In a bid to keep up with Facebook, social network behemoth MySpace launched its beta application platform to Australian developers last night.
The CEO of social application developer TheBroth.com says he has yet to see interoperability advantages from OpenSocial, Google's common API for social networking applications.
Having been informally rejected by Yahoo, the software maker is awaiting a formal rejection before going ahead with its next move, likely appointing its own slate of directors, a move that it has until 14 March to make.
Michael Dell and other high-profile technology company CEOs descended on Washington this week with a message for the US government: do more to encourage energy-efficient practices, but don't spell out specific standards for the products that companies like theirs build.
The Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) today petitioned the federal government for a rebate on local games development costs.
The management of corporate identity frameworks is being spread across too many teams of employees in a lot of large organisations, according to Westpac Bank's security boss.
Information and communications technology (ICT) companies and governments are planning to drive their anti-spam efforts to new heights later this year. But will they founder in a sea of conflicting standards?
This week, I asked Linux Australia (LA) vice-president Pia Waugh to elaborate on her recent remarks to a conference about code and culture in the open source community.
So, just what does services heavyweight Electronic Data Systems (EDS) really think of Linux?
Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC.
Could quarantining e-mails be a better way of dealing with viruses than the traditional approach used by most antivirus companies?
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.
Google's popular map and e-mail sites reignite interest in older Web tech, raising potential threat to Microsoft, Flash and Java.
They're used in everything from Google searches to Web tax filings. But standards struggle is rattling W3C and confounding developers.
Competing players are trying to integrate Java development tools, in the face of well-organised competition from Microsoft.
From discs to drives, our Tech Guide has everything you need to know about burning CDs and DVDs.
It'll take a little tweaking to get the most out of ATI's latest All-In-Wonder, but for the price, this TV tuner/DVR/radio tuner/graphics card is a fair deal.
Those with the hardware and the bank account to back up this costly card will be rewarded with a truly impressive example of graphics hardware.
The Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 XT Classic's screaming performance and thoughtful bundle justify its lofty price, but only if you must have the very fastest graphics.
As digital media publishers scramble to devise a foolproof method of copy protection, Microsoft is ready to push digital rights management into a whole new arena--your desktop.
New versions of software based on a popular file-compression technology could create headaches for users through their use of incompatible formats.
The ATI Radeon 9200 redefines the level of 3D performance for budget graphics cards, but it still trails the competition.
Nvidia appears to have evened the score with rival ATI when it comes to the speed of its latest graphics processing unit (GPU). But there's a question mark against some of the benchmarks.
In the past year, Microsoft appears to have done just what it asked a court not to make it do: fragment Windows.
Microsoft's Windows XP has received a fair amount of hype in the lead up to its release-Matt Lake and Josh Mehlman assess its usefulness for businesses.
Hillary Clinton's nine lives are not yet depleted and, despite allegations that her stubborn refusal to concede defeat earlier has fragmented her party, she fought her battle to the very end. By placing bets several ways, that battle may just turn into gold for her down the track. Has Optus taken a leaf out of Hillary's book?
As CSIRO stands firm on its refusal to freely license key patents relating to WLANs, I'm reminded of the joke: what do you get when you grab a man by the testicles? The answer: his full attention.
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In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
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