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  • MIT shines light on solar windows

    Researchers at the US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have detailed a technique that can boost solar cell output and turn tinted windows into solar panels.

  • Photos: Army technology makes killing more efficient

    Every year, the US Army designates a set of its top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers.

  • Telstra readies Next G mobiles for barcode invasion

    Tomorrow Telstra will start pushing out a software update to half a million customers that will allow users to point their phones at a barcode and be directed to a relevant Web page.

  • Tech greats bid farewell to Gates

    As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley.

  • Photos: Bill Gates, a photo biography

    Just days before he finally hangs up his hat as Microsoft's figurehead and inspiration (on 27 June), ZDNet.com.au looks back at Bill Gates' career over the past 30 years.

  • Quark CEO: It's our fault kids don't know us

    Why don't young designers know QuarkXPress? Because the company ignored and failed to invest in Australia, according to Quark's CEO, Ray Schiavone.

  • "Two engineers better than 1,000 lawyers": Microsoft lawyer

    Brad Smith, Microsoft general counsel, got on stage at a open-source conference in San Francisco and tried to find common ground with the audience.

  • Facebook founder on apps, flak and cold hard cash

    At this week's South By Southwest Interactive Festival, Facebook founder and world's youngest rich list entrant, Mark Zuckerberg, sat down with Caroline McCarthy of ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com to talk about PayPal, pestering applications and press hysteria.

  • Wikipedia's neutrality is a 'facade'

    An Australian academic has accused Wikipedia of "US-centric bias" over the way the online encyclopaedia's administrators edit user-generated entries.

  • New laws cover red-light content in red tape

    The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will be introducing changes to the regulation of restricted content available online and via mobile premium services next week, even after an overwhelming negative response from the media and industry.

  • 2007: How was it for Microsoft?

    2007 was an eventful year for Microsoft, with the company playing what it considered to be its trump card (only to discover Vista wasn't trumps, XP was). But the lovable giant had its fingers in many other pies -- making for a year of management changes, entry into unclaimed markets and new alliances.

  • 2007: How was it for Apple?

    ZDNet Australia takes an iLook at the Year that was for Apple.

  • LinkedIn opens platform to app developers

    Professional social-networking site LinkedIn will open its platform to third party developers so they can build applications that can be used by the company's 17 million members.

  • Apple's Jobs more powerful than Gates

    Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world.

  • Standards set for voluntary carbon offsets

    Despite being a market projected to grow to US$4 billion over the next five years, the carbon offset market has only just settled on one standard to measure its currency.

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