Google's choice of Android as a brand name for its mobile platform is interesting and suggestive. Here, ZDNet picks out seven of fiction's most arresting androids and the lessons their fables have for business technology.
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Broadband consortium Terria has begun a national campaign to raise public awareness about itself and the planned national broadband network, simultaneously lodging a submission to the opposition-led Senate committee enquiry about the network.
UK internet service providers will be invited to tender for a British government scheme to monitor all internet communications and telecommunications in the country.
As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley.
The government needs to stop looking at IT as a necessary evil or the place to remove costs when the Treasurer comes calling.
Blessed is he who shepherds the weak through the valley of Telstra, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost DSLAMs.
Telecom needs to quickly jettison the forced Visionstream owner-operator deal for lines techies if it cares about its image.
Little wonder these RIA on Linux discussions make me feel icky, as we can dial in at least another two years of proprietary plug-ins dominating on open-source desktops.
Hillary Clinton's nine lives are not yet depleted and, despite allegations that her stubborn refusal to concede defeat earlier has fragmented her party, she fought her battle to the very end. By placing bets several ways, that battle may just turn into gold for her down the track. Has Optus taken a leaf out of Hillary's book?
Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the technology operation of Westpac Banking Corporation and its subsidiary St George in the last of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.
Microsoft Wave. That's like naming your new car the Ford Prius. Why go head-to-head with Google armed only with a glossy catalogue?
When Telstra launched its IT transformation in 2005, then chief operations officer Greg Winn said "IT is the root of all evil in the telco industry".
Firefox 3.5 forges ahead with strong developer support, but most improvements for casual users will probably strike them as minor.
Twitter is not the great evil for journalists and media. In fact, it is helping to renew the media and bring that great lady called "journalism" back to her rightful throne.
Google's chief sits down for an extremely rare, wide-ranging interview and discusses Google's two operating systems, government scrutiny, and, of course, evil.
Facebook keeps saying we just don't "understand" their seemingly constant privacy violations, but are they actually just plain evil? Buzz investigates.
It works well as a GPS navigator but, as a phone, the slow responses and awful text messaging really let the A702 down.
The BlackBerry 8700 series is ideal for mobile professionals who require always-on e-mail access, but it's not so good for non-business users.
ZoneAlarm Security Suite puts Norton and McAfee to shame with its easy-to-use triple-layer firewall, antivirus, antispam and now antispyware features.
The 3230 continues Nokia's run of style-plus-substance phones, offering a 1.2-megapixel camera, video editing and a positively lush-looking screen.
Motorola's clamshell v171 is a back-to-basics phone designed for the budget conscious consumer.
Google Chrome OS demonstration
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