News (50)

  • RIM records all employee calls

    BlackBerry maker Research in Motion admitted yesterday that it recorded all employee conversations in the interest of maintaining control over intellectual property.

  • IBM to cool hot chips with tiny water pipes

    Scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are working on a microchip that uses micropipes of water to cool itself.

  • WA govt slammed for bogus data-disposal policy

    West Australian government agencies are too laissez faire with the disposal of old computers, according to a report by the WA Auditor General.

  • Jetstar Web site casualty of AU$1 fare war

    update: JetStar's online booking system has melted down for the second time this year after it today released 10,000 one-way seats at AU$1 each.

  • CA's virus zoo reaches melting point

    Software vendor CA plans to move its Melbourne-based antivirus labs to a new facility after exhausting the space and energy resources at its current location -- by consuming as much power as an average metal-welding factory.

Blogs (3)

  • Robbing Joe the Shearer to pay Paul

    Joe the Shearer can wait. Telstra is clearly going to roll out its NBN in capital cities first, where the most customers live and, despite Telstra's assertions, many residents already have access to decent broadband.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Laughing your way through data disasters

    Storage is a serious business, but when things screw up in a chronic manner, sometimes all you can do is cackle louder than Jeanne Little and then get on with cleaning up the mess.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    Odd patents and the patently odd

    Today I'm taking a dip into the most interesting patents -- and patently silly ideas -- and what manner of messed-up services may be coming to your handset before too long, including the fertility phone, smellophone and Feng Shui phone.

Features and Case Studies (10)

  • Video: Fusing a fibre cable

    At Pipe Networks' landing station tour last week, the company showed ZDNet.com.au how to fuse two pieces of fibre cable together.

  • Mad scientist drills hole through hard drive

    A scientist who was frustrated by his PC's squeaky hard drive tried to stop the problem by drilling a hole through its casing and pouring oil in the hole. The squeak stopped but so did the hard drive. Data recovery firm, Kroll Ontrack offers this and nine more recovery highlights from 2007.

  • BMC CEO on automating IT, cost management

    BMC Software chief executive Bob Beauchamp on the revenge of the CFO and unravelling business' "ugliest ball of yarn."

  • How to slam spam

    If we're losing the battle against spam, how can we win the war? In this special report, ZDNet Australia presents a comprehensive resource centre for IT professionals battling spam.

  • Intel hastily redraws road maps

    The chipmaker has redrawn its product plans for 2005, shelving two chips and announcing vague plans about the processors that will come out next year.

Videos (1)

  • CA "virus zoo" reaches melting point

    Software vendor CA plans to move its Melbourne-based antivirus labs to a new facility after exhausting the space and energy resources at its current location -- by consuming as much power as an average metal-welding factory.

Reviews (15)

  • IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2

    While the interface of IBM's free office suite is sexy, its hunger for system resources and lack of features mean that OpenOffice.org 3 is still the best free office suite. Also, watch out for Symphony's lack of OOXML support.

  • Inside a notebook battery pack

    Ever wondered what exactly is inside your notebook's battery pack? We take the cover off a typical example, and explain how it can, occasionally, burst into flames.

  • Dell 5100MP Projector

    The 5100MP is a fine business projector, but it's less well suited for home cinemaphiles.

  • Apple PowerBook G4 (1.5GHz, 512MB, 15.2-inch TFT)

    The aluminium notebook from Cupertino gets an update, including a faster DVD burner, processor and graphics.

  • Sony DPP-EX50

    This snapshot photo printer makes beautiful prints for a reasonable price, but its design could use some work.

Create an e-mail alert for "melt"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
melt


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Suzanne Tindal Sick of broken tender sites
    Some of the state governments desperately need to invest in more user-friendly tender sites so that looking for information on government tenders doesn't have to be a game of blind man's bluff.
  • Array Cyberwar: What is it good for?
    In this week's episode, Cyberwar. What is Australia's place in the world of digital warfare? What are the implications for the NBN?
  • Array Is wholesale-only backhaul just a pipedream?
    The potential acquisition of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia has raised the question about whether vertically integrated backhaul providers will mean higher wholesale prices for ISP customers.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured