A visiting analyst has warned that an over-reliance on a temporary minerals boom and a decline in the number of science and engineering graduates will erode Australia's ICT capacity and hinder its unprecedented stretch of economic growth.
A controversial patent claim that could force Australian businesses to pay millions in royalty fees to conduct business over the Internet has been caught at the final hour.
The new Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, has lashed back at opposition claims that the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) will "harm" Australian software producers.
An expensive and ineffective patent regime is hampering the work of Australia's software community, a leading IT lawyer claimed yesterday.
The popular worldwide game service Ragnarok is coming to Australia and New Zealand in September, care of a new Australian online games provider Ongamenet.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
Friends, industry watchers, readers; I come not to bag Telstra, but to praise it. The evil that telcos do often lives on after their Investors Days, while the good is often lost during interminable speeches.
Analyst group Gartner has been prominent on the conference front of late, cranking up its talk-fests in Sydney around outsourcing, application integration, data centres, and security. Technology managers come from far and wide for the events, but are they worthwhile?
Is outsourcing a viable solution for large-scale IT organisations in Australia? We ask George Bell, CEO of CSC Australia, for his views on how the company plans to grow in today's tough market.
The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a US problem and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.
Google's Andy Rubin talks nuts and bolts about the Linux-based phone software, the lessons of Sidekick, and the beauty of the iPhone.
SanDisk co-founder and CEO Eli Harari continues to fight the good fight against Apple's iPod juggernaut, but even he's starting to look toward the future.
Necessity truly was the mother of invention at AGR Upstream Petroleum, a natural resource exploration firm that last year found itself needing a way to co-ordinate a AU$100 million ship refit involving nearly 40 subcontractors in three countries.
Australia will continue to lose IT inventions and skills to foreign interests because the government has failed to invest in education, says Gartner's government specialist, John Kost.
Bluetooth promises the world, or the operation of all within it -- that is, if you can get it to work in the first place.
Engineers are better at inventing stuff than marketing them to the masses. We explain the most recent advances in wireless mobile technology in our Tech Guide.
Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.
Sony has announced the Australian release of its latest MiniDisc portable player, the Net MD. We give you the lowdown on what to expect in our First Look.
Join ZDNet as we trawl through this week's product announcements, which ranged from high speed processors to mobile phone software with a French flavour.
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