BAE Systems last week scored a US$8.5 million contract with DARPA to develop an "intrinsically secure" mobile network for military use in planes, ground vehicles, sensor systems mobile and stationary as well as handheld devices.
Hewlett-Packard's new line of printers may be cutting edge but you won't be able to buy one -- for the first time in history, the company will make customers purchase printing services, rather than the product itself.
Inmates at Canberra's first prison will wear radio frequency identification (RFID) bracelets or anklets to track their location, under plans by government.
University of California researchers are tinkering with technology that will, ideally, let helicopters fly themselves.
We've had the handheld PC and the Palm-size PC, but now Intermec Technologies and Microsoft are hammering out specs for a "data collection PC."
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At its Winning Edge event in Beijing, HP took the wraps off several new printers including large-format Designjets, a new document scanner and it's latest and greatest, Edgeline, an inkjet designed to replace high-volume office photocopiers.
When the government announced that Optus and Elders had won the bid to build Australia's bush broadband network, it provoked jeers and plaudits alike, but it was the ISPs' choice of WiMax as the bearer technology that has provoked the most furious storm of argument. Just how will the technology stand up to life in the bush?
Opera CTO Hkon Wium Lie must feel a special kinship with the "Band of Brothers" soliloquy that Shakespeare reserves for Henry V.
Artificial intelligence has gone beyond a gimmick to become a business tool you will almost certainly deploy in the future. But, as Simon Sharwood discovers, you may already be using AI without even knowing it.
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While the 2408wfp is more evolution than revolution, when all this goes for under AU$1,000 it's hard to pass up, especially if you're looking for something in the size range.
Tracking down wireless hackers is getting easier, but there are still bugs to work out.
The campaign behind Centrino, a group of chips designed specifically for wireless computing, is "second only to the introduction of the Pentium" in terms of importance for Intel, said company chairman Andy Grove.
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