Make sure you’re not doing anything silly in a public place over the next month or so, because Google’s Australian Street View team are about to hit the road again to update the footage for the service. “Starting from next month in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and parts of Tasmania, we’ll be doing our best to cover as many of Australia’s public roads as we can during this summer” Andrew Foster, product manager [...]

Google has today released a couple of new tools that are sure to make it easier to search Google Maps for real estate listings. You can now find properties for sale from leading agencies such as Ray White, LJ Hooker, First National, Harcourts and Raine & Horne Australia-wide by visiting Google Maps and selecting “More” and then “Real estate” and can then filter these with different information you can enter in the sidebar. Google Australia [...]

The Herald Sun has released its own iPhone app which is sure to keep you up to date with all the latest spring racing carnival news. Now available from the app store for $2.49, the application provides up to date information on tips and form for horses racing in most of the upcoming events over the Cup day weekend. The app has been made for the newspaper by Outware Mobile,  and from what we can see appears [...]

It appears that in today’s Facebook platform update the news feed wasn’t the only thing to change. Users have begun seeing new image sidebar ads that don’t appear to be running on the Facebook ad platform. The format, which looks to be an IAB standard Wide Skyscraper advert, only seems to be showing on select Facebook pages in the right-hand sidebar. For our screenshot we managed to find them on the edit account settings page [...]

Some of you visiting the site over the past two or so days may have noticed the new look theme for our site. We felt the old style (based on the Arras WordPress theme) really limited our capacity to provide you with a clean, fresh looking source for news content on Australian tech issues. So we’ve had our heads down, looking for a new theme to build upon. We’re pleased to say we found one [...]

The Google Reader team has today announced a new section for Reader that will promote popular items along with a new option to filter your feeds for the “best” items.

OpenDNS has just announced that their paid plans are now available, with a family-friendly version coming in at $9.95 per year and an enterprise plan priced at $2,000. The service will now be split into three offerings: basic, deluxe and enterprise in the new focus by OpenDNS towards organisations who are willing to pay for the service. The Basic plan will remain free, whilst the Deluxe plan is targeted towards households and small businesses who [...]

Apple today announced that it beat all expectations last quarter, and posted revenues of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. The company is on a roll, selling 3.5 million Macs, 10.2 million iPods and 7.4 million iPhones in the quarter which ended on September 26. “We are thrilled to have sold more Macs and iPhones than in any previous quarter,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’ve got a very strong lineup [...]

Melbourne, Australia – Today the team at iTech Report.com are pleased to announce the upcoming availability of our new iPhone App that works in conjunction with iTech Report. Bringing features including browser controls (forward, back and reload buttons) along with the ability to view the special iPhone-only version of our website, itechreport.com, the application is currently undergoing the approval process from Apple but will be available for free once approved. Though the app is currently very simplistic, [...]

Wolfram Alpha has today launched its own iPhone app using its recently announced public API, but it comes at a cost which many are already labelling far too high – $50. Though there are many, many iPhone apps that are above the $50 mark on the iPhone App Store, this could be a sore point for the app that only works when connected to the internet. ReadWriteWeb has a full review of the new app, [...]