Developing new technologies is high on the list of achievements for a number of other countries. How does Australia rate in comparison?
The government's trade promotion body, Austrade, is set to beef up the marketing efforts of its export development arm through a new database project.
Victoria plans to allocate nearly AU$2 million to an industry skills package for the state's technology students under measures announced today in its five year plan for the information technology and communications (ICT) sector.
An online payment system designed to allow export customers to easily and securely purchase Australian goods in their own currency has won financial support from the government.
The Singaporean government has unveiled a multimillion-dollar IT plan to help reduce the mountain of paperwork and repetitive processes associated with shipping goods in and out of the country.
One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?
Only a few years ago Atlassian and Omnidrive were the flag carriers for Australia's Web 2.0 movement. But recent developments have shown just how different the outcomes for start-up companies and entrepreneurs can be.
When foreign markets are willing to pay twice as much for your exports, it's usually a good sign. Unfortunately for Australia, the goods being traded are compromised PCs but why are Australians worth twice as much as Americans?
As CSIRO stands firm on its refusal to freely license key patents relating to WLANs, I'm reminded of the joke: what do you get when you grab a man by the testicles? The answer: his full attention.
Devices which flaunt their flash memory are often frowned upon in a corporate setting, but it turns out that you can actually use them as a novel recruitment aid.
In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
China has agreed to phase out an oft-criticised tax that US companies complained discriminated against foreign semiconductor makers, the latest step in improving relations.
Australia has a $14 billion trade deficit in ICT products and services, but is it something we need to worry about?
Discover how Visual Studio 2005 takes advantage of the latest versions of the .NET Framework and ASP.NET, and provides a variety of new technologies to make developers' lives easier.
Good financial planning and oversight start with a business plan. But not every client has the budget for heavy-duty commercial programs for plan development. Here's a free software tool to quickly put business plans together.
Norton AntiVirus 2010 builds on the immense progress made in last year's version, maintaining a low system profile while strengthening its security framework. It's not perfect, but even Symantec's detractors should check it out.
Norton Internet Security 2010 builds on the immense progress it made in last year's version, maintaining a low system profile while strengthening its security framework. It's not perfect, but even Symantec's detractors should check it out.
What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.
While the interface of IBM's free office suite is sexy, its hunger for system resources and lack of features mean that OpenOffice.org 3 is still the best free office suite. Also, watch out for Symphony's lack of OOXML support.
ThinApp, previously known as Thinstall, offers a more streamlined and portable approach to new software roll-outs and development. Software developers and administrators of large numbers of workstations and or mobile workers are bound to benefit greatly from this software.
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