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    As if the Ginger story hadn't gone on long enough, it's now being suggested that Segway isn't Ginger and that something amazing may still emerge.

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    The votes are in and the heroes have been proclaimed. ZDNet Australia recognises our readers' Hexadecimal Heroes, Gadget Gurus and Legends of the Code in the history of computing.

  • Pricing your intellectual property

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

  • Patent opponents claim EU success

    By withdrawing its support for the EU directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions, the Polish government may prevent software patenting being introduced in Europe.

  • Szulik: Software patents 'retard' innovation

    Software patents are slowing innovation, Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said on Tuesday.

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  • Apple's patent bending

    Apple learnt its lesson when it tried - and failed - to sue Microsoft for copyright infringement of its interface. It has since turned its attention to patents but should not be allowed to succeed here either.

  • Intel opens up 'Manitoba' territory

    The chipmaker ventures farther into the market for portable devices with an all-in-one chip for mobile phones, with the promise of richer multimedia features that don't frazzle batteries.

  • Disposable mobile phones, anyone?

    "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.

  • Human Transporter sales move slowly

    'Slow' best describes the speed and sales of the much-touted Segway two-wheeler.

  • IBM labs unveil super-dense storage

    IBM researchers have created a storage device that holds up to a trillion bits of information, or about 25 million textbook pages in a postage stamp-size area.

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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.
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