Many businesses find that tracking blogs and online discussion groups yields candid -- and crucial -- information about their products, services and competitors.
New technology promises to increase the speed of wireless networks by a factor of 20, but the emerging standard is being delayed by vendors squabbling.
In the future, your hospital room will be online, and so will your gastric system.
In 10 years almost everything will be tagged, say the experts. So what are these little chips that are soon to be so pervasive, and how will they take over your business?
Sun Microsystems is about to take the next step in its plan to refurbish the reputation of its Solaris operating system in the eyes of a small but crucial group: programmers.
Kazaa's chief lobbyist, Philip Corwin, says Hollywood is sparing no expense to squash P2P.
Sometimes you just must have the latest technology, and swallow the associated risks of being the first to use it. We talk to Australian companies that couldn't wait.
We set the specs and the price and had a look at what Australia's PC vendors could come up with in terms of performance.
A key patent holder's demand for royalties has triggered concerns that promising RFID technology could become embroiled in an intellectual-property battle.
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says readers are united in their contempt for the idea of embedding chips in people.
The next generation in DVD technology will let consumers carry the equivalent of a hard drive on a disc, but what are they supposed to do with all that capacity? Interact, supporters say.
Business process outsourcing has much in common with its smaller sibling IT outsourcing, but there are still some lessons to be learned.
After a decade, even your mom buys books online. But are "secure" transactions secure enough?
The federal Attorney General, Philip Ruddock, has introduced amendments to federal parliament that would ease police access to stored voice-mails, e-mails and text messages.
Near Field Communication could take RFID out of the logistics chain and into film and music posters, and a UK vendor is now backing the emerging technology with a new reader.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
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