The boom in online retailing, and especially consumers buying overseas, has seen the federal government order an inquiry into the whole retail sector. Announced earlier today in a statement, the inquiry will look “into the future of Australian retail by the Productivity Commission, the release of new research into online shopping in Australia and a [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Cloud storage service Dropbox has reached 1.0 status and includes better performance and accordingot the company blog posting, hundreds of bug fixes. Those bug fixes include invalid file name issues under Windows, locked Word and Excel files. Dropbox is also more efficient with hardware, reducing its memory usage by up to 50% as well as [...]
Online search giant Google has today announced the release of Google Maps 5. In a blog posting by product manager Michael Siliski, the latest version shows off a couple of important new features – improved offline performance and new 3D view. Google Maps 5 now uses new vector graphics mapping, allowing you to use the [...]
The world’s first Android 2.3 smartphone appear in stores in the US overnight, but at this stage, while Samsung’s Australian operation has said it will be bringing the phone to Australia, it sounds like it’ll be a case of “don’t hold your breath.” The Samsung-built Google-inspired Nexus S is available in the US from Best [...]
With Apple recognising the power of a centralised one-stop app shop and bringing it to the Mac desktop, you have to wonder whether such a piece of consumer simplicity would work for Windows? But before we get that far, it’s worth asking another question – will a Mac App Store devalue commercial software? The one [...]