|
Advertisement:
|
OCAU News |
Thursday Afternoon
(9 Comments)
(link) Thursday, 9-September-2010 12:59:22 (GMT +10) - by Agg
|
Google have a new trick up their sleeve, Google Instant, thanks mpot. Using the new system, as a query is typed, the search box immediately jumps to the top of the search page, and a constantly changing list of suggested pages appears. If the user finds the right site, they don't need to finish typing or hit "enter." More info here, and a couple of explanatory videos here and here.
They also have plans for a TV service in Australia next year. Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said the service, which will allow full internet browsing via the television, would be free, and Google would work with a variety of programme makers and electronics manufacturers to bring it to consumers.
Part of the deal that Labor with the rural independents covers affordable regional internet. "Whether you're on the broadband in Tamworth or on the broadband in CBD Sydney, seeking to communicate with another business in CBD Sydney, the wholesale price for your broadband will be the same," she said.
Speaking of which, there's some more photos of the NBN rollout in Tasmania. ZDNet Australia has obtained some more photographs of the National Broadband Network roll-out taking place in Scottsdale, Tasmania. The build will be coming to the mainland this month.
Australian scientists have made a tractor beam! Andrei Rhode, a researcher involved with the project, said that existing optical tweezers are able to move particles the size of a bacterium a few millimeters in a liquid. Their new technique can move objects one hundred times that size over a distance of a meter or more.
Unsurprisingly, Sony have issued a PS3 firmware upgrade which disables the jailbreak. Version 3.42 is a “minor” upgrade, and too-new to be featured on the official website. John Koller, Sony‘s Director of Hardware Marketing explains that it includes “additional security features” – and doesn’t mention anything about the high-profile crack.
Clifford Stoll is a little red-faced after an article he wrote in 1995 has resurfaced, about why the Internet will fail. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
Return to OCAU's News Page
|
|
Advertisement:
All original content copyright James Rolfe.
All rights reserved. No reproduction allowed without written permission.
|
Advertisement:
|
|
|