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    Every year, the US Army designates a set of its top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers.

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    How can you calculate the worth of creativity and invention, as in the case of intellectual property (IP)?

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    The Federal Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) announced this week that it will conduct a review of Australia's national innovation system with the aim of cutting the red tape for inventive tech SMEs.

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    How can you calculate the worth of creativity and invention, as in the case of intellectual property (IP)?

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    Simon Jennings talks about the success of the Oxfam water bucket and the group's unusual catalogue which sells everything from camels to desks.

  • Are you a tech innovator?

    There's a surprising amount of creativity being uncovered in Australian IT departments as CIOs and IT managers look for new ways to solve recurring problems.

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    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?

  • Photos: The history of the transistor

    In the 60 years since its invention, the transistor has shrunk from hulking origins to the point where more than six billion can fit in an area the size of a credit card. Follow the history of the transistor from its humble origins in Bell Labs to its possible quantum future.

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    "Talk, then toss," is becoming a mantra in a small corner of the mobile phone industry. A new breed of wireless handsets, expected to hit the market later this year, is low-cost, extremely easy to use and disposable.

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    Meet the next generation of MP3 players -- by the makers of the best-known portable music device on the planet. It is one of the first MP3 players to incorporate a copyright protection scheme for purchasing and downloading music online securely.

  • Toshiba e310: Palm killer, or wannabe warrior?

    Toshiba claims that its new PDA will annihilate Palm's grip on the budget market. Check out the first Australian review of the Toshiba Pocket PC e310.

  • The real truth about Centrino

    A casual observer might have gotten the impression from last week's colossal Centrino launch--which the company declared was its biggest product introduction since Pentium--that Intel had just invented 802.11 networking and wireless hot spots.

  • Palm lifts curtain on m500

    Yesterday, Palm gave the Australian media their first glimpse of the new m500 series handhelds. Despite the growing popularity of high-memory CE/Pocket PC-based devices, Palm demonstrated their commitment to the shrewd design principles and software engineering strategies they used as founders of handheld computing, opting for true innovation and interoperability over grunt.

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