The Pope will send his first SMS today to thousands of World Youth Day pilgrims who have signed up to receive divine direction via technology.
At midnight 11 July Optus became Australia's first mobile carrier to sell the iPhone 3G. We were on hand to witness the festivities and to finally play with Apple's much hyped handset.
While it's not a direct line to God, plans for the Pope to send text messages to young people during World Youth Day promise a religious experience of sorts.
At this week's South By Southwest Interactive Festival, Facebook founder and world's youngest rich list entrant, Mark Zuckerberg, sat down with Caroline McCarthy of ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com to talk about PayPal, pestering applications and press hysteria.
Woolworths' investment in transaction processing tech has paid off for the retail chain, after it experienced a downtime-free Christmas period.
Banks are under a great deal of pressure to keep their systems watertight but sometimes they implement security policies that make no sense and create unnecessary inconveniences for their customers.
As Britney Spears can testify, some things can be brought down all too easily by their own popularity -- as Vodafone's not-so-merry Christmas shows.
The world's most adored tech company faced an unexpected string of criticism at its keynote in CeBIT last week.
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I used to be the only kid on the block with an iPod. Now I'm old and uncool, and salespeople don't understand me.
At midnight 11 July Optus became Australia's first mobile carrier to sell the iPhone 3G. We were on hand to witness the festivities and to finally play with Apple's much hyped handset.
A raft of security features in Microsoft Vista will help many consumers become "secure enough" but for businesses they aren't going to be the improvements which drive sales -- and nor do they deserve to be, according to some experts.
Thousands of customers attending what could be PeopleSoft's last independent annual conference want to know: Will Oracle prevail?
The vast corpus of human knowledge could soon be published on the Internet. The problem now is how to wade through it.
Technological advances have done wonders in many product lines, but here are some ideas that will hopefully be around by next Christmas.
Blow off the dust and get ready to dig through boxes. News.com's Kara Tsuboi takes a tour of the biggest garage sale for antique computers, vintage video games, and discarded gadgets - -the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Samsung's teeny tiny E590 packs a whole lot of features into a fuss-free candy bar model.
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The prices are coming down which means LCD monitors are fast becoming standard on the desktop. And business-grade 19-inch monitors are holding their own when it comes to the desktop market. We review 10 flat-panel models.
Nokia's 3220 makes its presence known with flashing LEDs and a case that can 'write' messages in the air.
Movie Factory is an excellent product for novice DVD creators, or anyone needing a quick and simple DVD authoring application. Read our Australian review.
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