A 3-D iPhone application, allowing the user to rotate, zoom and navigate their way through the human heart, has been developed by eMedia, a campus company at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology’s Innovation in Business Centre.
Pocket Heart is the first 3-D medical application to come to Apple’s iPhone App Store and offers students a unique [...]
Apple’s latest version of its Safari web browser has accumulated a tally of 11 million downloads in its first 3 days, of which six million-plus have been installed on Windows machines.
Safari 4 has some new innovations, including Top Sites, which shows the user a collage of their favourite sites within one window, and Cover Flow, [...]
One of the world’s fastest-spreading viruses – code-named “Downadup” or “Conflicker” – has already infected over nine million computers.
Data security firm F-Secure has warned the virus is infecting corporate networks at a rate previously unseen.
According to F-Secure, Downadup uses several different methods to spread. These include using the recently patched vulnerability in Windows Server [...]
Microsoft announced that Windows 7 is going into public beta yesterday evening. The first beta version of the successor to Windows Vista is immediately available as a downloadable disk image to MSDN, TechBeta, and TechNet subscribers, while the general public will get to test-drive the new operating system starting Friday.
Windows 7 is expected to hit [...]
Dublin-based Delphi Technologies has been acquired by US firm SunGard for an undisclosed sum.
Under the deal, Delphi, which provides consulting and managed professional services to the telecoms and financial services sectors, will become part of SunGard’s European consulting business. Financial details were not revealed but reports suggest the Irish firm is worth around EUR20 million.
Delphi [...]
Microsoft on Tuesday resumed the availability of Windows XP SP3 at its website. Last week, the company pulled the update from its public servers due to some compatibility issues; it delayed the general release of Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), due to a last-minute discovered incompatibility. The update, released to [...]
Microsoft has said it is delaying the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a newly uncovered glitch.
The software maker said there is a “compatibility issue” between the XP service pack and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, a retail chain management program for SMEs. Microsoft advised those running Microsoft Dynamics RMS to not [...]
