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Asus has a trio of Windows 8 tablets on deck for the holidays, but the pricing is so high—$599 to $1,299 for a hybrid—that it’s going to be nearly impossible to compete in the marketplace. We were leaked Asus’ holiday roadmap and the slide below tells the tale. The challenges here are obvious despite Microsoft […]

Apple hasn’t announced buy-outright prices for the iPhone 5 in the US, but over the border in Canada you’ll be able to pick one up for US$720. That’s 15 percent cheaper than the Australian price, 16 percent less than in the UK, and a 19 percent saving on what the French pay. Given shipping, channel, […]

ING Direct wanted to get into the heads of customers, so the bank started a data-collection initiative to gain a deeper understanding of how it was interacting with customers. Greg Nichelsen(Credit: ING Direct) Now, years later, ING Direct faces the problem of having too much data, and is trying to make sense of all of […]

Telstra CEO David Thodey has told retail shareholders that the company expects to reduce the number of call-centre employees over the next five to 10 years, as customer service moves online. In August, Telstra announced that it would shed 651 jobs across Australia, with the company closing customer-service centres in Lismore, New South Wales, and […]

Google has acquired digital image-manipulation software firm Nik Software for an undisclosed sum. Google senior vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra welcomed the company into the fold in a post on Google+, saying, “we want to help our users create photos they absolutely love, and in our experience Nik does this better than anyone.” In […]

Japanese mobile social game network, Gree, has bought U.S.-based mobile game developer, App Ant Studios, for an undisclosed sum in a bid to grow both its game roster and overseas footprint including in the United States. In a press statement Monday, Gree said the U.S. developer, which is based in the San Franscisco Bay Area, […]

Chinese Web search giant, Baidu, has been ordered by Beijing’s Haidian district court to pay a total of 145,000 yuan (US$22,939) in compensation to three local writers for failing to protect copyrights of their work. However, a petition by one of the three authors, prolific writer and blogger Han Han, to shut down Baidu’s online […]

Telstra CEO David Thodey told retail shareholders in Sydney yesterday that the company was looking to expand its Voice-over-IP (VoIP) offering beyond small business to consumers soon, and would even look at offering VoIP services on mobile. In May 2011, Telstra embarked on a massive Quality-of-Service (QoS) upgrade to 1600 exchanges across the country ahead […]

Telstra CEO David Thodey told retail shareholders in Sydney yesterday that the company was looking to expand its Voice-over-IP (VoIP) offering beyond small business to consumers soon, and would even look at offering VoIP services on mobile. In May 2011, Telstra embarked on a massive Quality-of-Service (QoS) upgrade to 1600 exchanges across the country ahead […]

Google has released J2ObjC, a tool to make it easier for developers to write a common back-end for an app that can then be deployed across iOS, Android and the web. Read this iOS 6 features: How do Windows Phone and Android ICS compare? Read more The open-source tool, which automatically converts Java source code […]

Google has released J2ObjC, a tool to make it easier for developers to write a common back-end for an app that can then be deployed across iOS, Android and the web. Read this iOS 6 features: How do Windows Phone and Android ICS compare? Read more The open-source tool, which automatically converts Java source code […]

Security startups in Asia may not be deemed worthy investments partly because they lag behind their counterparts in the United States in terms of technology and brand recognition. They also face intense competition within their domestic markets, noted industry observers, who add companies with more appeal will be those with niche offerings or have partnerships […]

Security startups in Asia may not be deemed worthy investments partly because they lag behind their counterparts in the United States in terms of technology and brand recognition. They also face intense competition within their domestic markets, noted industry observers, who add companies with more appeal will be those with niche offerings or have partnerships […]

Japanese technology manufacturers have temporarily closed factories in China following anti-Japan protests in the country over the East China Sea, according to several Reuters reports on Monday. Panasonic had suspected productions of two electronics components plants in China and closed one factory, telling its workers to stay at home. This follows its facilities being attacked […]

Japanese technology manufacturers have temporarily closed factories in China following anti-Japan protests in the country over the East China Sea, according to several Reuters reports on Monday. Panasonic had suspected productions of two electronics components plants in China and closed one factory, telling its workers to stay at home. This follows its facilities being attacked […]

