OzCrunch

If Snow Leopard is all about a bedrock for the future of computing, why do so many people still call for their legacy hardware to be supported?

Yahoo!7 and Telstra’s BigPond are preparing to exploit a 20 per cent rise in TV audiences predicted for the Olympics next month with comprehensive coverage streaming live for the first time online and to mobile phones.

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is trying to fix two “annoying” features that clients face when they attempt to call for advice when its staff are too busy — a persistent busy tone or being “chopped off” the line without an explanation.

SAP has pledged $12.25 million over seven years in funding, technology equipment and infrastructure to a local research initiative.

A changeover error transferring beep tag customer accounts to E-way systems has caused some people, who thought they had closed their toll accounts, to be falsely charged AU$100.

OPTUS has unveiled its pricing plans for the new 3G iPhone to be released later this month.

eBay has backed down on plans to force all of its users on to PayPal just as the competition regulator looked set to scuttle the move.

Telstra customers will receive the same service telco companies have been providing the law authorities for years, the ability to track people’s location by their mobile phone.

Optus will sell Apple’s 8GB 3G iPhone for the outright price of AU$729 and AU$849 for the 16GB model, when purchased with Optus prepaid SIM cards.

The Samba project on Tuesday released a major update to the file and print components of the server software, adding clustered file system support, compatibility improvements and other changes.