The federal Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) has this week announced the recipients of the latest round of funding for Tasmania's Intelligent Island initiative, along with several million dollars more in innovation grants across the country under its Commercial Ready program.
Government attempts to censor Internet sites are useless because people can still use e-mail or other means to spread banned information, Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates said.
A row has broken out in the Netherlands over a government proposal to install Microsoft software on 245,000 desktop computers.
Beijing had received criticism for choosing Microsoft for the three-year, $3.6m deal instead of homegrown software providers, with an official from the Chinese Science and Technology Ministry calling the deal a threat to national security.
Melbourne IT has opened the Internet up to non-English speaking customers by adding Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters to its domain name registrar, despite reports that the Beijing Government is up in arms over the managing of Chinese domain names by firms outside the mainland.
At the Beijing Olympics, cybercriminals will be on the prowl for credit card information to steal, and security forces could well direct snooping efforts at unsuspecting travellers, warns the US government.
WiMax, the controversial long range wireless broadband technology, is set to spread across rural Australia from next year -- but despite the outgoing Howard government's ambitious project, both fixed and mobile variants of the technology are already being deployed around the world.
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got Microsoft its first billion customers. It's Will Poole's job to get the next billion.
Most critical business processes now depend on IT to some extent so it's no surprise that companies are recognising they must have effective control over technology. IT Service Management (ITSM) is increasingly being used as a framework for bringing IT in line with business strategy.
Charles Cooper says the tech industry should move beyond its take-it or leave-it approach to trade and human rights.
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