Apple has removed 250 apps from its app store because they were secretly stealing Apple users’ account and device identifiers to Chinese advertiser Youmi. The developers of the apps were unaware that this…
- Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
A US federal court has found that Apple infringed a patent held by the patenting arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The patent describes a mechanism that could be used in speeding up processors…
The heart rate measurement feature in the Apple Watch was intended as an aid to those using the device during exercise sessions. For a teenage boy it proved a lifesaver as a high heart rate reading prompted…
According to Microsoft, the future of work hinges on the sorts of collaboration that come from using a package of software like Microsoft Office. This has been especially embodied in its latest version…
Une plongée du côté obscur du web, où les lanceurs d’alerte côtoient les vendeurs de drogues.
Being overweight and inactive are two of the major causes of chronic diseases suffered by 50% of US adults. In 2012, the direct costs of diabetes in the US was estimated at being US $176 billion. At the…
The rapid uptake of adblocking software on Apple’s latest devices shows that most users would be happy to see the back of online advertising.
The OECD has just given the world an F when it comes to using computers to improve educational outcomes in schools and to give teenagers the digital skills they will increasingly need in life. In a report…
The US Surgeon General last week issued another call to action to get his nation walking. Faced with the fact that 50% of the US adult population (a statistic replicated in other western countries) suffers…
Apple’s latest product announcements came as little surprise as most of the announcements had been leaked prior to the event. With all Apple events however, especially those that are seen as unveiling…
Of all of the things that people do online, the act of offering an opinion is not only one of the most popular activities, but it also underpins almost everything else that happens. Sharing opinions is…
Intel has used the 5th anniversary of their purchase of security company McAfee to release a review of how the cybersecurity landscape has changed in that time. There are a number of surprising observations…
Jobs, or more accurately, not having a job, has been in the news this week. The Foundation of Young Australians released a report claiming that 40% of all Australian jobs would be at high risk of being…
Online ads are already under pressure from ad blockers, so Apple’s decision to include content blocking in the upcoming iOS 9 will make things even harder for advertisers.
Bitcoin has been declared the “end of money as we know it” and as a currency for our times; decentralised, and created specifically for seamless exchange on the Internet. That is, it would be, if everyone…
It has been a bad week for companies wanting to build businesses around make money from illegal movie downloaders. Last Friday saw an Australian judge refuse Voltage Pictures the rigth to send downloaders…
We are facing the “silver tsunami” of an ageing society that within a few years will see for the first time, more people over the age of 65 living on this planet than those under 5 years of age. Apart…
In a spectacular setback for Voltage Pictures and Dallas Buyers Club LLC, Justice Nye Perram today denied them permission to send letters to people they were accusing of having downloaded the movie Dallas…
Three lawyers and a police commissioner from the US, France, England and Spain have used an opinion piece in the NY Times to hold Apple and Google to account for providing their customers with unbreakable…
There’s a dark side of the internet, where almost anything goes, or can be bought for the right price.
Google’s rebranding to become just one company under the umbrella of Alphabet could complicate things for the tech giant.
The possibility of losing all of your files and photos on your computer is a frightening prospect for most people. So much so, that large numbers of users are choosing to pay the criminals holding them…
UK communications regulator Ofcom has released a report that gives a fascinating snapshot of digital society in the UK. It highlights the dominance of mobile, and the centrality of social media in social…
Windows 10 is being offered as a free upgrade to most Windows users, but you pay for it in the information you hand over to Microsoft.
This was a week where old technology reappeared, refreshed for another try at getting it right this time around. Microsoft released Windows 10 and trumpeted as its main feature the return of the Start…
