It's been a highly entertaining week for ZDNet.com.au and Builder AU staff as we sifted through quite a few hilarious reader captions.
Find out which entry to our competition won a copy of Wired Brown Land, the new book on Australia's telecommunications industry.
Alcatel-Lucent isn't looking for work with other proponents of the government's $4.7 billion National Broadband Network, despite its partner Telstra being thrown out of the process, according to new Australian managing director Andrew Butterworth.
French networking equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent this morning confirmed its Australian chief Hilary Mine would resign for personal reasons and head back to her home country of the United States.
Someone this afternoon briefly started using the Twitter micro-blogging service to impersonate newly ousted NSW State Premier Morris Iemma; and the results were hilarious.
An online video start-up launched by three Australian entrepreneurs (including,apparently, an old acquaintance of mine from university) has been bought by Google subsidiary YouTube for a reported US$15 million.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
And now time for what's becoming a regular segment on Tech and the City: Odd Marketing Campaign Watch.
Bill Zikou is coming back after five years in the Balkans to head up Ericsson Australia ... but is he up to the task?
Max is Adobe's premier developer conference and this year it featured Star Wars, flying monkeys and electric cars.
The footage Four Corners displayed of a suspected Melbourne fraudster's house and technology during a police raid last week hardly fits the profile of a master fraudster.
The key for organisations wanting to learn how to best utilise Twitter lies in understanding the subtle differences between it and other social networking tools.
Find out which entry to our competition won a copy of Wired Brown Land, the new book on Australia's telecommunications industry.
Leslie Nassar, the satirist behind the Fake Stephen Conroy persona, tells why he started the identity, why he stopped, and how he thinks the Australian public reacted to it.
Ultimately MSI's X-Slim X340 is a disappointment. It is reasonably attractive, but it's not worth the price due to the horrible keyboard and budget touchpad.
In the face of an identical hardware platform, Toshiba's netbook fails to bring a unique point of difference.
The M50Vm is a great mid-weight laptop, with a few years of longevity in it as well. And at AU$1,999, it's definitely worth a look.
Lenovo's bright red foray into the ultraportable consumer space is for the most part a successful one, despite a few missteps.
Adobe's Media Player is an excellent application that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Shame about the currently available content.
Google Chrome OS demonstration
Vice President of Product Marketing Sundar Pichai gives a virtual tour of Google's new operating system, Chrom… Watch it now
Malcolm Turnbull's ghost twitterer
At the Sydney Media140 conference several weeks ago, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull admitted he doesn't pe… Watch it now
Surf the Net like it's 1991 with Gopher
The old Gopher protocol is not dead. In fact, it even has Twitter! Here's how to access it.… Watch it now
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