Arjen Lentz, executive director of Brisbane-based company Open Query, has become a member of the interim board of directors for the Open Database Alliance (ODBA) an organisation intended to promote the ecosystem around free and open source databases.
Security researchers have suggested that like food, browsers should have a best-before or expiry date. This comes after revealing that 637 million internet users are surfing with outdated and unpatched browsers, which puts them at risk from Web-based attacks.
Scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are working on a microchip that uses micropipes of water to cool itself.
Software which links ordinary mobile phones into a smart camera surveillance network has been developed by Swiss researchers.
IBM researchers claim to have created the first molecular switch with the potential to be built into larger-scale systems and, on the same day, published results that could lead to magnetic storage at the level of single atoms.
Businesses should no longer let IT staff dictate how a company secures itself, analyst firm says.
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Australian businesses need to make IT leaders part of the executive team to drive business strategy, according to one leading CIO.
Business Intelligence software gives managers the tools to draw from many data sources and take a snapshot view of their company's performance. Why are BI vendors defying the industry trend and continuing their stellar growth?
For years, Palm users screamed for expandability, a better price, and a USB connection. When Palm wouldn't give it to them, Palm's founder left to start a company that would.
The Handspring Visor Deluxe has the same rugged feel and size of its Palm cousins, but it adds a touch of flair with five iMac-like translucent colours: green, clear, blue, yellow, and graphite.
Because networks increase the number of interdependencies among machines, they tend to magnify problems. As the saying goes, "Networking is when you can't get any work done because of the failure of a machine you have never even heard of."
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