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.
Electricity utility Country Energy said this week that the due date for completion of its smart metering roll-out was 2017, despite plans to reveal the locations of a trial of the technology with IBM in the next two weeks.
Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.
Microsoft has informed some of its partners that it has had to delay Windows Mobile 7, a much anticipated update to its handset operating system.
Apple is planning to release a smaller, 'nano' model of its iPhone handset in time for Christmas, according to UK Newspaper the Daily Mail.
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The eyes of the world were on Australia this week as the APEC summit got underway in Sydney, and what they've seen is a city being held under virtual martial law major roads blocked off, police cars outnumbering taxis and snipers openly hanging out on roof tops.
You hear a lot about mashups in Web 2.0 -- where one data source is combined with another to produce a new application where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- but the musical version of the term is far more apposite to corporate uses of 2.0 techniques than anything which relies on Google Maps APIs.
While news that Australia's copyright law will be updated is welcome -- so copying CDs onto a digital music player is no longer illegal -- there's still plenty to dislike about the proposed new regime.
Fedora is Red Hat's younger, more community-driven desktop-centric distribution. ZDNet.com.au grabbed the ISOs hot out of the oven to see what Fedora 12 was all about.
The level of ignorance from Australian politicians about technology can be staggering. Here's some of the worst examples we've seen, and a short recipe for resolving the issue.
Ten years ago they were the young turks of Australia's business community; radical free-thinkers on the path to fame and riches. Shortly after, all those dreams came crashing down. But where are Australia's first dotcom moguls today, and what are they up to?
Leslie Nassar, the satirist behind the Fake Stephen Conroy persona, tells why he started the identity, why he stopped, and how he thinks the Australian public reacted to it.
Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.
We shouldn'tbe surprised that Vista's security prompts were designed to be annoying. We also look at the new security paradigm and how playing dumb can help defend piracy.
The iPhone 3GS is faster and we appreciate the new features and extended battery life, but call quality and 3G reception still need improvement.
Document scanners come in many shapes and sizes, and HP's Scanjet N8460 is one of the largest and strangest-looking desktop models we've seen.
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Given all the expectations, we wanted more within IE 7 for XP, but Microsoft has given us less.
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