Sydney's technology start-up festival BootupCamp will tonight reveal the work of participants that have undergone the two-week entrepreneurial gauntlet.
Mobile technology specialist Myriad Group has acquired Xumii, a mobile social networking and instant messaging start-up with its roots in Australia that also operates in the United States.
There appears to be quite an Australian presence involved in the US$420 million buyout announced this week of US-based software house SpringSource by virtualisation leader VMware.
In its boldest bid yet to win the affections of emerging businesses, Microsoft on Wednesday announced a program that will allow some start-ups to use its server software free of charge.
Australian use of the Twitter micro-blogging service hit an all-time high for the week ending 10 January 2009, as a number of factors contributed to its growth.
The G'Day USA: Australia Week campaign today announced the finalists for the Innovation Shoot Out event, which will see eight Australian technology start-ups travel to San Francisco in January 2010 to demonstrate the commercial viability of their products in the US.
Web 2.0 start-ups never die, they just go into stealth mode.
The government needs to stop looking at IT as a necessary evil or the place to remove costs when the Treasurer comes calling.
Eighteen months after the Federal Government severed an important lifeline for innovative Australian start-ups, a new $196 million program has been announced to help fill the Australian funding void. But will it really help?
For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.
Five Aussie businesses take us behind the scenes during the early set-up phase of their tech companies.
October 8 marked the third installment of Sydney Ignite, a night of presentations with the unique format of 20 slides shown in 5 mintues with each slide automatically changing after 15 seconds. You can now watch, in no particular order, eleven presentations from the night.
Stephen Conroy's opus on the future direction of Australia's Digital Economy mainly curates existing success stories and government policies, and does little to demonstrate any form of roadmap to take the nation out of the Dark Ages.
Open Source Risk Management plans on Monday in the US to begin selling Linux users protection against copyright infringement claims such as those levied by the SCO Group.
The start-up guru lays out strategies for entrepreneurs.
Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr discusses his views on clean tech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter Group, talks about how Silicon Valley will be affected by the current economic downturn. She says that Web 2.0 companies will face a scarcity of resources and more hardship, and will need to buckle down and focus on new innovations, collaboration, and getting things done.
The new film, retells the story of the dot-com implosion in the summer of 2001. CNET.com's Kara Tsuboi met with August director Austin Chick and one of the movie's stars, Adam Scott.
For start-ups without a lot of time or money, is it smarter to develop for the iPhone first or the Android OS?
When Google introduced a Web browser earlier this fall, the debut was accompanied by much expectation as well as by much skepticism. But Chrome is starting to win over more converts -- including CNET News' Stephen Shankland, who explains why on today's CNET News Daily Debrief with Charles Cooper.
This sophisticated utility suite helps you manage the executables Windows runs upon start-up-many of which never show up in your Startup program group or your system tray. But is RegRun 3.5 useful for everyone? Our reviewer tries it out.
A revamped version of key disk drive management software in Linux will be based on a project from a start-up, spurring a retreat by IBM programmers working on competing software.
Lotus Foundations is a great solution for a wide range of businesses because it takes away the need for an on-site IT guru, and minimises management overheads so staff can get on with core business activities.
Lotus Foundations is a great solution for a wide range of businesses because it takes away the need for an on-site IT guru, and minimises management overheads so staff can get on with core business activities.
We're big fans of PC Tools Internet Security's ThreatFire component, and the overall toolset that PC Tools provides is robust, but the suite could be both faster and easier to use.
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