Online auction giant eBay announced Tuesday it has agreed to sell 65 per cent of its stake in Skype to a group of investors in a deal that values the web communications service at US$2.75 billion.
Western Power is looking to install 10,500 smart meters as part of a four-year smart grid trial.
ACT Health Minister Katy Gallagher has decided to travel to Denmark and Norway in August to learn about the countries' e-health systems.
IBM has today announced the findings of a report on the economic benefits of implementing smart technologies in the hope of backing up its pleas for the government to invest more money in the sector.
A team of Australian scientists have demonstrated a photonic chip that boosts the data rate of fibre-optic connections by more than 64 times to 640Gbps, promising faster, cheaper internet for all.
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I have never been to Sweden. In fact, I have no real, hard evidence that Sweden really exists as anything more than a collective, Utopian vision where things just work, and life is better.
Well, here we are. After years of bluster, measured progress and loads of annoyance, Australia's broadband users head to the polls on Saturday with a score to settle.
In the broadband war, it seems, everyone has an opinion and those with a vested interest are playing fast and loose with the truth.
Skype sees the mobile market as the next frontier for its service, but economic realities in the voice market -- coupled with mobile operators who feel threatened by Skype -- could put the kibosh on large-scale adoption for some time to come.
MailGuard's Andrew Johnson and MessageLabs' Nick Hawkins -- the leaders of two popular managed e-mail services specialists -- go head to head.
"Project Green" effort to bring disparate business applications under a single code base will happen -- eventually.
Passwords will soon be a thing of the past, replaced by biometric and smart-card technology, Bill Gates reiterated on Tuesday.
The US Justice Department charges have been rejected, making way for Oracle's US$7.7 billion PeopleSoft merger. What does the future hold? Additional reading: New twist in software licensing
Denmark's Aalborg Zoo is setting up a system that lets parents use their cell phones to keep tabs on their children's whereabouts.
Japanese electronics maker NEC unveiled a mobile video phone to coincide with the launch of Hutchison's third-generation (3G) high-speed cellular data service that offers video.
Hutchison launched its '3' mobile service in Australia today, unveiling an aggressive pricing scheme which could possibly lead to a price war.
A new version of Opera's Web browser, with revamped small-screen rendering technology, is due to debut next week.
Online businesses are scrambling to get their Web sites on every pager, PDA and mobile phone. But they're learning that today's mobile technologies go only so far.
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