Keeping costs down was a high priority for New Zealand-based digital effects specialist WETA Digital in bringing Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's US$207 million King Kong remake to life.
Although incidences of profanity and swearing are rare in the ten million lines of the newly-released OpenSolaris code, the ones that do exist reveal programmers' frustration with their art.
Atari and Electronic Arts have been accused of forcing employees to work longer-than-usual hours without pay but is this sweatshop mentality endemic among game companies or is it a wider problem?
Move over Google, here comes Middle Earth. British-based Planet-Tolkien.com is the latest company to offer a Web-based e-mail product with 1 gigabyte of storage--a trend that kicked off in late March with the test release of Google's Gmail service.
Calling them the "new tools of the trade," the company announces a trio of revised editing and production titles for professional moviemakers.
Is Hackett the Saruman the once-good wizard who is seduced by the dark powers of Sauron of my recent Lord of the Rings scenario? Is something rotten in Renmark and elsewhere?
Like the one ring of Sauron, the power of Telstra's copper loop twists the minds of its ever-scheming board, which hid in its Collins Street boardroom until it was wrenched from its grasp by the forces of deregulation and the undead armies of ACCC head Graeme Samuel.
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.
With Australia's ICT sector experiencing a wave of layoffs, it's time to look for the positives. Take a leaf out of Steve Jobs' book and ask yourself what would you be doing if money wasn't important?
Atari and Electronic Arts have been accused of forcing employees to work longer-than-usual hours without pay but is this sweatshop mentality endemic among game companies or is it a wider problem?
Move over Google, here comes Middle Earth. British-based Planet-Tolkien.com is the latest company to offer a Web-based e-mail product with 1 gigabyte of storage--a trend that kicked off in late March with the test release of Google's Gmail service.
Qantas' budget carrier Jetstar made the headlines for all the wrong reasons when it launched two weeks ago. The root of the problem? Business basics gone awry.
Businesses need to remain one step ahead of the hackers and virus writers by ensuring they know more about the holes in their networks than the cyber-criminals, according to one expert.
Samsung's D500 was voted the best mobile handset of 2005 by the GSM association. Can the upgraded D600 outdo it in 2006?
The software giant's latest version of its flagship encyclopaedia seamlessly combines a wealth of knowledge with impressive multimedia, including Discovery Channel documentaries.
Calling them the "new tools of the trade," the company announces a trio of revised editing and production titles for professional moviemakers.
ZDNet Australia looks at software deployment packages designed to help you reduce network administration costs.
These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
Malcolm Turnbull's ghost twitterer
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