Microsoft researchers on Thursday demonstrated a new, low-cost method for manipulating a digital desktop or wall display with two hands.
Xerox has paper you can use again and again, which could cut down on energy and the cost of recycling.
A new class of materials invented by researchers at the University of Wollongong will make future gadgets work better and faster by tapping into the power of electrons.
Simon Worden, director of the NASA Ames Research Centre, talks on climate change, astrobiology, Google, elections and peace.
IBM researchers gave ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com an insight its latest "racetrack" memory, which IBM promises will bring a 100 fold increase in density — by storing data in long magnetised nanowires rather than disks.
Anti-US feelings are boosting the international market for open source software, according to the president and chief executive of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst. Other commentators prefer to credit national pride in non-US countries.
Mass server virtualisation has reduced Suncorp's server count, but datacentre manager David Chesterfield warns: beware the heat.
John Doerr, the venture capitalist known for his investment in Google, is now showing his love for Apple with a $100 million fund for iPhone application developers.
Patent applications are booming, with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) announcing a 4.7 percent year on year growth of applications filed under its patent cooperation treaty -- but questions have been raised over how valuable the filings really are.
It got delayed a few months, but a new, somewhat unusual supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week.
As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.
The current buzz around virtualisation may sound familiar to anyone with experience of high-end computing's origins — so what makes today's scenario so different?
Cisco's Nick Watson discusses 802.11n, the battle with Microsoft in unified communications, and security issues with Unified Communications Manager.
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.
Ever get the feeling that we aren't quite yet where we want to be? Here are 10 factors that may be holding back the world's technological development.
Google's Andy Rubin talks nuts and bolts about the Linux-based phone software, the lessons of Sidekick, and the beauty of the iPhone.
In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
SanDisk co-founder and CEO Eli Harari continues to fight the good fight against Apple's iPod juggernaut, but even he's starting to look toward the future.
Java has come full circle, and James Gosling has watched the 12-year journey. Gosling, who helped invent the Java programming language, talks about how Sun Microsystems plans to return Java to its roots and the role of the newly launched JavaFX Script.
Necessity truly was the mother of invention at AGR Upstream Petroleum, a natural resource exploration firm that last year found itself needing a way to co-ordinate a AU$100 million ship refit involving nearly 40 subcontractors in three countries.
Here are ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented -- and who very nearly succeed.
Heat or dots? The question is dividing the hard drive industry as it prepares for a major product overhaul.
Toshiba says it has earned the right to say it's more dense than its competitors.
Get the affordable, sleek, and sexy 5G Apple iPod for its audio virtues. Although video looks great, poor video battery life and a relatively small screen hamper its appeal to video heads
Bluetooth promises the world, or the operation of all within it -- that is, if you can get it to work in the first place.
Nokia's 3220 makes its presence known with flashing LEDs and a case that can 'write' messages in the air.
Call it spyware, adware, malware, or tracking software, those hidden bits of code may be broadcasting your innermost secrets to the world. Here's how to put a stop to it.
You know how MacGyver could make a car out of a ball of string, a couple of paper clips, and a garbage can? Well, you can't really do that with your Treo 600. But you can use a toothpick as a stylus, and more.
3G, GPRS, TransFlash, RS-MMC. Don't know what they mean? Check out our glossary of wireless terms.
Microsoft's experimental office of the future is full of gee-whiz work tech. But would any of it really be an improvement over the tech you use today?
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender — which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
Friends, industry watchers, readers; I come not to bag Telstra, but to praise it. The evil that telcos do often lives on after their Investors Days, while the good is often lost during interminable speeches.
Is our education system rapidly becoming archaic as we plunge headlong into a world where people trade their DNA on eBay?
Analyst group Gartner has been prominent on the conference front of late, cranking up its talk-fests in Sydney around outsourcing, application integration, data centres, and security. Technology managers come from far and wide for the events, but are they worthwhile?
This blog is supposed to be about the concept that is called Web 2.0, so I suppose I had better take a stab at defining it.
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In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
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