BT is reportedly trying to increase the amount of public funding it gets for deploying super-fast broadband in poorly-served parts of the UK, while also attempting to get off having to match public funds with its own cash. A leaked document suggests BT is trying to increase the amount of public funding it gets for […]

BT is reportedly trying to increase the amount of public funding it gets for deploying super-fast broadband in poorly-served parts of the UK, while also attempting to get off having to match public funds with its own cash. A leaked document suggests BT is trying to increase the amount of public funding it gets for […]

As the line fades between professional and personal use of free consumer apps for productivity tasks such as note taking and file sharing, adoption will likely remain among individual staff, unless the paid enterprise version offers sufficient features critical in daily running of the business across the whole company. Globally and in Asia, IT consumerization […]

As the line fades between professional and personal use of free consumer apps for productivity tasks such as note taking and file sharing, adoption will likely remain among individual staff, unless the paid enterprise version offers sufficient features critical in daily running of the business across the whole company. Globally and in Asia, IT consumerization […]

Web apps could become more secure through the use of a ‘web cryptography API’, a working draft of which has been published by the World Wide Web Consortium. The draft, published late last week, was put together by engineers from Google and Mozilla and is the first for the API to be publicly released. It […]

Web apps could become more secure through the use of a ‘web cryptography API’, a working draft of which has been published by the World Wide Web Consortium. The draft, published late last week, was put together by engineers from Google and Mozilla and is the first for the API to be publicly released. It […]

O2 is lobbying to speed up the process of clearing the 800MHz spectrum band for 4G services in order to reducerival operator Everything Everywhere’s head start. O2 wants to see a faster rollout of 4G services, after EE gained a head start on its rivals. O2 confirmed to ZDNet on Monday that it was in […]

O2 is lobbying to speed up the process of clearing the 800MHz spectrum band for 4G services in order to reducerival operator Everything Everywhere’s head start. O2 wants to see a faster rollout of 4G services, after EE gained a head start on its rivals. O2 confirmed to ZDNet on Monday that it was in […]

Big data is not hype and its importance and impact will be more far-reaching than the Internet, says a journalist tackling the subject in a new photobook. Rick Smolan who is working on “The Human Face of Big Data” project said, in an interview with ZDNet on Friday: “I really think that [big data] is […]

Big data is not hype and its importance and impact will be more far-reaching than the Internet, says a journalist tackling the subject in a new photobook. Rick Smolan who is working on “The Human Face of Big Data” project said, in an interview with ZDNet on Friday: “I really think that [big data] is […]

Telefonica has signed up to use augmented reality (AR) from HP. The Aurasma AR tech, developed by Autonomy and subsequently acquired by HP when it took over the British company last year, will be used by Telefonica to create new marketing offerings. Aurasma will be integrated into a range of media services to be used […]

Telefonica has signed up to use augmented reality (AR) from HP. The Aurasma AR tech, developed by Autonomy and subsequently acquired by HP when it took over the British company last year, will be used by Telefonica to create new marketing offerings. Aurasma will be integrated into a range of media services to be used […]

Apple said it landed 2 million iPhone 5 preorders in just 24 hours and handily topped previous records for the device. Meanwhile, Apple is seeing iPhone 5 demand outstrip supply. More importantly, the iPhone 5’s preorders may be highlighting a fundamentally different upgrade cycle for Apple’s iconic device. Simply put, Apple’s new normal for the […]

Apple said it landed 2 million iPhone 5 preorders in just 24 hours and handily topped previous records for the device. Meanwhile, Apple is seeing iPhone 5 demand outstrip supply. More importantly, the iPhone 5’s preorders may be highlighting a fundamentally different upgrade cycle for Apple’s iconic device. Simply put, Apple’s new normal for the […]

August and September have been pretty challenging months for Android; there are now two new range-topping handsets in the market that weren’t there just a few weeks ago — the iPhone 5 and the Lumia 920. Even so, October will be worse, especially when it comes to the Android on tablets.  Has the sheen come […]