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Boost’s Telstra prepaid offering gets full 3G

After being unceremoniously drop as a reseller by Optus late last year, Boost has begun providing Telstra 3G mobile services.

As of last weekend, Boost was now not allowed to sell Optus mobile services, and has currently signed up to sell Telstra services, with paid SIMs offered to be activated from March one. Optus has been consolidating its retail stigmatisation, and has conjointly all over variety of alternative retail reseller agreements.

While Boost won’t sell Telstra’s 4G at this stage, it will have access to the total Telstra 3G service, in contrast to variety of alternative mobile telecommunications firms that wholesale Telstra’s 3G, like Kogan. this implies that instead of obtaining a restricted transfer speed of up to seven megabits per second (Mbps), the total transfer speed of up to 42Mbps service is offered to customers World Health Organization register with Boost. Continue reading “Boost’s Telstra prepaid offering gets full 3G”

Oracle opens second Australian datacentre

Enterprise software package vender Oracle has launched its second datacentre in Australia to handle client demand for hosting content regionally.

Oracle created its 1st datacentre operation in Australia in 2010 with its on-demand client relationship management (CRM) platform, that was hosted out of a facility in hand by Harbour MSP.

Speaking at a news conference in state capital, Oracle’s world president, Mark Hurd, aforesaid that the second datacentre can support the company’s strategy to create out the cloud, still as address knowledge sovereignty considerations from its native customers. Continue reading “Oracle opens second Australian datacentre”

Asus delays Taichi dual-screen ultrabooks

Asustek has delayed U.S. shipments for its dual-screen Taichi ultrabooks, which were available for order from retail sites like Amazon, Newegg and TigerDirect.

The Taichi tablet-laptop hybrid has an innovative design with two screens, one on the front and one on the back of a display panel. At first glance, it looks like a laptop with an 11.6-inch touchscreen, but closing the laptop activates another 11.6-inch touchscreen on the back of the panel for the device to become a tablet. Continue reading “Asus delays Taichi dual-screen ultrabooks”

AT&T to invest $14B for wireless and wired networks over three years

AT&T can invest $14 billion over future 3 years for wireless and wired capital enhancements, together with AN growth of 4G LTE service to three hundred million individuals by the tip of 2014, the carrier declared these days.

Previously, AT&T aforementioned it’d reach 250 million individuals with LTE by the tip of 2013. to induce the rise, the carrier plans to shop for a lot of wireless spectrum for its LTE service nationwide. Continue reading “AT&T to invest $14B for wireless and wired networks over three years”

Microsoft adding in-memory technology to SQL Server

In a move to hurry on-line dealings process (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server computer database management system.

The next version of SQL Server can feature the flexibility to host information tables or maybe entire databases at intervals a server’s remembering. “Any application that’s throttled by the I/O of a tough disk would profit by [having its data] affected into memory,” aforesaid Doug Leland, Microsoft top dog. presently Microsoft is testing this in-memory technology, codenamed Hekaton, with variety of shoppers. Continue reading “Microsoft adding in-memory technology to SQL Server”