technology
Opposition to can Aus $1.3bn school laptops program
Jul 29th
Opposition to can Aus $1.3bn school laptops programElection fun and games
By Drew Cullen • Get more from this author
Posted in Government, 29th July 2010 10:08 GMT
Australia’s general election is in full swing and disputes over tech funding and tech policy continue to intrude on today centre stage.
In today’s spat, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey said he would scrap the government’s “wasteful” computers for schools initiative if the centre right Coalition wins.
Last year, the government agreed a second round of funding worth $91m (£52.5m, More >
Vodafone iPhone 4 Pricing Revealed
Jul 27th
Vodafone have released their much anticipated pricing. Excerpt below
Vodafone releases iPhone PricingTuesday, July 27, 2010 in News
Everyone’s been waiting for our plan prices to be released, now we can let you all know. Hopefully it’s been worth the wait!
*Monthly credit can be used for Standard calls, video, TXT & PXT®, International voice, video, TXT & PXT®, Voicemail, Mobile Internet , Calls to 13, 18 numbers ** Unlimited standard national and international TXT, PXT® and video PXT® sent to personal mobile numbers ^ Standard voice calls to Vodafone and 3 in Australia
iPhone 4 features FaceTime, which makes the dream of video More >
Vodafone to release iPhone 4 details this Wednesday
Jul 26th
In a tweet from the official Vodafone twitter account @vodafone_au, Vodafone has confirmed they will be announcing details of their iPhone 4 plans on Wednesday. The new iPhone is expected to be released in Australia on Friday 30th July.
Qwitter: was it something I tweeted?
Jul 8th
This article was written by Rob Fitzpatrick, for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 7th July 2010 19.30 UTC
If you are interested in testing your resistance to psychic pain, may I recommend Qwitter? This is a service that emails you daily to impart who has “unfollowed” you on Twitter in the last 24 hours – who, among all the new friends you have acquired online, has decided they no longer want to read your hilarious 140-character posts. If Twitter is the bright, open heartland of limitless conversation, then Qwitter is the abandoned wheelie-bin behind the boarded-up kebab shop of failure, a place where More >
Twitterrific 3 isn’t that good.
Jun 25th
Today I downloaded Twitterrific 3 for iPhone and was left very disappointed. It is clearly a step backward, gone are easy to get to filters for replies, DM’s, favourites and my own tweets. Also gone is the ability to mark tweets within the app. Resizing for easy viewing is gone as is multiple account support on the ad-supported version. Whilst list support has appeared, popular things that are missing include: ability to add personal bit.ly api, ability to geo-tag tweets.
I had a short conversation with someone from the @Twitterrific twitter account, here it is.
Luckily @Twitterrific made this a new download More >
Faster backups with iOS 4
Jun 17th
Ooh faster updating with iOS4. Find out how: http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/06/16/itunes-9-2-paves-the-way-for-ios-4-and-iphone-4/
