Mobility & Wireless
Product review: Netbooks for business
Author: Neil McAllister
The original Asus Eee PC took the hardware world by storm. Small, lightweight, inexpensive, yet running a full-fledged OS, this tiny device offered laptop capabilities at near-PDA pricing. Asus has since expanded its Eee PC line with models of varying capabilities, and competing devices are now arriving from other manufacturers, including Acer, Dell, HP, and MSI, among others. Collectively, these devices have come to be called "netbooks."
Nokia, RIM, say iPhone's growing the smartphone market
Author: Howard Dahdah
Competitors to Apple in the smartphone market claim the iPhone is lifting sales of their products rather than eating up their market share.
Cirrus acquires another rival ISP
Author: Dylan Bushell-Embling
Regional ISP Cirrus Communications has acquired another competitor, the wireless provider Unisky.
iPhone App sales reach US$1 million per day
Author: Dylan Bushell-Embling
Sales at Apple's iPhone App store have reached US$1 million (AUD$1.13 million) a day after just over a month of operation.
Five great Wi-Fi Internet Radios
Author: Joel Snyder
While Web-based music offerings from Apple (iTunes) and others have made it easy to turn a laptop or desktop into a music player, what if you want to listen without dragging around your PC? Enter the stand-alone Internet radio, which looks like a radio and has an antenna, but connects via Wi-Fi to the Internet and streams audio to speakers. We recently tried out five such devices. Check the slides to see what we thought.
Lotus iNotes coming to the iPhone 3G
Author: Andrew Hendry
IBM's Lotus Domino Web Access software, also known as IBM Lotus iNotes, will bring your Lotus e-mail, calendar and contact details to the |Apple iPhone 3G.
Internode CEO takes out top gong at Comms Alliance awards
Author: Andrew Hendry
The winners of the 2008 ACOMM Awards were announced last night at the Communications Alliance Annual Dinner, where CEO and founder of Internode, Simon Hackett, was awarded the top honour for individual achievement - the 2008 Telecommunications Ambassador award.
Bad luck comes in threes for Optus' QLD network
Author: Darren Pauli
Optus has apologized for yesterday's network blackout, the third in as many weeks, which silenced the carrier's voice services across Brisbane.
MGM presents software review to SA Government
Author: Dylan Bushell-Embling
MGM Wireless Limited (ASX:MWR) recently presented the results of a review of the company's messageyou Schools product to the South Australian Government.
In-car GPS makes you more likely to drive poorly
Author: Carl Jongsma
Satellite navigation devices, the ubiquitous GPS interfaces that many have in their cars, are, it seems, the cause for more than their fair share of accidents and risky driving practices in the UK.
