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  • Aust motoring clubs deliver digital hub

    The Australian Telematics Services Hub (ATSH) is -the digital glue that connects the dashboard, mobile phone, motorist, fleet manager, auto manufacturer or importer and content provider," according to Intelematics Australia chief executive officer Adam Game.

  • Work demands causing Australians to text and drive

    Work obligations are prompting 40 percent of Australian motorists to break the law by using their mobile phones while driving, a new survey says.

  • Mobile users like disabled PC users

    Mobile-device users find they have the same usability problems that some disabled users encounter with PCs, according to researchers from the University of Manchester.

  • Victoria warns motor-mouth motorists

    Victorian Police have warned motorists they will crack down on the illegal use of mobile phones in vehicles, rating it as the fourth greatest threat to road safety behind, fatigue, drink-driving and speeding.

  • CDMA shutdown: Rural communities left in black spots

    The official word from Telstra and the Federal government is that the Next G Network provides equivalent or superior coverage to CDMA. Try telling that to the people of Mangoplah, NSW.

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  • SMS gives new voice to NRMA members

    With so many companies focused on major IT-driven transformation, it's easy to forget that even small changes can have a big benefit. For road motoring group NRMA Motoring & Services, however, a highly focused middleware implementation project has provided a new communications channel for hearing-impaired customers.

  • India 2.0: Yahoo sees development potential

    In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.

  • Microsoft wants another billion users

    Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got Microsoft its first billion customers. It's Will Poole's job to get the next billion.

  • Hybrid drive to extend notebook battery life

    Microsoft and Samsung showed off a prototype hard drive on Monday that can record data while idling, a twist that has the potential to significantly cut power consumption in notebooks.

  • Pizza Hut orders voice recognition with the lot

    Looking to slice operating costs and deliver streamlined ordering processes, Pizza Hut will soon add voice recognition to its Sydney and Brisbane call centres with a system based on VeCommerce's VeBook order fulfilment product.

Reviews (16)

  • Do mobile phones blind drivers?

    New research from the University of Utah has revealed a potentially lethal "tunnel vision" that drivers get while talking on a mobile phone.

  • Sony Ericsson T600

    The T600 is an attractive mobile phone and certainly one of the lightest we've tested. But is it light on the features too? Read our Australian review.

  • Panasonic ToughBook CF-U1

    Panasonic has created a new paradigm in rugged notebooks with the CF-U1, which is a nice balance between portability and functionality. However businesses should be aware of its limited performance, and note that protection comes at a premium price.

  • StarOffice 8

    StarOffice 8 is an impressive upgrade of Sun's bargain productivity suite, and a good buy for small and large businesses since it costs a fraction of the price of its main competitor, Microsoft Office 2003.

  • Study: What drives us to distraction?

    Why do some drivers crash while dialling their mobile phone, and others manoeuvre smoothly while applying lipstick, sending e-mail or fiddling with the radio in stop-and-go traffic?

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