How can content be commercialised so that everyone in the content supply chain gets fairly remunerated for their work?
Ad supported television, music and videos seem unlikely to make their way to Australian mobiles, since the user numbers just aren't there yet, and the paid content market is too lucrative.
IBM has agreed to acquire content-management software maker FileNet for about US$1.6 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday in the US.
Oracle has been talking up its latest database offering -- but the signs are that Oracle customers will wait a few years before moving to 11g.
A new portal for the music industry and its enthusiasts can stand on its own feet. The investor free site offers an information database for Asia Pacific music scene.
If you hang around mobile rumour sites then you may have heard the latest Chinese whisper doing the rounds -- Sony is making a PSP mobile phone all of its own.
The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.
Sydney-based start-up Streem yesterday formally launched a new online news site, saying it would differ from traditional media outlets by paying readers a small fee for any content they submitted.
A while back, frustration with my inability to get online outside of the office drove me to invest in a 3G data service from Hutchinson's 3. For $30 per month, I get 2GB of data that's accessible pretty much anywhere I go (I do all my work in metropolitan areas).
Earlier this month, Telstra put out a press release trumpeting that it's come up with a new phone coaching service to help people who are "bamboozled" by their mobiles. Another excellent example of wrongheaded thinking from the mobile industry.
EMC's planned acquisition of Documentum represents an infrastructure-level strategy that could be the beginning of a much larger trend, with potential impact on how enterprises seek to address content, archiving, and storage as a completely synergistic, single-vendor solution.
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For mid-size Australian businesses that want to awaken as quickly as possible from their current Web nightmare - resulting from content-heavy sites - a new breed of ASP is emerging that promises fast relief.
The earlier forms of e-learning left many users dissatisfied. Now companies are realising that the big e-learning business opportunities are in creating content and delivery mechanisms e-learners will pay for, and will enjoy.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
iTunes 7 includes some great updates, like gapless playback, games downloads and a better interface, but Australian users so far miss out on the movie downloads available to American users.
Playing on the brunette-stereotype, the Nokia 6220 Classic is a 3G smartphone that transcends its demure looks with pragmatic appeal, a stand-out 5MP camera and assisted-GPS.
While parts of the iPhone 3G are superb, there are still some big features missing from this device. If you add up the extras the iPhone doesn't seem like a phone that everyone can afford.
The ROKR E8 looks to be Motorola's stab at the iPhone killer, with a morphing touchscreen display and media focused features.
While parts of the iPhone 3G are superb, there are still some big features missing from this device. If you add up the extras the iPhone doesn't seem like a phone that everyone can afford.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategi… Watch it now
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