With just hours left before voting is scheduled to end in one of the most-anticipated presidential elections in US history, political pundits ranging from the amateur to the academic are scrambling to update their Web sites with final forecasts.
IBM has released a series of predictions that they see as the five big new trends in tech for the next five years. These include programmable electricity meters, smart car sensors, smart shopping displays, phones as wallets and better nanotechnology techniques.
Companies belching greenhouse gases will have to keep track of their footprint as of today so they can report their levels to the government.
Intel entered the burgeoning clean-tech sector on Monday by creating SpectraWatt, a spinoff company that will manufacture solar cells, following IBM's latest foray into solar technology
Tech vendors are missing out on billions of dollars by only focusing on improving 'energy efficiency' instead of carrying out detailed green accounting.
According to research firm Gartner, by 2010 75 percent of organisations will use "full life cycle energy" and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.
Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".
Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.
Companies are hanging on to their IT equipment longer to stave off spending what they can't currently afford. But IT systems have to be disposed of eventually; what happens when they do?
Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?
The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
What the S500i lacks in the high-end gadgetry of its competition, it makes up for it in style, ease-of-use and its budget price tag.
It features programmable shortcuts, e-mail, adjustable backlights and the ever so comfortable "softskin". All this for a bargain price? Read our Australian review to find out.
The BlackBerry 7130e is an expensive undertaking, but if you're a mobile professional the cost is undoubtedly justified.
Scientists at Japanese company Omron have bumped up the light cast by an LED bulb, potentially clearing a hurdle to the adoption of the low-power, long-lasting light source.
Faced with an increasing number of wireless technologies and standards, planning a long-term networking strategy is a daunting prospect.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas, such as their PayWave … Watch it now
Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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