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Want to know more about what's hot or on the horizon in the IT space?

This section looks at some of the new technologies that are emerging, or could be upcoming in future months or years.

Check out the articles below to find out more about what is going on in the industry!

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Emerging markets drive mobile growth

11 October 2008 14:09

Worldwide mobile penetration rates are expected to reach as high as 95 per cent by 2013 from the current level of 46 per cent, according to a recent report by Tariff Consultancy.

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Non-equilibrium chips could avoid overheating laptops

2 October 2008 13:52

Researchers are re-examining the Second Law of Thermodynamics in a bid to manage heat from laptops and other miniaturised electronics.

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Tech stocks suffer dramatic downturn

1 October 2008 15:58

Tech stocks were hit hard on Monday as Congress rejected the US$700 billion bailout bill.

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Microsoft pushes for Wall St bailout to protect tech firms

1 October 2008 15:52

With much of Wall Street reeling from the current banking crisis, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer is lobbying congress to reconsider its refusal to bail out the teetering market.

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Otellini: PCs are the new time machines

26 September 2008 14:20

Intel chief executive Paul Otellini has hailed the PC as a 'time machine', which allows users to predict the future and examine the past.

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Telstra rebuffs R&D criticism

24 September 2008 15:43

Telstra’s chief technology officer Hugh Bradlow today responded to NICTA CEO David Skellern’s comments that Telstra was 'a disgrace' to the state of research and development in Australia.

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Intel ships first dual core Atom processors

23 September 2008 16:04

Intel has begun shipping the first of its dual-core Atom line of chips.

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Angel investor seeks geek chic innovations

23 September 2008 15:58

Australian Web site developer Geekdom is seeking geeky ideas for its online business incubation program.

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3D, 1.4 GHz processor chips emerge

17 September 2008 15:10

Researchers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) processor chip with synchronisation circuitry that runs at 1.4 gigahertz.

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NEC joins IBM 32nm chip plan

12 September 2008 16:19

NEC has become the latest company to partner up with IBM in its efforts to build a 32nm processor..

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Company claims to have made unclonable RFID chips

9 September 2008 15:15

Silicon Valley start-up Verayo is claiming to have produced a system that provides unclonable RFID chips..

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PHOTO GALLERY: Inside the Microsoft Tech Ed RFID boiler room

3 September 2008 13:52

Microsoft Tech Ed delegates are most likely IT professionals who like dance music, Facebook, Crysis, and have never attended the event before.

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PHOTO GALLERY: First glimpses of Aussie Tech Ed revealed

3 September 2008 00:01

Pinball machines, arcade games, a Guitar Hero competition, and a pseudo game show on core infrastructure. Microsoft's Tech Ed is clearly not just about getting a technical education.

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Firefox faster with TraceMonkey

26 August 2008 08:14

Firefox will run Web-based applications such as Gmail faster now that it has incorporated a feature called Trace Monkey, a source at Mozilla claims.

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Silverlight animations back Microsoft RFID network

19 August 2008 12:54

Microsoft is developing cutting-edge motion design visuals in Silverlight for its RFID network at Tech Ed 2008 in Sydney.

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Microsoft tracks people with RFID tags

19 August 2008 12:10

Breeze Consulting is creating one of the largest non-traditional RFID networks assembled in Australia to track certain people movements at Microsoft Tech Ed in Sydney.

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Banks turn backs on local technology

18 August 2008 12:05

Technology is more innovative if it has been adopted overseas, a panel of financial services experts has said.

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Tech giants pitch human rights platform

16 August 2008 13:17

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all offering Congress their solutions on bringing human rights laws to the internet.

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Oz needs to focus on research 'gap'

15 August 2008 12:14

New NICTA CTO John Parker believes there is a whole group of Australian innovators who fall into a research 'gap' and are forced to go overseas.

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Privacy report makes little room for emerging trends

13 August 2008 16:06

While the Australian Law Reform Comission’s (ALRC) privacy recommendations are based around advances in technology, Gartner security analyst Andrew Walls believes they do little to address major developing trends like social networking.



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