Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby has said computer code is more potent than the law -- and legislators are powerless to do anything about it.
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.
The high-tech industry has given the thumbs up to sweeping changes to the US patent system approved by the Senate and House committees last week.
The US Senate has taken a small step towards overhauling the patent system in a way that would benefit hi-tech companies like Microsoft
Biotechnology company Chr. Hansen's Australian offices will move to a private IP network as part of their headquarter's decision to link all global sites.
Sun Microsystems is about to take the next step in its plan to refurbish the reputation of its Solaris operating system in the eyes of a small but crucial group: programmers.
Two IT executives relate how their mentors not only provided a reliable guiding hand, but also thwarted potential career mistakes.
Social issues are a bigger problem than technology when it comes to the adoption of the "grid" philosophy of pooling computing resources, according to a study.
With every potential information technology purchase now under intense scrutiny, a few software vendors are working to help CIOs look before they leap into big expenses.
A report by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce in the US says the right investment in IT and biotech could have startling results.
IBM is giving away free Web services technology to help scientists track down DNA, as the company continues its push into the promising life sciences arena.
Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.
The company is making a play to lure Unix and Linux users to its Mac OS X operating system. Will a windowing environment do the trick?
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Sony moves ahead with development of the next version of its video game console. Right now, distributed computing is the name of the game.
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