• iiNet To Launch IPTV Service

    It might be engaged in a potentially messy court battle over piracy, but ISP iiNet hasn’t abandoned its “more content for users” approach, an attitude that already sees it offer access to iTunes and the ABC’s iView service without counting them against monthly download quotas. In a presentation at its AGM, the company said that…


  • OrbLive Apps Stream Media And TV To Your iPhone

    iPhone/iPod touch only: Streaming media server Orb has released free and $US9.99 versions of an app that lets you watch videos, listen to music, check documents and even stream live or recorded TV to your iPhone or iPod touch. Like other combinations that use Orb’s Windows-only (for now) software at their core, connection speeds and…


  • Email Activity Random But Cyclical

    Looking at aggregate data of 3,000 email accounts over a three month period, researchers at Northwestern University say that emails are responded to randomly, but the volume of sent mail follows predictable patterns. Namely, late at night on the weekends it’s much less likely you’ll receive any reply, for the obvious reasons — sleep and…