Steve Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, has announced he will step down as Apple‘s CEO.
Jobs had already known he would step down if there became a time where he could no longer perform his duties as Apple‘s CEO.
“Unfortunately, that day has come,” he said when confirming his departure.
A survey of over 1000 Australians explored some of our search engine habits, and discovered a general lack of understanding around why search engines display the results they do.
It was revealed that,
About 6 per cent of Australian retail sales are made online, or roughly $12.6 billion a year. This is expected to increase significantly.
A Sydney Morning Herald article has some new figures showing strong growth in online shopping.
Data analytics company Quantium has revealed that there is a 20 per cent annual increase in the number of people who shop online.
The makeup of these shoppers? 40% are over 45, while those aged under 25 account for only 15% of total transactions.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority released figures last week showing growth across the board in Australian’s internet usage.
Some of the key findings showed that in 2010,
You can find more numbers at acma.gov.au
Google+ is a social networking website designed by Google to compete with Facebook, and offers similar features such as news feeds, photos and status updates.
The service was unveiled on June 28 with an invite system, which Google has said has created “insane demand”, so much so they have decided to halt users from sending any more invites.
Google have not yet set a date for a full public roll out of the new social networking website.
You can read more at sydneymorningherald.com.au
Samantha Amjadali from theage.com.au posted an interesting news piece on HTML 5 yesterday, offering a bit of an insight into what HTML is and what HTML 5 will offer in future.
For those who aren’t so familar with HTML, it is, as described in the article as “hypertext markup language. It is, in effect, the web’s DNA and creates a global system for identifying and linking web pages”. You could describe it as the language a website uses to communicate with your internet browser to tell it what to display.
HTML 5 is an updated version of this language, aiming to be complete by 2014.
You can read the full article at theage.com.au
As I’ve been reading the technology sections of various online news sources lately, I’ve been coming across more and more stories of websites being hacked.
Some of the more recent attacks included the high profile breach of personal data from Sony, down to a less serious fake news story on the PBS news website, announcing Tupac was alive in New Zealand.
theage.com.au has an article exploring these in more depth, along with other breaches and there effect on those who were targeted.
Fresh off our last blog post about Apple releasing the iCloud, it seems the name may have landed them in some hot water.
Reports over at theage.com.au say that US-based iCloud Communications is suing Apple for using the name they claim to have been using since 2005.
You can read more over at theage.com.au
Many in tech circles see cloud computing as the future, but it looks like it’s about to break into the mainstream.
Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, recently announced his intention to “demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device”
With iCloud, files are stored by Apple in data centres, or the ‘cloud’. This will give users access to content from any Apple gadget, without the need to store the data on your devices hard drive.
You can read more at smh.com.au
