27th February 2011 Archive

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• Optus: Google, eBay just as dangerous as network monopolies

  CEO’s radical proposal: create a content access regime

  While Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) is still top-of-mind for Optus CEO Paul O’Sullivan, he is also concerned how, in a more-connected world, content monopolies can be just as restrictive as network monopolies. Speaking to the Media Connect “Kickstart” conference in Queensland’s Sanctuary Cove resort, O’Sullivan …

  Networks 27 Feb 2011, 04:05

• Apple vanishes Java from Mac OS X Lion

  Prophesy fulfilled. Download required

  Apple has removed the Java runtime from its upcoming Mac OS X Lion, according to a report based on firsthand experience with a preview release of the OS. Appleinsider reports that the latest developer release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion removes both Java and Rosetta, the package used to run PowerPC code on Intel-based Macs. But …

  Software 27 Feb 2011, 04:09

• Doctor Who inspires another game, this time MMOG

  RE: Tardis?

  The Doctor will return later this year in the form of a free-to-play MMO game, announced by the BBC today. Doctor Who: Worlds in Time invites players to save the universe by solving puzzles and completing "pulse-pounding" challenges. Game developer Three Rings, famed for its MMOG Puzzle Pirates, says the game will "capture …

  Games 27 Feb 2011, 08:00

• Amazon confirms the terms of its declaration of war on Netflix

  Amazon Prime will form the basis of its 'free' online video offering

  Amazon has finally confirmed what was Hollywood‘s worst kept secret: that its Amazon Prime customers will be able to get some online video for free, just like the DVD rental customers of Netflix can get online video for free. To us this looks like an early experiment, and Amazon is thought to have about two million Prime …

  Media 27 Feb 2011, 09:30