Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with London's "unethical" Oyster-card system.
RFID-tracked cars could be on the horizon, as Austroads, the association of Australian and New Zealand road transport and traffic authorities, investigates how best to deploy the technology.
Telstra has confirmed it's on track to complete the first phase of its technology overhaul by the end of June, and revealed the transformation has caused a AU$328 million spike in IT costs for the last six months of 2007.
Australia's software piracy rate is dropping, but not as aggressively as some in the industry would like.
Greater Dandenong City Council (GDCC) has utilised a recent rollout of asset management software to discover PCs it didn't know it had and confiscate inappropriate software installations.
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.
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Microsoft is taking a stand on an emerging technology that threatens to reshape software pricing models.
Macrovision's David Znidarsic says multicore processing is leading some software companies to make poor decisions about licensing.
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The Mozilla Foundation is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, an open source offering that was first developed to go head-to-head with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
AVG Internet Security 8.0 provides strong protection against malicious Web sites, but its full-system scans sometimes tax system resources and produce false positives.
Given its impressive performance, generous software bundle and superb screen, at just AU$2299 the R55 is a rare bargain.
The market for collaborative applications has grown significantly with the introduction of Web-based solutions for gathering and sharing information within organisations. In this review, we look at two of the most popular commercial collaborative platforms.
We pit veteran on-demand player RightNow Technologies versus Microsoft's latest CRM offering.
Sugar Suite from SugarCRM is a comprehensive, streamlined tool which offers indispensable services to both a company's employees and its customers.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
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