The world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, providing a glimpse of how data could be transmitted securely in the future.
Oracle overnight revealed it planned to acquire Primavera Software, a maker of project management software.
Australia's ICT industry for the year to 30 June 2007 made $123 billion and employed just under 300,000 people, paying $21 billion in wages, according to numbers released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Accenture this morning announced it had won a five-year, multimillion dollar contract with Telstra to maintain the new customer care and billing platform that the IT services giant helped develop.
AMD overnight announced plans to split off its manufacturing operations through a finance deal with a firm from the United Arab Emirates, which will leave AMD with total control of only its design wing.
StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.
It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
A reader suggested a key test to structural separation to compare shareholder return for BT with that of Telstra, providing a presumptive analysis of whether separation was a Good Thing or a Bad Thing. This was a great idea that I had to try.
There's a standard checklist of items you'll need to include for a datacentre: raised flooring, easy access to redundant power supplies, an air conditioner the size of a small hotel room, but the chances are you don't have a kitchen on there.
Internode has no incentive to provide free access to its Wi-Fi networks for any reason at all, apart from genuine love, and maybe the joy of finding a new way to flip Telstra the bird.
Thousands of Australian Web technologists and internet workers are attending the Web Directions South conference in Sydney this week. We dropped in to see what all the fuss was about.
The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a US problem and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.
How feasible is it that you could escape paying hefty licensing fees by using software subsidised by advertisements?
Despite having a quality management product on the books at Western Power, no one was using it, causing the energy company to have problems with software development quality.
BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble?
The Bold is what BlackBerry fans have been waiting for. It's feature-rich and sharply designed, let down in small measure by some cumbersome software.
At IDF, Anand Chandrasekher talks about Moorestown, a chip that has been designed for the next generation smartphone market and is expected to hit the market before 2010.
In the case of the bleeding obvious, IBM says open source needs good designers; a claim is made that China can activate your phone to snoop on you; and we take a look at the Defcon conference.
NICTA and UNSW have collaborated to create a clarinet playing robot designed to demonstrate the versatility of embedded systems. The robot won the ARTEMIS orchestra competition in Athens. Video courtesy of NICTA.
A group of Australian students have just been crowned winners of the Imagine Cup, a global competition in software design.
The Fujitsu T1010 has tablet features and a somewhat striking price point, but the rest of the package feels a bit lifeless.
Intel's X-25M solid-state drive enjoys several advantages over both conventional disk drives and other SSDs, including improvements to data throughput, boot time and notebook battery life. If you can forget about the cost, this is by far the fastest data drive available.
Although there are some design quirks, the Samsung Omnia promises to be a solid alternative to Apple's iPhone.
The 2135cn from Dell is a colour laser MFP with network support. While the 2135cn is a mixed bag in terms of quality and performance, it comes at a reasonable price.
It's a little slimmer and it has loads of storage, but Nokia's latest flagship model has little to justify its top-shelf price tag.
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