Microsoft is delivering the long-promised spring firmware update for its Zune HD over the ‘next few weeks,’ company officials said on March 29.
I received an e-mail message from a Zune HD spokesperson this evening. Here’s what’s coming in the so-called Zune 4.5 update, according to that message:
* Smart DJ on Zune HD: “We added ‘Smart [...]
It’s impossible to know for sure, given Microsoft is continuing to decline to comment, but it’s looking like Windows Live Wave 4 — like Internet Explorer 9 — isn’t going to support Windows XP.
The latest version of the handy, dandy Microsoft CodeTracker is done and ready for immediate download. The March version includes a number of new Microsoft research projects, plus other codenames from other business units inside the company
Boingo Wireless has a new app for the iPhone, iPod touch, and, soon, the iPad that lets you buy an hour of service at a time: The Boingo Wi-Fi Credits app will let you connect from any iPhone OS device for $1.99 for 60 minutes at a single location in Boingo’s aggregated worldwide network. You can also purchase 11 credits for $19.99.
Boingo has a $7.95 per month mobile plan that all iPhone OS devices qualify for; the company reiterated today that the iPad would be supported out of the gate. That’s why two bucks for one hour seems a bit steep, since Boingo doesn’t require a contract commitment to use its mobile service.
The only other worldwide pay-as-you-go system is Skype Access, formally launched a few days, which charges US$0.22 per minute for on-demand access. (See my article from 18 March 2010.)
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US Airways plans service on its 51 Airbus A321s: US Airways signed a deal for testing with Aircell for its Gogo Inflight Internet service in mid-2009, and now is deploying. Five of its 51 Airbus A321 craft now have Internet access, with the rest of that model planned for completion by 1 June.
Customers will get a free session between now and 1 June when they register. Then US Airways will offer free service for everyone during the week of 1 June to 8 June.
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Netspace co-founders and sole investors Stuart Marburg and Richard Preen plan to leave the internet service provider before its $40 million acquisition by rival iiNet is completed by the end of April, iiNet chief Michael Malone revealed this afternoon.
I would like to reassure tax agents and the community we are doing everything we can to issue outstanding notices of assessment for 2008-09 income tax returns and I apologise for any inconvenience you have experienced.
The government has today responded to a package of public service and information technology reforms put forward by an advisory group in early March in report titled “Ahead of the Game – Blueprint for the Reform of Australian Government Administration”.