How many Australian scientists does it take to make the countries' biggest light bulb? Our photo gallery takes you inside the Synchrotron, Australia's only particle accelerator that creates high-intensity light for scientific imaging.
Sixty years ago, on 16 December, scientists at Bell Labs--William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain--built the world's first transistor and nothing has been the same since.
Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. But investors are still wary -- and for good reason
Chinese manufacturer Lenovo has gone from being the least environmentally friendly technology company to top of the list in Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics, but Apple still has a long way to go.
Cisco had hoped to forge an interoperability agreement with Apple in exchange for the use of its trademarked name "iPhone" but...
US networking giant Cisco Systems has invested an unknown amount into Melbourne-based Majitek, an Australian firm primarily created by the founding members of Sausage Software.
Sometimes companies create advertising campaigns that look and sound fantastic but on closer inspection are a real embarrassment -- and tech companies are often the worst offenders.
Six vulnerabilities in an open-source image format could allow intruders to compromise computers running Linux and may allow attacks against Windows PCs as well as Macs running OS X.
As cable and telephone companies begin offering Net telephony services to consumers in earnest, complications on the back end threaten to crimp cost savings for providers and ultimately dampen expectations for the much-hyped technology.
With many corporations banning the software for security reasons, Instant Messenger giants are looking at producing enterprise-friendly programs.
The Ethernet Disk offers affordable network storage in a sleek rack-mountable casing. Performance isn't great, but given its target audience this probably isn't a show-stopper. Expansion is an issue though.
Just how good are web filtering packages? We put eight of the best head to head in our Australian review.
A new technology for connecting PCs to peripherals and other computers will bear fruit in 2004, but it won't conquer the industry overnight.
Losing your mobile phone can be a traumatic experience, what with all your important contacts and SMS messages gone and--horrors--possibly in some stranger's hands.
Google Chrome OS demonstration
Vice President of Product Marketing Sundar Pichai gives a virtual tour of Google's new operating system, Chrom… Watch it now
Malcolm Turnbull's ghost twitterer
At the Sydney Media140 conference several weeks ago, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull admitted he doesn't pe… Watch it now
Surf the Net like it's 1991 with Gopher
The old Gopher protocol is not dead. In fact, it even has Twitter! Here's how to access it.… Watch it now
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12 days without ADSL: A local loop eulogy
An abridged history of the Aussie internet
G'Day USA: Aussie start-ups head to America
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