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  • Can GPS work for your business?

    The GPS system originated as a military application; its business uses now have CIOs interested. How can it can help your business with tracking applications?

  • Employers can check on you via your mobile

    Mobile phones are giving employers new ways to check up on employees in the field--and raising fresh workplace privacy concerns as a result.

  • Smart roads for safer driving

    How much longer will it be before our cars drive us to the office?

  • Avanade and Iridium: A dream team

    Andersen Consulting is in the news a lot lately, and for all the wrong reasons. If Andersen does any IT work for you, you should start looking at your options because quality of service is certainly a question mark in the long term.

  • Study: What drives us to distraction?

    Why do some drivers crash while dialling their mobile phone, and others manoeuvre smoothly while applying lipstick, sending e-mail or fiddling with the radio in stop-and-go traffic?

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  • Photos: Aussie research speeds traffic, finds crims

    At NICTA's recent Techfest conference, researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) get to show off the projects they have been working on all year, including facial recognition tech designed to help catch criminals as well as better algorithms and sensors for traffic control.

  • Wireless: Bigger may not be better

    Find out four tips for making sure your network footprint stays secure as it grows.

  • Mesh: The next step for wireless

    Mesh technology allows new wireless networks to be created, or existing WLANs to be extended, without needing a wired connection to each base station. Additional reading: WLAN Resource Centre

  • Can GPS work for your business?

    The GPS system originated as a military application; its business uses now have CIOs interested. How can it can help your business with tracking applications?

  • Hilton Hotels: Tim Harvey, CIO

    Tim Harvey, CIO of Hilton Hotels, tells of technologies that will turn hotel rooms into "homes away from home".

Reviews (5)

  • OzEmail Metrowide Wireless

    It's not exactly cheap, but if you want wireless broadband on the go -- and critically, if you live in the right bits of the correct cities -- then it's your best current choice.

  • Apple's new UFO-like device lands

    When the first UFO-shaped AirPort Base Station landed in stores, it was part of the wireless networking vanguard.

  • Can GPS work for your business?

    The GPS system originated as a military application; its business uses now have CIOs interested. How can it can help your business with tracking applications?

  • Study: What drives us to distraction?

    Why do some drivers crash while dialling their mobile phone, and others manoeuvre smoothly while applying lipstick, sending e-mail or fiddling with the radio in stop-and-go traffic?

  • Will MPEG-4 Fly?

    A new streaming-media standard promises to unify a fractious market, but inferior quality and bureaucracy may block acceptance.

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