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  • Hard drives, telephoto lenses meet mobile phones

    Samsung has unfurled a mobile phone with a 1-megapixel camera, two colour screens and a 1.5-gigabyte, 1-inch hard disk drive. It can be used to play MP3 files or display pictures or shoot videos.

  • Sun: US recession would help open source

    Sun executives claim that open source will benefit as US consumer spending grinds to a halt, and that its revenues are not negatively impacted by its development of "free" software.

  • Gartner: 'Wake up IT, you work in business'

    To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.

  • 2007: How was it for outsourcing?

    Government continues to shun colossal outsourcing contracts in favour of selective sourcing, while businesses display growing confidence in software-as-a-service -- however sustained skills shortages have plagued deployments, sparking interest in offshore options.

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • Budget: No votes in technology?

    The Labor Party has warned that the federal government has no plans in place to fix telecommunication services in regional communities, despite its commitment of AU$163.1 million in the federal budget.

  • Comms players told to follow alcohol industry's lead

    If regulators have their way, the telecommunications industry will soon be telling those of us who use our phone services to excess "you've had enough".

  • Stories that shaped 2006

    Acquisitions and mergers by the industry's US powerbrokers continued at pace throughout 2006, but locally, offshoring and fibre-optic broadband networks provided the biggest talking points.

  • Budget elevates mobile industry importance, but ignores IT

    The latest Australian Federal Budget, announced last night by Treasurer Peter Costello, has elevated the importance of the mobile phone industry in the political arena, while promising little for the IT industry as a whole.

  • Sun unveils first real-time Java implementation

    The first version of Java for delay-sensitive applications is now available, but one of its chief engineers admits that it's not the 'silver bullet' for real-time systems

  • Howard defends scrapping digital auction

    Prime Minister John Howard has defended his government's decision to cancel a scheduled auction of datacasting transmitter licences which, in the end, attracted only one bidder.

  • Telstra launches broadband security surveillance

    Telstra has launched a service called Business Secure, which provides subscribers with alerts and a video feed of their property to their mobile phone or over the Internet.

  • Alcatel, Lucent agree US$33 billion merger

    French telecoms technology provider Alcatel and US equipment firm Lucent Technologies on Sunday announced a merger agreement, creating a US$33 billion dollar giant in global telecommunications.

  • Feds study voice authentication

    The federal government is commissioning a trial of voice authentication technology to see whether it is mature enough for use by its agencies.

  • Sun pushes Java brand harder--but uphill

    It may not rise to the popularity of "Antiques Roadshow," but Sun Microsystems is betting a new TV show will help boost recognition of its Java software.

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