A Melbourne architectural firm, ClarkeHopkinsClarke, has created a mockup design of an ‘iPad wall’, a wall fitted out with hundreds of iPads. iPad Wall (Credit: CHC) The wall could be used in situations such as libraries, where users could browse books on the devices, or be used in place of televisions which are used currently to display interactive scenes or promotional information. “With the built-in features of the iPad and customisable applications, there is literally [...]

Google has just updated the developer builds of Google Chrome for Windows and Mac to version 5.0. Google Chrome (Credit: Google) Included in the update are a number of bug fixes, such as  the ability to use default downloads directory on Vista and Windows 7 and improved plugin stability for the Mac version. As CNET points out, the update seems to have more issues than it fixed, with some themes not fully compatible, “unusual starbursts [...]

Apple has just moments ago unveiled the iPad, its latest product which has been rumoured about for years and has finally come to fruition. UPDATE: The wireless-only iPad will be available worldwide in 60 days, whilst the 3G device should become available internationally in June, with negotiations between Apple and worldwide carriers set to start tomorrow. It will start at $499 USD for the 16GB wireless connectivity only iPad, with the 3G model another $130USD [...]

TechCrunch, one of the world’s most influential technology blogs, has just minutes ago been hacked again. TechCrunch logo (Credit: TechCrunch) Yesterday the site was down for more than two hours whilst the TechCrunch team attempted to find the way the hackers managed to gain access to their site, which also saw a message greeting visitors prompting them to visit duped.com. And now, users are being greeted with the following message which seems to be attacking [...]

The report, released by web measurement firm comScore, suggests that almost one in five Australians with access to the internet visited a retail store site during the Christmas period. Top 10 Retail Sites in Australia Based on Unique Visitors *Excludes visitation from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.(Credit: comScore) It seems Australians just can’t get enough of Apple, which, correlating with this latest report, saw 70% growth of Mac [...]

With the Apple media event just hours away now, yesterday the company released its financial results with CEO Steve Jobs saying they are ‘excited’ about the prospects of a new upcoming product. Latest fake Apple tablet images (Credit: Dustin Curtis) There’s almost no doubt as to what that product could be, and just hours ago Terry McGraw, CEO of McGraw-Hill which is a textbook publishing company in the US, confirmed what we’ve been speculating for [...]

Ever since the inception of RSS feeds there has been tools such asFeedity, Feed43 and  Yahoo Pipes that allow you to make an RSS feed out of any website, but today Google has released an update to Google Reader that allows you to track any website changes thanks to its own RSS feed creation tool. Sample Google Reader Generated RSS Feed “Feeds make it easy to follow updates to all kinds of webpages, from blogs to [...]

Apple has today announced its earnings for the first quarter of 2010, saying it has amassed revenue of $15.68 billion USD and a net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion USD with Mac sales growth in Australia of more than 70%. Apple’s January 27 Invite The company sold 3.36 million Macintosh computers (33% increase from last year Q1 and beating previous record by nearly 300,000), 8.7 million iPhones (100% Unit growth since last year) and 21 [...]

Google have just announced that their specially built ‘Street View  Trike’ has come to Australia, and has opened the polls for Aussies to vote for locations they think should be visited by the contraption. Google’s Street View Trike at Taronga Zoo (Credit: Google Australia) The trike, which allows Google to film off-road locations for their Street View service on Google Maps, today launched for the first time in Australia at the iconic Taronga Zoo. “We’re really excited [...]

In a testament to the true power of social networking site Facebook, Australian Danny Cameron found a camera which someone had left behind on a Greek island, setup a Facebook Group and over 200,000 members later managed to  track the camera’s owner down. Camera (Credit: D’Arcy Norman / Flickr) Cameron was on a holiday when he came across the camera on the edge of a road on the Greek island of Mykonos last year. After walking around the [...]