You might have become used to the idea that what you see on Twitter is at least potentially the same as every other Twitter user following the same people and entering the same search terms. But that's about to change.

HP has revealed the timetable for the release of webOS under an open source licence. Open webOS 1.0 is scheduled to appear in September.

"Patriotism," said Oscar Wilde, "is the last refuge of the scoundrel," but it seems there may be no refuge for personal or corporate data from the reach of the US Patriot Act: even when the data are held in Australia.

Telstra's major competitors, from Optus downwards have been unanimous in calling on the ACCC to regulate Telstra's wholesale ADSL service.

Surveys by a major analyst firm reveals that Apple products are becoming common in the workplace, and that enterprises plan to buy more Macs.

A company named Zinstall is attempting to plug a product by the same name which is used for PC migrations in businesses. But in the accompanying document, which provides details of the process, there are surprising lacunae.

As mobile applications running under proprietary platforms - iOS, Android, Windows, etc - proliferate the World Wide Web community has a vision to build equivalent functionality into the browser specifications so that application writers will have access to a much wider community without 'lock in' to any one platform.

The Russians launched its Progress spacecraft to the International Space Station on Wednesday January 25, 2012 (local time at the Kazakhstan launch site), with about 2.9 tons of supplies and equipment onboard for the ISS Expedition 30 crew.

If there’s a new or rehashed iPhone rumour, it must surely be a day of the week ending in Y, with the latest suggesting a 4-inch screen will finally arrive, a new design will also come (but no teardrop shape), and perhaps a restoration of the iPhone launch to the US summer timeframe.

Following the 'liberation' of source code for the 2006 versions of many of its products, Symantec initially indicated that the latest versions were so different that there wasn't a problem.  Perhaps that wasn't true of pcAnywhere.