US-based Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday in the US as well as a countersuit of its own, alleging that Apple engages in anti-competitive business practices.
Struggling Australian smartcard and point of sale company Keycorp today said it would sell its smartcard business for $25.3 million to an unnamed international company.
The Federal government launched its AU$251 million Enterprise Connect network last night, which it hopes will kick-start productivity for SMEs working in areas such as mining tech and clean energy.
Commercial Ready, a SME grants program that subsidised innovation and commercialisation, was scrapped in this week's federal Budget a move that will save AU$707 million over four years.
Without more investment in high-speed fibre broadband, Australia's competitiveness will suffer, according to academic Internet service provider Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet).
Many Web 2.0 technologies and functions fall under the umbrella of KM: wikis for collaboration; tagging and "folksonomy", which is known to the fuddy-duddies as taxonomy; and blogging, which behind the firewall would otherwise be known as intranet publishing.
Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?
Community developers claim the Linux Standards Base could be the perfect retort to fragmentation scare stories bandied about by critics of open source.
MySQL chief Marten Mickos discusses software patents, Oracle, making money with open source and why his company is the Ikea of the database world.
Skype's CEO plans to make the software an accepted part of corporate communications -- both on the desktop and on smart phones.
Remember the Labor Party´s "Knowledge Nation" IT manifesto unveiled in the last federal election? It died a natural death. Will the party's communications and information policies for the October federal election suffer the same fate?
Legal music downloads in Australia are expensive, files are restrictive, catalogues are small and music lovers are better off finding their favourite bands in a record store.
Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
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