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  • WA's Perth to be the Aussie Silicon Valley?

    Western Australia is to sport Australia's own Silicon Valley, according to state Industry and Enterprise Minister Francis Logan, who yesterday revealed the country's biggest technology park will be based in Perth.

  • Tech feels first pinch of global downturn

    Those watching for signs overall economic woes are affecting the tech industry may not have to wait much longer.

  • Transistor hits 60th birthday

    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.

  • Cisco clashes with Calpine

    Cisco is not winning any friends in Silicon Valley as it wages war against the proposed power plant that could alleviate current power shortages in the area.

  • Microsoft shows off multitouch sensor prototype

    Microsoft researchers on Thursday demonstrated a new, low-cost method for manipulating a digital desktop or wall display with two hands.

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  • Kerry pushes tech platform

    Candidate calls for more "innovative economy".

  • Microsoft researchers dream big

    Microsoft has staff investigating software that will find and summarise all the news items in which an individual is interested.

  • BT bets on open development

    BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble?

  • Where did Microsoft's DRM vision go?

    Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.

  • Gates explains why Microsoft needs Yahoo

    For a man a few months away from leaving his job, Bill Gates has a lot on his mind.

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  • Release set for "sharper" digicam chip

    The first digital camera to use a new type of chip that promises sharper images and better color is finally set to arrive in stores, later but cheaper than expected.

  • Internet Phone Rant

    I think we can get over the notion that "wireless phones, pagers, and modems will surpass PCs as the most popular Internet access devices. It's pure rubbish, and the researchers who insist on claiming that a phone will be preferred to a computer as the way to access the Net should have their heads examined.

  • Practical nanotechnology

    Nanotechnology is constantly finding itself in the headlines. But are microscopic machines an inevitable part of our future, or just another hype-heavy get-rich-quick ruse?

  • EU plans to avert tech eco-disaster

    The information technology boom and bust of the 1990s is leaving a lot more than worthless shares and frustrated investors in its wake; it is producing a mountain of electronic waste as technological advancements make computers and other devices containing toxic products obsolete at an increasing pace.

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