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RMIT’s Executive Director of ITS, Brian Clark - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep26
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:52:07
Publish Date: 2012-07-26 23:00:41
Description: Interview with RMIT’s Executive Director of ITS, Brian Clark Leon and Garry discuss issues including: Apple revealing that its growth slowed in the most recent quarter. In both revenue and net income, the company posted the smallest increases in years, and failed to meet analyst expectations Microsoft posting its first quarterly loss in 26 years as a public company as it declared a struggling online ad business a bust Apple and Samsung beginning the latest round of their long-running global patent war with an Australian judge hearing evidence in what could be proceedings stretching out to 2014 Amazon planning to expand its mobile platform and broaden its offering of devices beyond e-readers and the Kindle Fire tablet. Amazon is now expected to introduce up to five or six tablet SKUs Samsung’s newest Android flagship smartphone — the Galaxy S III — surpassing 10 million sales in less than two months after going on sale Google admitting it seriously underestimated the demand for the 16GB version of its 7in Nexus 7 tablet, which has sold out The new owners of MySpace rebuilding the site and focusing on the service's core strength — music discovery and promotion More bad news for Kodak, with the US International Trade Commission dismissing the age-old photography company’s killer patent lawsuit regarding previewing images on a digital camera The Australian government becoming the latest victim of international hacking group Anonymous Cisco Systems planning to reduce its global workforce by about 2 percent, or 1,300 positions, as part of the company's continuing restructuring to cut costs and increase profits Google and Facebook ramping up US government lobbying spending in the second quarter, as the Internet companies chatted up government officials about everything from online advertising and immigration reform to self-driving cars A World Bank report showing there are more than 6 billion mobile subscriptions today. But that number “will soon exceed that of the human population” Harris Interactive research showing that Consumers are twice as comfortable with Amazon using their purchase history to target their offers compared to Facebook employing user profile data to do the same Qantas handing out free iPads to all of its passengers - not just the high-flyers in business-class. Researchers at the University of Florida creating nanorobots to attack Hepatatis C Introducing the iPICS2GO, a new device from ION Audio that literally turns your iPhone into a scanner. Ikea adding augmented reality to its 2013 catalog with new features that let consumers access films, interactive experience and photo galleries with their smartphones. Carnegie Mellon University's new Pedo-Biometrics Lab developing special shoe insoles that can help monitor access to high-security areas, like nuclear power plants or special military bases Introducing the ChargeCard, a rigid USB/iPhone charging cable that’s the size of a credit card German scientists developing a sturdy material called Aerographite made mostly of air, opening up huge implications for the future development of electronics Japan is progressing with its ambitious idea of creating a space elevator which would connect to a space port
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