Rachael Bolton

Ok, ok so we all know censorship is evil

Rachael Bolton

Electronic health is definitely a big one for the government and technology industry this year but there are likely to be some big, fat problems

Rachael Bolton

Perhaps it was the novelty of the experience, but conducting the the first ever interview about Google Wave on the platform with its developers was fun.

Rachael Bolton

Australian privacy laws have not changed substantially in more than 20 years

Chris Jenkins

The pace and scale of political cyber-attacks seems to be increasing, so maybe now is a good time to start thinking about what parts of Australia we don't want connected to the national broadband network

Brian Corrigan

State and federal government bureaucrats held the last of four public consultation forums in Melbourne today as they continue to work towards the creation of a national recycling scheme for computers and televisions.

Chris Jenkins

A couple of events last week showed why technology companies can never afford to sit still.

Ben Woodhead

Move over Matthew Broderick, the UK government's decided it's a smashing idea to recruit a diehard gamer to its atomic weapons division.

Brian Corrigan

When vendors react well to the changing needs of their customers it strengthens the relationship.

Chris Jenkins

Windows 7 is by all accounts a better operating system than the venerable Windows XP or the unloved Windows Vista, but it promises at least one nasty surprise for people that rush to upgrade without reading the instructions

Paul Smith

Midway through writing a story for last Tuesday's Australian Financial Review about the moves by some Aussie retailers to take the plunge back into selling online, I had to check my hairstyle

Brian Corrigan

Three of the world's leading chip makers have reported quarterly financials in the past week

Chris Jenkins

At 104 pages, the federal government's digital economy roadmap is indeed an impressive tome

Ben Woodhead

"We are a company that seeks to do no evil - right, ok, well everybody believes that."

Paul Smith

Social media can be far more powerful than TV or other communications channels to sell the experience of a holiday, but its also a double-edged sword

Brian Corrigan

It is now almost a year since British management guru Sir Peter Gershon completed his review of federal IT spending in Australia

Julian Bajkowski

Just when a Minister of the Crown thought it was safe to release a vague document that flirts with being a digital economy policy, those anti-filtering fanatics have to wreck everything.

Chris Jenkins

If Google is feeling cocky enough to launch its own PC operating system, treading on the toes of mobile carriers will be the least of its worries.

Ben Woodhead

So what's the big news in technology this week? Facebook's founder eats koala, Universal Pictures acquired the film rights to Asteroids and The New York Times is miffed that Sony fictionalised bits of a movie about a blog.

Paul Smith

After years of anticipation that Google would go up against Microsoft on its home turf, the announcement yesterday that it is working on an open source operating system, felt strangely mundane

Brian Corrigan

The PC industry will not be amused if it is forced into a single recycling scheme based on the model proposed by its TV cousins and it isn't difficult to work out why.

Julian Bajkowski

Australia's marathon journey towards creating a national electronic health and medical records scheme took a small but important step towards becoming a reality last week.

Chris Jenkins

Last week, news surfaced that Cisco is playing with the idea of taking at tilt at Microsoft's $US60 billion Office cash cow

Ben Woodhead

I don't know what it is about technology fads that sends some in the media into such paroxysms of stupidity.

Paul Smith

Many Australians don't like the idea that we could soon be held up as one of the internet bad guys.

Julian Bajkowski

Just a year ago, it was unthinkable that one of the most openly belligerent companies in Australia would be looking to strike a peace deal with unions to secure certainty around its workforce.

Chris Jenkins

If there's one problem the nation's technology services companies are having at the moment, it's that customers are taking a long time to make up their minds

Julian Bajkowski

Strutting his stuff for the cameras, the cop brandished a very bright yellow case, the sort of vessel used on shows like CSI to create the impression that something profoundly technical is going on.

Chris Jenkins

Consolidation in the telecoms equipment space is set to continue, with Nortel deciding to hawk itself in pieces rather than fight back from bankruptcy.

Paul Smith

Wow, I thought iTunes was expensive, but $US80,000 per song?