Microsoft has acquired a small search technology company Powerset to buttress its search efforts, but it won't shake Google's grasp of the search market in the short term.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in internet history, a French web official said.
It's not at all quiet on the fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network front, as telcos lodge their submissions on regulatory issues for the AU$4.7 billion national broadband network (NBN) and the Liberal party throws a spanner in the works by starting an inquiry into the government's handling of the network tender.
A recent AU$25 million lifeline to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) last month saved its AU$496 million tech overhaul from tanking, according to DIAC CIO Bob Correll.
The departure of Flickr’s co-founders follows the earlier resignation of Jeff Weiner, who was executive vice president of Yahoo's network division.
Intel entered the burgeoning clean-tech sector on Monday by creating SpectraWatt, a spinoff company that will manufacture solar cells, following IBM's latest foray into solar technology
The NSW budget has been even more lucrative to ICT than at first glance, according to a new analysis, which estimates the total tech expenditure for this year at almost AU$1.5 billion.
IBM claims its latest modular datacentre design can help cut energy bills by 50 per cent.
Broadband prices under a Telstra-owned national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network could rise by up to 15 per cent, a report commissioned by the Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC) has concluded.
The NSW state government handed down its 2008-09 Budget last night, with a surprise spend on video conferencing for schools, a boost to health tech outlay, and a pledge to tighten ICT capital expenditure.
Reality has been cruel to virtual worlds, with most failing to live up to expectations, especially in business environments. Did analysts get that right or are they also guilty of second-degree Second Life hyping?
As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.
The idea that attacks on computer systems could provide an alternative method of spreading terror and disruption has been a concern for governments since IT systems began to proliferate.
For years, CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff appeared in public wearing an "End of Software" button on his lapel -- just to rankle Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or any other software mugwump making a killing on selling packaged applications.
Two writers from ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com, Michael Kanellos and Declan McCullagh, debate Bill Gates' call for businesses to allocate resources that could alleviate problems in the developing world.
Investors may be panicking, but Seagate CEO Bill Watkins says business and tech trends paint a different picture than the one on CNBC.
The US sub-prime mortgage lending crisis could lead to economic losses totaling between US$150bn and US$400bn, according to The Wall Street Journal. While this dwarfs the effect of previous disasters such as the dot com bust, analysts remain optimistic that its effect on IT budgets will be flat, rather than disastrous.
Australian SMBs are hungry for storage, yet have been left underserved by major storage vendors. However, increasing demand for digital marketing and fast access to information is causing vendors to take notice of this once-neglected sector.
For Bankstown City Council, a 170,000-resident council south-west of Sydney, a desire to regain control of its printing environment -- and to reduce its impact on the environment -- recently led to a complete reconsideration of its printing, scanning and faxing processes.
In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
This collaboration between Prada and LG is a luxury triband touchscreen phone that comes with a leather pouch and branded wipecloth.
Intel has the upperhand when it comes to dual-core processing, and though this is a valiant attempt by MSI at incorporating the competitor AMD, the execution is found wanting.
Vodafone's enhanced notebook PC Card delivers what the mobile telco calls 'business class 3G broadband' -- but until more of the 3G network is upgraded with HSDPA, most users will remain stuck in economy seats.
Aggressive pricing, a slice of speed-boosting tech and a tempting 'unlimited' downloads plan puts Vodafone in pole position in the race for 3G datacard customers.
Microsoft Money 2006 is a worthwhile upgrade for current users who like to bank and pay bills online, but it requires Windows XP.
Seagate's Pushbutton External Hard Drive is capacious, but its performance is disappointing.
Blogging is an increasingly important element of business communication and collaboration. But different types of blog suit different kinds of business. Here's a classification.
They can print, copy, scan, and fax but can they open tins? We put multifunction devices to the test and find out.
It's not exactly cheap, but if you want wireless broadband on the go -- and critically, if you live in the right bits of the correct cities -- then it's your best current choice.
Printing solutions for the office come in all shapes and sizes. Check out our review to find the right one for your needs.
Indexing a large chunk of data is a bit like joining Weight Watchers: it's a useful first step, but it doesn't immediately solve the problem of how you're going to deal with all that blubber.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
Hopefully, you've been spending your end-of-year break better than the executives at Optus, who seem to have taken advantage of the annual industry-wide lull to get onetime WiMax aspirant Austar United Telecommunications to the negotiating table.
As expected, Senator Stephen Conroy -- who made a career out of picking holes in the actions of his predecessor Helen Coonan -- was named to Kevin Rudd’s front bench, bearing the interesting new title of Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (BCDE).
More and more Australians are choosing to work from home for at least part of the week.
There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a particular technology has hit its physical limits.
What can organisations do to keep the employees they have and maximise their potential?
What's the first thing you look at when you check into a hotel room? The bed? The view? The minibar?
A good merger always gets the pulse racing -- and Seven's takeover of Unwired could be shaping up to be one of the most interesting for a while.
The eyes of the world were on Australia this week as the APEC summit got underway in Sydney, and what they've seen is a city being held under virtual martial law — major roads blocked off, police cars outnumbering taxis and snipers openly hanging out on roof tops.
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In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
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