Richard Egan, co-founder of storage giant EMC and former US ambassador died in his home on Friday after a long battle with lung cancer.
Apple has confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs will step down from his CEO post while recuperating from a hormone imbalance, with his absence to stretch until the end of June.
The largest e-waste recycling centre in the southern hemisphere was opened this week in Sydney's Villawood amid controversy over the Federal Government's refusal to commit to a mandatory e-waste recycling policy.
Australia's biggest domain name seller NetRegistry has slammed the government's proposed internet content filtering scheme, claiming that the proposal would hurt small business.
An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire on Wednesday afternoon in the US.
Are Australia's privacy laws slowly killing Australians by preventing medical professionals gaining access to patient information?
Despite the fact that a study out this month has shown that the cancer risk from mobiles is more hot air than anything, how many people would be willing to put a base station in their home?
It is hardly surprising that Australian companies are beginning to enter the brave new world of Second Life.
Father, brother, cancer survivor, highly intelligent engineer and leader of the "Australian mafia" group of executives who battled their way to the top of global telco supplier Alcatel-Lucent. We present Mike Quigley, executive chairman of the National Broadband Network Company.
Second Life, with an alleged population of 7.979 million, is changing the way businesses think about what their customers want, and whether "virtual" is a viable way to give it to them.
Bug hunter David Litchfield says the Oracle community shouldn't be so smug when it comes to database security. He represents NGS Software, which has serviced Oracle in the past and Microsoft at present.
Dr John Halamka, the CIO of Harvard Medical School, is an early adopter of RFID technology -- he's got a chip implanted in his arm. These tags can keep track of personal medical records, as well as hospital equipment. Halamka talks with ZDNet.com editor in chief Dan Farber about recent advances in patient care, and electronic prescriptions.
In the 1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were going door-to-door at the UC Berkeley dorms selling "blue boxes" -- electronic devices that tricked the telephone network into allowing free long-distance phone calls.
Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.
Researchers in Europe have made advances with a new technology that could one day be used to detect explosives or biological weapons in parcels, locate cancers beneath the skin, reveal the state of wounds beneath dressings and see through fog.
IBM and a host of technology partners are working on software for the U.S. Defense Department that will let the idle time of anyone's computer be devoted to investigate anti-smallpox drugs, the companies are expected to announce Wednesday.
Stanford University scientists have shown that distributed computing, using thousands of low- end PCs, can have real results.
Could a Norwegian owned Web search utility unseat Google's stranglehold on the Web searching market?
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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