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Angels give wings to Australian start-ups 
Finance
Angels give wings to Australian start-ups
By Liz Tay | Jan 30, 2008 | Comment Now 
As a nation that is home to a well-developed education system and world-class research institutions, Australia is often lauded as fertile grounds for innovation. But the ...
 
A new year’s security resolution  
Security
A new year’s security resolution
By Mark Sunner | Jan 8, 2008 | Comment Now 
As we put the festivities behind us and fix our sights firmly on the year ahead, those criminal gangs involved in the nefarious activities of spam creation, phishing and virus ...
 
Guest column: Expensive data pitfalls in service-oriented architectures today 
Hardware
Guest column: Expensive data pitfalls in service-oriented architectures today
By Laurie Newman | Dec 27, 2007 | Comment Now 
In theory, SOAs have the potential to deliver greater efficiency and economies of scale in the enterprise, through a more flexible approach. In practice, however, SOAs have ...
 
Australian telcos champion Voice over Broadband for SMBs 
Telco/ISP
Australian telcos champion Voice over Broadband for SMBs
By Liz Tay | Dec 24, 2007 | Comment Now 
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is not a new term. Touted as a low cost alternative to traditional telephony, VoIP has a major role in a new wave of converged network ...
 
Guest column: Are you getting what you’re paying for? Making the most out of your investment in development 
Software
Guest column: Are you getting what you’re paying for? Making the most out of your investment in development
By Eldad Maniv | Dec 20, 2007 | Comment Now 
You’re paying your application developers to write code. But are they doing what you’re paying them to do?
 
Petascale computers: the next supercomputing wave 
Hardware
Petascale computers: the next supercomputing wave
By Liz Tay | Nov 29, 2007 | Comment Now 
The author of the world's first published collection on petascale techniques, David A. Bader, discusses petascale, exascale and the future of computing.
 
Can Naked DSL force Telstra to loosen its belt? 
Telco/ISP
Can Naked DSL force Telstra to loosen its belt?
By Mitchell Bingemann | Nov 29, 2007 | Comment Now 
With ISPs now able to strip away line rental and offer Naked DSL, should Telstra be worried?
 
Torvalds on where Linux is headed in 2008 
Software
Torvalds on where Linux is headed in 2008
By Charles Babcock | Nov 26, 2007 | Comment Now 
The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualisation ...
 
Guest column: How data integration can help make e-voting a reality 
Software
Guest column: How data integration can help make e-voting a reality
By Laurie Newman | Nov 21, 2007 | Comment Now 
Electronic voting, or e-voting, has been growing in prominence in recent times and for good reason.
 
Microsoft's Bill Hilf reveals its open source strategy 
Software
Microsoft's Bill Hilf reveals its open source strategy
By J. Nicholas | Nov 19, 2007 | Comment Now 
Bill Hilf, the man in charge of Microsoft's strategy for living in harmony with Linux lays out the company's opportunities with open source and the open source business model.
 
Clock speed is only half the story 
Hardware
Clock speed is only half the story
By Martin Veitch | Nov 13, 2007 | Comment Now 
Intel’s Penryn chips are set to usher in changes to desktop, laptop and server designs that reflect new realities in computing, going beyond raw processing speed to address ...
 
How big media's copyright campaigns threaten Internet free expression 
Telco/ISP
How big media's copyright campaigns threaten Internet free expression
By Cory Doctorow | Nov 6, 2007 | Comment Now 
Big media companies' efforts to extend copyright are hurting creators' abilities to find audiences for their work, argues cyber-rights activist Cory Doctorow.
 
Guest column: Mobile advertising – the million dollar question? 
Strategy
Guest column: Mobile advertising – the million dollar question?
By Boudewijn Pesch | Nov 5, 2007 | Comment Now 
One of the first technologies to kick off mobile advertising has been SMS and it is crucial that mobile users view this form of mobile advertising as delivering value.
 
Guest column: Planning for privacy 
Security
Guest column: Planning for privacy
Nov 2, 2007 | Comment Now 
Based on his recent tour of Australian capital cities Peter Cullen, Microsoft’s chief privacy strategist, discusses the importance of privacy protection in Australia
 
Democracy the Web 2.0 way 
Software
Democracy the Web 2.0 way
By Mitchell Bingemann | Oct 31, 2007 | Comment Now 
With the 2007 Federal election showdown now set in stone, it’s time to pull out your political placards and start canvassing the changes you want.
 
Innovation: essential to productivity and economic growth 
Strategy
Innovation: essential to productivity and economic growth
By Angus M Robinson | Oct 31, 2007 | Comment Now 
Australia has not made any gains in innovative capacity over the past decade. While innovation is the key to lifting productivity, living standards and competitiveness, it is ...
 
Linux's colonel of the kernel Andrew Morton: 'Fix more bugs' 
Security
Linux's colonel of the kernel Andrew Morton: 'Fix more bugs'
By Charles Babcock | Oct 24, 2007 | Comment Now 
Even though enterprise products have older versions of the kernel, Morton says there is a strong need to maintain the Bugzilla database and call attention to more security issues.
 
Taming the Web 2.0 beast 
Security
Taming the Web 2.0 beast
Oct 23, 2007 | Comment Now 
Web 2.0 is cool, it may even be useful, but it is also causing a headache for those paid to worry about IT security
 
Creating a greener footprint 
Hardware
Creating a greener footprint
By Sheryle Moon | Sep 25, 2007 | Comment Now 
There’s never been a better time to go green.
 
Let’s recognise the value of lifetime skills 
Training & Development
Let’s recognise the value of lifetime skills
By Sheryle Moon | Sep 1, 2007 | Comment Now 
It doesn't make sense to have technology experts driving taxis.
 
Google Mapplets and Google Gears details 
Software
Google Mapplets and Google Gears details
By David Field, Ed Dawson | May 31, 2007 | Comment Now 
Amazing new web technology announced at Google Developer Day in Sydney. What has Google invented now?
 
Mobile security: Tips and tricks to protect business from threats 
Security
Mobile security: Tips and tricks to protect business from threats
By Simon Sharwood | Mar 12, 2007 | Comment Now 
Anyone that’s ever had the less-than-pleasant experience of being cooped up in a cab with a taxi driver intent on educating you about the state of the world will surely tell ...
 
A slow start for virtualisation 
Software
A slow start for virtualisation
By Sholto Macpherson | Mar 7, 2007 | Comment Now 
Fear and indifference are retarding the spread of virtualisation technology in Australian SMEs, despite glowing reviews.
 
From Carriage to Content - The future of telcos 
Telco/ISP
From Carriage to Content - The future of telcos
By David Binning | Jan 10, 2007 | Comment Now 
Carriers have long acknowledged that they need to bolt innovative and appealing content services onto their fixed and mobile communications services if they are going to ...
 
Two become one: Making sense of storage and security convergence  
Storage
Two become one: Making sense of storage and security convergence
By Sholto Macpherson | Nov 15, 2006 | Comment Now 
The merging of two IT industries always leads to the formation of a new buzzword, followed by a period of furious head-scratching as to what exactly it means. Integrators and ...
 
Market heats up after feeding frenzy  
Storage
Market heats up after feeding frenzy
By Sholto Macpherson | Nov 15, 2006 | Comment Now 
In an industry swimming with fish of all sizes, 2006 will remembered as the year in which the storage predators went to lunch. After its multi-billion dollar purchase of ...
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