Byte Into It - 16 Jul 08

Time machine needed to get iPhone? - Boing Boing
Eric Mueller took this photo of an AT&T store on lower Broadway in downtown Manhattan (near Park Place / City Hall) today. Seems the iPhone is “temporally out stock.” Perhaps it’ll be available last year.
Apple pushes 1 million iPhone 3Gs, 10 million iPhone Apps
Apple announced this morning [...]

Byte Into It - 18th Jun 08

Geek Girl Dinners Melbourne can be found on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=15128236963

OLPC Australia is located at:
http://www.olpc.org.au/
New Trojan targets business bankers - Security - iTnews Australia
Security provider RSA is reporting a new and unfamiliar Trojan attack that exploits business bank account holders’ heightened awareness of security and uses it against them.
Customers receive an email claiming to be from their [...]

Byte Into It - 11th Jun 08

Engadget WWDC coverage
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/steve-jobs-keynote-live-from-wwdc-2008/
MacTalk Australia
http://www.mactalk.com.au/
KeyNote in 60 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGY28Qbj76A
Apple Snow Leopard
http://www.apple.com/au/macosx/snowleopard/
Apple MobileMe
http://www.apple.com/au/mobileme/
Apple iPhone 3G
http://www.apple.com/au/iphone/
Optus iPhone offer
http://www.optusiphone.com.au/home.aspx
Vodafone’s as yet inactive site
http://iphone.vodafone.com.au
Alphababy (Mac):
http://alphababy.sourceforge.net/
Baby Smash (Windows):
http://www.hanselman.com/babysmash/

Byte Into It - Apr 30 08

http://www.webware.com
http://www.webware.com/8300-1_109-2-0.html?keyword=Webware+100+2008
http://www.thornsoft.com/ - makers of clipmate
BBC NEWS | Technology | Loopholes keep Windows XP alive
PC makers are finding ways to keep selling Windows XP despite Microsoft efforts to remove it from sale.
Dell, HP and Lenovo are exploiting loopholes in Microsoft’s licensing terms to extend the operating system beyond a 30 June end of life date.
XP is [...]

Byte Into It - 23 Apr 08

Keren’s Links:
http://virtualworlds2008.com/
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/
http://www.starwreck.com/
http://xmedialab.com/
http://threeminds.organic.com/
MSN Music customers lose *all* their music the next time they buy a new PC - Boing Boing
People who bought music from the MSN music store have been royally hosed by Microsoft: as of August 31, if you buy a new computer, or refresh your hard-drive or upgrade your OS, you have to kiss [...]

Byte Into It - 9 Apr 08

Seagate hard drives in some mac laptops may be prone to failure
UK drive recovery company Retrodata is warning customers of a rash of failures involving a particular Seagate drive model, a SATA unit made in China and used in Apple laptops. This specific mechanism, according to Retrodata’s intake notes, seems to be prone to [...]

Byte Into It - 12 MAr 08

Conroy confirms expert broadband panel - Telecommunications - iTnews Australia
The six industry and corporate experts making up the Panel include; John Wylie, Lazard Carnegie Wylie CEO; Tony Mitchell, Allphones Chairman; Laureate Professor Rod Tucker, University of Melbourne; Professor Emeritus of Communications Reg Coutts, University of Adelaide; Tony Shaw, former Australian Communications Authority Chairman; [...]

Byte Into It - 12 Dec 07

Here comes the supercomputer on a chip - Technology - theage.com.au
IBM says it has made a breakthrough in converting electrical signals into light pulses that brings closer the day when supercomputing, which now requires huge machines, will be done on a single chip. Using light instead of wires to send information between
the cores could be [...]

Byte Into It - 05 Dec 07

BBC NEWS | Europe | Rise in broadband use in Europe
A total of 42% of households in the EU now have a broadband connection, according to an official survey.That represents a 12 percentage point rise on the figure for 2006.
The survey, carried out by national statistics offices across Europe, also appears to confirm a [...]

Byte Into It - 28 Nov 07

Digg - Is this the most newbie-friendly/easy distro so far? Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna
Linux Mint 4.0 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other [...]