Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced the Labor government's plans to bring the country's "best and brightest" together by convening the Australia 2020 summit in April -- but concerns have been raised over its use of technology.
Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig warns in a new book that structural change is clouding the outlook for the kind of bold advances that originally gave rise to the Internet. Is he an oracle, or an alarmist?
VeriSign's decision to launch a new Site Finder service that gives Internet users tools and options when they mistype a domain name has spurred a debate about the future of the Internet.
Without more investment in high-speed fibre broadband, Australia's competitiveness will suffer, according to academic Internet service provider Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet).
The troubled Web giant used to be known for its innovative ways. To find a way to a brighter future, it could benefit from looking at its past.
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This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
Sydney-based start-up Streem yesterday formally launched a new online news site, saying it would differ from traditional media outlets by paying readers a small fee for any content they submitted.
The introduction of new ICT technologies triggers a learning process that creates significant innovation across the Australian economy.
Eric Benhamou, former chief executive of both 3Com and Palm, has just joined the board of Finjan and taken a minority stake in the web security company through his venture capital fund, Benhamou Global Ventures.
Simon Jennings talks about the success of the Oxfam water bucket and the group's unusual catalogue which sells everything from camels to desks.
It's a business truism that success comes through growth and growth comes through innovation -- but how can you innovate in your use of technology without risking funding, reputation, and your entire infrastructure? Angus Kidman investigates.
In the last few years, most of the innovation in security has involved finding clever new ways to do things with existing technologies. Are there revolutionary changes in the wings?
Experimental network excels at long-distance collaboration; researchers hope to up ante with hybrid optical packet infrastructure.
Most organisations see Facebook as a waste of time but they also want staff to collaborate, innovate and be more effective. According to Gartner's Stephen Prentice, social networking and virtual worlds could change the world in the same way the Internet has already done.
Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker says Firefox is predominantly about promoting a healthy and open Internet where no company or individual holds a monopoly on innovation.
The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)--which will undoubtedly play a significant role in the Internet's future--is an idea hatched in Microsoft's labs.
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