Australian Technology

Archive: 10-2012

• Microsoft lowers Windows Phone dev access fee to $8

  The Windows Phone 8 SDK has finally released, and the Dev Center fee has been lowered from US$100 to US$8

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 30, 2012, 6:21 PM PDT

• The Upside: All about hackathons

  On this episode of The Upside, we look at hackathons and what they can do for your team.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 29, 2012, 8:52 PM PDT

• Plumbing the depths of Australia’s online job market

  Online jobs advertisements fell again to a new record low this past month, and IT is leading the drop.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 23, 2012, 9:45 PM PDT

• Don’t panic, we’ve been though Windows interface changes before

  In terms of changing the entire look and feel of Windows, do you remember when Windows 3 arrived?

  Posted by Tony McSherry | October 22, 2012, 8:39 PM PDT

• The Upside: Node.js Your Own Business

  How do you create a gaming platform that allows large numbers of concurrent players and works on a myriad of handsets?

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 18, 2012, 5:57 PM PDT

• Keeping an eye on Chrome’s memory usage

  Keeping track of Chrome’s memory usage is easier said than done when it is spread over multiple processes.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 14, 2012, 6:12 PM PDT

• When does AEST not mean AEST?

  Only in Australia could we have two identical time-zone abbreviations that mean different things.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 11, 2012, 9:39 PM PDT

• Australians opting for high-speed and mobile broadband

  Mobile internet subscriptions now make up almost 50 percent of all connections, but fixed line dominates the data download stakes.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 9, 2012, 12:46 AM PDT

• The tweet that broke the whale’s back

  Disgruntled developers who were disillusioned by Twitter’s moves to more tightly regulate its API could find solace in new microblogging service App.net, which shares profits with developers.

  Posted by Mahesh Sharma | October 7, 2012, 11:13 PM PDT

• Why TypeScript has a chance

  Microsoft’s typed superset of JavaScript packs a bigger punch than other alternative languages that compile to JavaScript.

  Posted by Chris Duckett | October 2, 2012, 9:44 PM PDT