Tag: book

Strategy

Why IT change can't be projectised

By Ry Crozier | Dec 8, 2011 | Comment Now

Q&A with author and consultant Don Reifer.

Strategy

Jobs brands Bill Gates 'unimaginative'

By Soyoung Kim and Poornima Gupta | Oct 25, 2011 | Comment Now

Book also explains why he didn't like on/off switches.

Software

Govt launches e-book strategy group

Apr 9, 2010 | 2 Comments

Fourteen industry representatives appointed.

Software

Amazon caves on book pricing

By Shaun Nichols | Apr 3, 2010 | 2 Comments

Company said to be killing off discounting practices.

Hardware

Japanese scientists build world's fastest scanner

By Iain Thomson | Mar 19, 2010 | Comment Now

Scan a 200-page book in one minute.

Telco/ISP

The Crunch: Aussie Internet turns 20; Apple iTablet madness

By Ben Grubb, Munir Kotadia | Nov 27, 2009 | 4 Comments

Telstra's long slow road to very fast data.

Networking

Extract: Telstra’s twin bites at AARNet cherry

Nov 26, 2009 | Comment Now

AARNet publishes a history of the Australian internet.

Software

US Justice Department rejects Google's book settlement offer

By Phil Muncaster | Sep 21, 2009 | Comment Now

Back to drawing board for Google in long-running copyright dispute.

Hardware

Scientists invent memory storage good for a billion years

By Iain Thomson | May 27, 2009 | Comment Now

Scientists are reporting successful tests of a new memory device that could allow terabytes of data to be stored without corruption for millions of years.

Software

Sony strikes book deal with Google

By Shaun Nichols | Mar 20, 2009 | Comment Now

Sony has landed a deal with Google to provide more than 500,000 book titles for the Sony Reader Digital Book.

Hardware

Amazon faces new legal challenge over Kindle

By Shaun Nichols | Mar 20, 2009 | Comment Now

Amazon's Kindle 2 electronic book reader is the target of a new lawsuit from the company behind the Discovery Channel.

Software

Google brings books to mobile users

By Rosalie Marshall | Feb 7, 2009 | Comment Now

Google has brought its Book Search service to iPhone and Android devices, giving users mobile access to millions of books.

Software

Google kicks off magazine project

By Shaun Nichols | Dec 11, 2008 | Comment Now

Google has begun a project to digitise thousands of magazines, with the company unveiling a deal with several publishers to begin adding magazine articles to its Book Search ...

Software

Google finally wins book deal

By Emma Hughes | Oct 29, 2008 | Comment Now

An agreement has finally been made with the Authors' Guild and Association of American Publishers which will cut some of Google’s woes.

Security

ACCC new release: 'The Little Black Book of Scams'

By Negar Salek | Feb 25, 2008 | Comment Now

The ACCC has released the latest edition of "The little black book of scams", a user friendly guide that draws attention to a wide variety of scams regularly targeting ...

Hardware

PS3 enters Guinness Book of Records

By Robert Jaques | Nov 2, 2007 | Comment Now

Sony's next-generation PlayStation 3 console has been recognised by Guinness World Records as being part of the world's most powerful distributed computing network..