GOES-O satellite goes into space

Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 11:58 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
NASA launched the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite O (GOES-O) into space at 6:51 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Saturday, June 27, 2009. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite...

NZ outsourcing on the rise as IT budgets tighten

Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 8:57 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
It’s no longer skilled labour shortages but tightening IT budgets that has largely driven New Zealand companies to outsourcing to meet their IT services needs in the economic downturn.

Star Trak Express selects Intermec

Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 8:29 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
Australian logistics and warehousing group, Star Track Express, has selected a mobile data capture platform from supply chain vendor, Intermec, to meet the company’s increasing customer demands for online tracking...

iPhone 3G S still not enterprise ready – says Gartner – UPDATED

Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 5:11 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
(changes are shown in italics) According to Gartner, the new iPhone 3G S and version 3.0 of the iPhone software go a long away towards addressing the concerns IT managers have...

iPhone 3G S still not enterprise ready – says Gartner

Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 5:11 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
According to Gartner, the new iPhone 3G S and version 3.0 of the iPhone software go a long away towards addressing the concerns IT managers have about allowing iPhones into...

Cut your iPhone call costs by 50 percent – with callback

Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 4:31 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
A small Australian company, BigTinCan, has developed an application for the iPhone, Windows, BlackBerry and Android smartphones that enables users to easily make cheap calls to other Australian, fixed and...

NBN legislation facing months of delays

Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 3:48 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
The Government has tabled its first piece of legislation aimed at expediting the rollout of the National Broadband Network, only to have it referred to a Senate enquiry - a...

RMS says Debian Mono decision ‘risky’

Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 11:20 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff
The founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallman, has termed Debian's decision to include Mono as part of its default desktop task a move that leads the...

Pro football player health study: Overall good, high blood pressure

Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 12:04 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff
According to a U.S. study published in the medical journal JAMA, National Football League players are overall in good cardiovascular health, but they do have higher blood pressure when compared...

Virtual chalk to keep tabs on parked cars

Posted on June 28th, 2009 at 12:00 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
PARKING offenders beware: a drive-by spy camera, which electronically scans the position of parked cars is being trialled in Australia.