Recent surveys by technology vendor find that that business sentiment towards Australia as an innovation leader is low

Audiovisual and ICT solution provider, