Google co-founder Sergey Brin has put down a US$5 million deposit to book a flight into space with the space tourism company Space Adventures.
Western Australia is to sport Australia's own Silicon Valley, according to state Industry and Enterprise Minister Francis Logan, who yesterday revealed the country's biggest technology park will be based in Perth.
The Australian games industry's call for an investment rebate on a par with what is offered to the local film industry has been rejected by the federal government. In response, the industry is starting a petition to mobilise local support.
The Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) today petitioned the federal government for a rebate on local games development costs.
Gaming giant Tattersalls has decided to dump four Linux operating systems in favour of a Microsoft counterpart across its Maxgaming business.
Adelaide-based start-up Punchcard is hoping to bring 3D modelling skills to the masses with VideoTrace.
Sydney-based casual computer gaming start-up 3RD sense is about to embark on capital raising to hire staff and management expertise to capitalise on its potential to captivate people's attention. And the odds are good it will succeed.
Devices which flaunt their flash memory are often frowned upon in a corporate setting, but it turns out that you can actually use them as a novel recruitment aid.
The release of the iPhone 3G in July 2008 led to the creation of an entire industry where developers worked on their own applications to sell through Apple's App Store. This trend has since been picked up by larger companies. Read about why such a phenomenon is fast becoming a success.
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell talks about a mysterious new venture, Chuck E. Cheese's and former employee Steve Jobs.
Atari and Electronic Arts have been accused of forcing employees to work longer-than-usual hours without pay but is this sweatshop mentality endemic among game companies or is it a wider problem?
Employees at game software makers are speaking out about demanding hours, challenging companies to change their ways.
Mental lapses and warped childhoods add to the fun, explains creator Will Wright.
With the new 915 and 925X chipsets, the desktop PC undergoes its most sweeping changes in nearly a decade. From multimedia systems designed for the digital home to those for business, technology improvements abound.
Nintendo has sold millions of Game Boy Advance systems. But now Sony, Nokia, and others want a piece of the portable gaming action.
ATI has finally announced its newest next-generation graphics chip, the Radeon X800. We check out how it performs against Nvidia's latest offerings.
Those with the hardware and the bank account to back up this costly card will be rewarded with a truly impressive example of graphics hardware.
The N-Gage couples a mobile phone with a games console. Has Nokia managed to do this successfully? You'll have to read our Australian review to find out.
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