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    Google has added a new element to its search interface that will let others' websites use geographically linked information.

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    The percentage of worldwide radio frequency identification (RFID) projects concerning tagging people has increased from eight percent to 11 percent over the last year, according to new research -- with the healthcare sector set to see the benefits.

  • RFID is good medicine: Meta

    The pharmaceutical industry is set to boost its use of radio frequency identification device (RFID) technology over the next 18 months, according to research group Meta. The move is being driven by the potential cost savings, the analysts said.

  • 3G iPhone to cause mobile data price war?

    Apple's 3G iPhone will hit Australia on 11 July, with Vodafone and Optus confirming they will offer the device. With Telstra also expected to join the party, what is the likelihood of a price war over data costs?

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    A European Commission advisory body has suggested that search companies delete data collected about their users after six months a far cry from what most companies currently do.

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  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    The true cost of analysis

    When developing a data warehouse, you effectively face three choices: expensive, ridiculously expensive, or ludicrously expensive.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Startup Camp Sydney: The review

    Three new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney".

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Mene, mene, tekel, iPhone: What the finger hath wrought

    Keen news readers would have heard about the strong earthquake that rocked south-western Greece on Sunday. Fewer may have realised that the quake was not so much an act of God, as an act of Jobs.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Labor: Clueless on wireless?

    If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.

  • Read the blog post - Paul Montgomery, ZDNet Australia

    Intranet 2.0: one more bandwagon jumper

    I get the feeling there will be a lot of tired tech buzzwords from fads gone by which will be wheeled out soon with the suffix "2.0" bolted on.

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    Cisco security maven John Stewart says never mind the OS -- attackers are after the apps, from IM to Office.

  • How a SAN can help you cut costs

    Even though the upfront costs are likely to be steep, a SAN can actually save you money. Find out if it's the best long-term solution for your storage environment.

  • IBM boosts hard drives with "tag 'n seek"

    IBM is expected to announce technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.

  • How to combine online, offline data

    Initial customer relationship management promises to analyse data across all customer channels never materialised. Feeding data from disparate customer systems into a central data warehouse is the right way to solve this problem.

  • McNealy touts 'excitement' of backup tape

    Sun CEO defends StorageTek acquisition and adds open source to his usual hit list of Microsoft and IBM.

Reviews (178)

  • IBM boosts hard drives with "tag 'n seek"

    IBM is expected to announce technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.

  • Contact management packages reviewed

    We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.

  • Archiving: what's in store?

    Tape, disk, or optical? We set a budget of AU$20,000 and asked three vendors to come up with a storage solution.

  • Battling for better backup

    How can Australian businesses configure backup software so that it reduces rather than increases workloads, and perhaps even provides some return on investment in the process?

  • Google Analytics

    If you're wary of Google knowing everything about your business and your web site, then Google Analytics is not for you. But for most, it's a useful ally in a challenging business climate.

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