The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), Blind Citizens Australia, Media Access Australia, Able Australia and the Australian Deafblind Council have banded together to campaign for the demise of the CAPTCHA.…
IBM has found to have acted unethically during a bid to win work developing a new payroll application for the Australian state of Queensland’s Department of Health, but has not been held directly or solely responsible for the $AUD1bn blowout in costs on the project.…
Vid Ikea, champion of the disposable Allen key, is launching an app to show how its self-assembly furniture would look in your home – if you could put it together properly.…
BlackBerry is sharing its crown jewels – BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) – with non-BlackBerry devices for the first time: and the lucky punters are Samsung fandroids in Africa.…
The single-click Google account login for Android apps is a little too convenient for hackers, according to Tripwire’s Craig Young, who has demonstrated a flaw in the authentication method.…
For decades, dour broadsheet the New York Times and its style guide have presided over the world of posh writing: its English usage manual serves as both a bible for upmarket writers and a blunt instrument with which to beat sensationalist tabloid hacks such as your humble correspondent.…
Microsoft has fixed a potentially nasty set of authentication vulnerabilities involving Yammer, the “Facebook for business” enterprise collaboration and social networking platform.…
The big brainbox of Yahoo! Hadoop spinoff Hortonworks has bounced out of the company in uncertain circumstances.…
Microsoft would like to see more mobile apps in the Windows Phone store, and to that end it has launched a new online tool that it claims makes it possible for anyone to build their own app for the Windows Phone platform.…
The “blink”* element, a feature of early web browsers that made text blink on and off, has been banished in the latest version of Firefox.…