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13th February 2011 Archive

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  • Ambulance dispatch system hit by virus: reports

    Take two aspirin, call in the morning

    Australia’s ABC News is reporting that the dispatch system of the NSW Ambulance Service has been infected with a computer virus. As a result, according to the radio news report at midday on Sunday 13 February, emergency calls are being serviced by a manual system while staff work to clear the virus and return the ten-year-old …

    Security 13 Feb 03:40

  • Microsoft, Nokia, and MeeGo: Are they all doomed?

    Windows and Linux pass in the night

    The beat from the Silicon Valley drums has been that Microsoft is doomed because Windows is a PC operating system, phones outsell PCs, and Windows has struggled on mobile. QED. It's true that Windows phones have lost market share – and that Microsoft is starting from zero in terms of market share on Windows Phone 7, an …

    Operating Systems 13 Feb 07:00

  • HP launches webOS products, but no ecosystem

    Comment Palmy TouchPad cometh

    Hewlett-Packard has unveiled its first major webOS products since it acquired the mobile software platform with Palm last year. It has launched a 9.7-inch tablet, the TouchPad, and two smartphones. The TouchPad is initially a Wi-Fi only device but a cellular version will follow, HP promised, which may attract more carrier …

    Mobile 13 Feb 08:00

  • AAPT dents NZ parent’s profits

    Staff cut by 25 per cent

    Telecom New Zealand’s revenue-hemorrhaging Australian arm, AAPT, has managed to shed a quarter of its staff in the last six months, but still found ways to negatively impact its parent’s bottom line. Despite selling the consumer division of the business to rival iiNet for $60m last year, adjusted operating revenues decreased …

    Financial News 13 Feb 21:56

  • Surviving the cloud computing boom

    Part 1 Understanding the channel risks

    Cloud computing launches in Australia are coming thick and fast. Already, more than 30 companies position themselves as offering hosted cloud services, and the number is rising quickly. The rapid acceleration in the cloud provider market looks very much like at least one other boom in the Australian Internet market: the VoIP …

    Channel Register 13 Feb 22:13

  • Lenovo, NEC eye server tie-up

    ThinkExpress coming soon?

    It looks like Japanese server maker and Chinese server wannabe Lenovo are going to be hooking up to create and peddle servers. Speaking to Bloomberg in Tokyo, Masato Yamamoto, head of the platform business at NEC, said that Lenovo and NEC wanted to extend their PC deal to allow them to sell servers in China. Yamamoto did not …

    Servers 13 Feb 22:51