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Byte Into It – 23 Sep 09

Google Launches New Ad Marketplace; Display Ads Will Never Be the Same
You’re probably familiar with Google AdSense and AdWords, Google’s (Google) flagship advertising products. It’s how Google makes its billion of dollars. Highly targeted text ads appear on Google search and third party websites that are part of the AdSense program. Advertisers buy ads based [...]

Byte Into It – 16 Sep 09

Firemint Honors Australia’s Royal Flying Doctor Service With Flight Control Update
I knew there was a reason I loved Firemint’s Flight Control game, but I had no idea it was this important. With this latest release, the game which had you flying around the globe, landing airplanes at the local airport, Hawaii, and even [...]

Byte Into It – 9 Sep 09

Time Shift Viewing Will Finally Get Included In Ratings | Lifehacker Australia
TV scheduling often seems designed to annoy viewers, and the situation of recording one show to catch later while watching another one live is hardly uncommon. So here’s a “better late than never” development: come December, TV ratings figures in Australia will finally be [...]

Byte Into It – 2 Sep 09

5 ways to listen to music on the iPhone without using iTunes – Ars Technica
One of the major functions of the iPhone and iPod touch is, of course, music playback. The iTunes app has been designed in such a way to take advantage of the iPhone’s touchscreen. But what if you want to listen to [...]

Byte Into It – 26 Aug 09

Stress tests rain on Amazon’s cloud – Storage – iTnews.com.au
Stress tests conducted by Sydney-based researchers have revealed that the infrastructure-on-demand services offered by Amazon, Google and Microsoft suffer from regular performance and availability issues.The team of researchers, led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and in collaboration with researchers at NICTA (National ICT [...]

Byte Into It – 19 Aug 09

Bandit.fm Subscription Music Service – $10 Per Month | Streaming Music
Sony Music will operate the $9.99-a-month subscription site on www.bandit.fm on behalf of the four major labels, which means customers will have access to potentially hundreds of thousands of tunes.
Customers will choose from an array of artists, from current stars including Guy Sebastian and Delta [...]

Byte Into It – 05 Aug 09

Hacked Windows 7 appears on file-share sites – iTnews.com.au
The Ultimate edition of Windows 7 has already been hacked, and is widely available on the internet, according to various reports.
Windows 7 is not officially released until October, but a cracked version has appeared on file-sharing sites and other unofficial web destinations.
Microsoft has confirmed the breach in [...]

Byte Into It – 22 Jul 09

Google to newspapers: Put up or shut up | Technology | Los Angeles Times
In a post written by Josh Cohen, senior business product manager, on the company’s public policy blog Wednesday afternoon, Google said publishers can easily tell search engines to take a hike. All it takes is a two-line piece of code, which he [...]

Byte Into It – 08 Jul 09

China backs down from web filter plan
In a rare reversal, China’s government has given in to domestic and international pressure and backed down from a rule that would have required personal computers sold in the country to have internet-filtering software.
Just hours before the rule was to have taken effect on Wednesday, the government said it [...]