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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer this week said he had confidence in President-elect Barack Obama's leadership, during a whirlwind visit to Sydney.
Google is using users as crash test dummies to measure exactly what changes it should make to its main search website both to its famously Spartan search box and to the results it produces.
When asked how RFID worked, a group of novices responded to a recent academic survey with "witchcraft" and "magic".
New international guidelines aimed at improving the safety of youngsters using social networking sites will be released today but privacy advocates are concerned that no young Australians were consulted.
The global financial crisis might have tarnished some of Silicon Valley's lustre, but for many Australian technology entrepreneurs who have migrated to the US, it hasn't lost its bright shiny status.
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Having recently succumbed to the debatable allure of MySpace, I've taken an interest in how people represent themselves online.
A series of inspiring conversations with Australian chief information officers over the past five years has led me to believe the profession and ICT industry as a whole has the attitude, skills and drive to push through the global financial crisis and other challenges to the better world ahead.
Technology is a catalyst for business change, but that change doesn't always sit well with departments that have their own sovereignty to look after. David Braue asks whether IT can be centralised and distributed at the same time.
New technologies have changed just about every aspect of workplace culture. But how long can we go on with these changes without close examination of their overall effect?
To winemaker De Bortoli, Linux has provided the opportunity to save money and free up IT staff.
In the name of education, Microsoft invites security researchers to infiltrate Windows systems.
Fundamentalists are people who can't tolerate the idea that there are legitimate points of view other than their own. Publish something negative about Linux, and you'll soon find out what I mean.
The possible ill effects on human health of mobile phones and towers will be studied at a virtual centre comprised of research organisations from Victoria and South Australia.
Leading game maker Electronic Arts will promote Nvidia's graphics chips. Is this a black eye for graphics contender ATI Technologies?
Software maker Quark has announced details of the next version of its QuarkXPress publishing program, a key holdout in supporting Apple's Mac OS X operating system.
New research from the University of Utah has revealed a potentially lethal "tunnel vision" that drivers get while talking on a mobile phone.
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