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  • Optus opens up mobile research shop with Huawei

    Optus has announced that it has joined Huawei in developing a mobile and wireless innovation centre in Sydney, in a move which could push the telco outside its comfort zone.

  • Intel reveals its vision for mobile phone evolution

    Intel has set its technicians working on a new initiative that it hopes will get mobile devices piggybacking on other devices its user may come across, as well as making use of the increasing number of sensors such as cameras and GPS within the device itself.

  • Q&A: NASA Ames Research Centre director

    Simon Worden, director of the NASA Ames Research Centre, talks on climate change, astrobiology, Google, elections and peace.

  • HP improves memory through circuit history

    Thirty-seven years ago, Leon Chua, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, theorised that symmetry demands that there should be a fourth fundamental circuit element, the "memristor" or memory resistor. Now HP thinks its memristor will improve memory and circuit design.

  • Aussie scientists put faster laptops, iPods in a spin

    A new class of materials invented by researchers at the University of Wollongong will make future gadgets work better and faster by tapping into the power of electrons.

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  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Australian Govt funds IT start-ups

    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Mission-critical now a meaningless phrase

    If you think two-thirds of your IT is mission-critical, you're either running an incredibly lean and efficient operation or you haven't got a clue how many applications you have and which ones you need to manage.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telco revenues: part two

    Great to see so many constructive comments on here definitely a case of the facts speaking for themselves.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Google: G'arn, I'll swap ya privacy for security

    Would you be happier that Google collects data about your Internet history if you knew their log data was used to fight some seriously nasty worms?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Give me a ship, and a trading scheme to steer her by

    Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?

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  • Photos: Aussie research speeds traffic, finds crims

    At NICTA's recent Techfest conference, researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) get to show off the projects they have been working on all year, including facial recognition tech designed to help catch criminals as well as better algorithms and sensors for traffic control.

  • Can graphene keep Moore's Law alive longer?

    Carbon. Is there nothing it can't do? As well as being the fundamental element behind life, the premium component in energy storage and the top contender for executioner of the human race, it's now beginning to fill in the forms for consideration as inheritor to silicon's electronic crown.

  • Gates: Open source is a trade-off

    Microsoft's chairman talks about the company's relationship to open source.

  • Microsoft researchers dream big

    Microsoft has staff investigating software that will find and summarise all the news items in which an individual is interested.

  • Nanoparticle research blows open new possibilities

    A Californian start-up has created a process that will allow for more powerful bombs, more efficient catalytic converters, better fuel cells and a whole host of other things at a new lower price.

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  • Sex will solve IT skills shortage

    20 years ago Indian students sweated for degrees in engineering and science, but today these courses are not being filled. The problem is sex appeal, says Gartner research fellow, Andy Kyte. It will take programmers driving sports cars to inspire kids to get degrees in the field.

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  • BlackBerry Storm

    The BlackBerry Storm looks smart, but its innovative SurePress touch-screen causes us a few concerns. We're also surprised and disappointed by the absence of Wi-Fi.

  • Microsoft Office Standard 2007

    If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.

  • Search Engines

    From the capital of Tugo to a Hang Seng IPO, it's on the Web -- if you can only find it. PC Magazine reviews 20 search engines that make the hunt easier.

  • Border patrol for Internet Explorer

    A security start-up is borrowing a technique from the research labs to try to give Internet Explorer PCs relief from Web-based attacks.

  • Toshiba touts data density record with new drive

    Toshiba says it has earned the right to say it's more dense than its competitors.

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