimited” when used to describe data is “just a word” and the idea of an open pipe is heading to extinction.…
BlackBerry network goes titsup inopportunely AGAIN You don’t want an iPhone, because >bzzert<
RIM’s BlackBerry network is down again, disconnecting users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, but that won’t come as a surprise to the socially connected.…
Microsoft drives German patent tank into Google’s front room Joins Apple panzer in smashing up House of Android
Microsoft has won a patent case against Google’s Motorola Mobililty that is really about the Android operating system.…
Tech News September 21, 2012
SingTel gets app happy with Pixable Snaps up social pic streamer for US$26.5m
The acquisitive hand of SingTel has reached out to the US to buy smartphone happy snap app Pixable for US$26.5 million.…
iPhone queue ‘superficial and pretentious’ says queuing fangirl Reg hack braves world’s first iPhone sales frenzy, films weird Apple rituals
Vid Apple Stores have started selling the iPhone 5 in Australia, the country where this kind of thing happens first thanks to accidents of geography and the location of the International Date Line.…
HTC Droids get working bonk-payment NFC setup in China Networks, iPhone 5 owners not invited to tapcash party
HTC and China Merchants Bank have launched a mobile wallet, allowing owners of HTC Android smartphones to pay for …