News (19)

  • IT patent issues simplified for businesses

    The revised European Patent Convention updates the original agreement with more flexibility, more legal certainty, simpler procedures and reduced costs.

  • Europe: No patents for software

    Software patent campaigners have reacted with surprise to an apparent change in the European Commission's stance on those patents.

  • EC pushes on with Europe-wide patents

    European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy is making a 'final effort' to push through the proposal for an EU-wide patent.

  • National RFID project set to go

    A pilot backed by the Australian Food and Grocery Council to test radio frequency identification technology in distribution networks will kickoff next month.

  • Static over RFID

    A key patent holder's demand for royalties has triggered concerns that promising RFID technology could become embroiled in an intellectual-property battle.

Features and Case Studies (8)

  • RFID round-up: Still in the trough

    Despite its clear benefits in stock tracking and the success of early, isolated pilot tests in tracking high-value assets, RFID technology is still spinning its wheels as ongoing high costs and unclear return on investment continue to keep once-enthusiastic customers away in droves.

  • Intel's Midas man

    He led the Pentium team, and had a major hand in Centrino... what's next for Anand Chandrasekher?

  • RFID: Can it help your business?

    In 10 years almost everything will be tagged, say the experts. So what are these little chips that are soon to be so pervasive, and how will they take over your business?

  • With RFID, corporate might makes right

    Retail powerhouses such as Wal-Mart gather in the United States to push development of controversial tagging technology.

  • Patent problems plague RFID

    A key patent holder's demand for royalties has triggered concerns that promising RFID technology could become embroiled in an intellectual-property battle.

Reviews (8)

  • HP debuts first post-merger products

    Hewlett-Packard has made its first new product introductions since merging with Compaq Computer.

  • HP aims at Dell with PCs, servers

    The "new HP" is in the midst of sweeping change as it begins sorting out its PC and server product lines, but one thing is constant: the threat posed by Dell Computer.

  • Multimedia notebooks

    For this comparison we looked at eight "AV Notebooks"-portables that can both capture video and export it back out. The notebooks we received came in a variety of speeds, the slowest being a Pentium III 750MHz and the fastest a Pentium III 1GHz.

  • High-End Desktop PCs

    We review some of the fastest desktop PCs around--all with processor running at 1.3GHz or better. Both Intel and AMD PCs are featured, and we take a close look at the role of memory in overall performance.

  • Multimedia PCs

    This is one of our favourite times of the year. The staff at the RMIT IT Test Lab gets to play with the ultimate in multimedia PCs.

Create an e-mail alert for "epc"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
epc


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Jacquelyn Holt G'Day USA: Aussie start-ups head to America
    The G'Day USA: Australia Week campaign today announced the finalists for the Innovation Shoot Out event, which will see eight Australian technology start-ups travel to San Francisco in January 2010 to demonstrate the commercial viability of their products in the US.
  • Array All I want for Xmas is Telstra pricing
    Five consecutive days without broadband has led me to what seemed at the time to be an act of desperation: contemplating signing up for Telstra's 100Mbps cable modem service.
  • Array Sick of broken tender sites
    Some of the state governments desperately need to invest in more user-friendly tender sites so that looking for information on government tenders doesn't have to be a game of blind man's bluff.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured