Liz Tay

Liz Tay is a journalist from Sydney, Australia. With a background in physics, she is most interested in stories about scientific or technological R&D.

A long-time technology enthusiast, Tay joined the IT journalism industry in June 2006. She has been writing for iTnews in various roles since late 2007, and currently reports on all things business IT for iTnews, CRN, and SC Magazine.

Besides shiny gadgets and reporting, she is a fan of loud music and harbours an insatiable love for travel.

Recent articles by Liz Tay

RFID testbed could lower manufacture costs

RFID testbed could lower manufacture costs

U.S. researchers have designed a radio frequency identification (RFID) testbed for the rapid evaluation of new RFID tag prototypes.
Liz Tay May 8 2008 12:22PM Hardware
Spintronics professor wins grant, discusses technology

Spintronics professor wins grant, discusses technology

The U.S. Department of Defense has invested half a million dollars in a grant that aims to further the emerging field of quantum spin-based electronics.
Liz Tay May 7 2008 4:38PM Hardware
Dell’s building-block approach to virtualisation needs software support

Dell’s building-block approach to virtualisation needs software support

Dell has launched two new servers that have been designed to simplify virtualisation.
Liz Tay May 7 2008 12:01AM Hardware
Melting microchip defects may overcome manufacturing limitations

Melting microchip defects may overcome manufacturing limitations

A new method for fixing defects on microchips could extend Moore’s Law, leading to smaller, more powerful chips.
Liz Tay May 6 2008 5:32PM Hardware
Data centres need green marketing hype, vendor says

Data centres need green marketing hype, vendor says

Green marketing hype may be necessary to encourage quality engineering, data centre product vendor Rittal speculates.
Liz Tay May 6 2008 11:39AM Storage
Software doubles P2P file sharing speeds

Software doubles P2P file sharing speeds

Researchers have developed file sharing software that doubles peer-to-peer (P2P) transfer speeds by identifying nearby computers.
Liz Tay May 5 2008 3:40PM Software
Out-of-the-box architecture needs no code cutting

Out-of-the-box architecture needs no code cutting

Information Gateways and Information Builders have partnered to bring out-of-the-box managed file transfer architecture to Australian enterprises.
Liz Tay May 5 2008 12:40PM Storage
Eight Mile data centre anticipates storage shortage

Eight Mile data centre anticipates storage shortage

Australian systems availability company Interactive has launched a data centre and recovery facility in Brisbane’s Eight Mile Plains Technology Park to address what it has called a “chronic shortage” of data centre space in Australia.
Liz Tay May 5 2008 12:37PM Storage
Telstra and Austrade partner to bring local SMBs to China

Telstra and Austrade partner to bring local SMBs to China

Telstra and Austrade have jointly launched a new program to support small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) looking to trade in China.
Liz Tay May 2 2008 4:25PM Strategy
Microscopic nanoassembler to build future nano machines

Microscopic nanoassembler to build future nano machines

Researchers have developed a prototype of a microscopic device that can construct nano machines.
Liz Tay May 2 2008 4:02PM Hardware
Researchers create nanowires that grow on trees

Researchers create nanowires that grow on trees

Nanowires that grow from long, twisting tree trunks could yield a new breed of nanomaterials, scientists say.
Liz Tay May 2 2008 2:01PM Hardware
Wireless payment system builds on Windows Mobile success

Wireless payment system builds on Windows Mobile success

Building its mobile payment software on the Windows Mobile operating system may have left manufacturing giants like Nokia out of play, but Mint Wireless is content with servicing what it views as a lion’s share of the smartphone market.
Liz Tay May 1 2008 3:07PM Software
Recruiters expect temporary slowdown in IT vacancies

Recruiters expect temporary slowdown in IT vacancies

The global economic slowdown might be softening the IT recruitment landscape, recruiters say, but the Australian skills shortage is far from over.
Liz Tay Apr 30 2008 3:42PM Training & Development
Three-dimensional PDFs for Adobe Acrobat 8.0 and above

Three-dimensional PDFs for Adobe Acrobat 8.0 and above

A new software technique has been developed to allow interactive, three-dimensional visualisations to be embedded into Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
Liz Tay Apr 29 2008 3:32PM Software
Nominations open for OSCON Open Source Awards

Nominations open for OSCON Open Source Awards

In the lead up to the tenth annual OSCON Open Source convention, organisers at O’Reilly and Google are welcoming nominations for their jointly hosted Open Source Awards.
Liz Tay Apr 29 2008 11:01AM Software
University of Ballarat touts Nortel network upgrade

University of Ballarat touts Nortel network upgrade

To support increasing staff and student demands for high-bandwidth applications like IP telephony and videoconferencing, the University of Ballarat has increased the capacity of its Nortel data network tenfold.
Liz Tay Apr 28 2008 4:17PM Networking
Online study suggests new genre of search engine queries

Online study suggests new genre of search engine queries

An academic analysis of users of Yahoo Answers has led to speculations of a new genre of online questions that are more tailored to social forums than traditional search tools.
Liz Tay Apr 28 2008 3:38PM Software
Teradata announces new data warehousing platforms for enterprises

Teradata announces new data warehousing platforms for enterprises

Teradata has announced a new family of enterprise data warehousing platforms that are based on the latest version of its database engine.
Liz Tay Apr 28 2008 11:45AM Storage
Protecting human values from Human-Computer Interaction

Protecting human values from Human-Computer Interaction

These days, it is nigh on impossible to stop the infiltration of technology into our lives. Business communications are conducted via phone or e-mail. Information is searched for and obtained online. Even our kitchens are getting smarter, with Internet-enabled fridges opening doors to food for both the body and mind.
Liz Tay Apr 24 2008 4:25PM Software
Self-assembling ‘perfect mirrors’ could pave the way for optical computers

Self-assembling ‘perfect mirrors’ could pave the way for optical computers

A newly-developed method for the manufacture of diamond-like crystals could yield “perfect mirrors” that vastly improve optical technologies, paving the way for future sensor technology, optical computers, and circuits that use light instead of electronic signals to process information.
Liz Tay Apr 24 2008 11:51AM Hardware

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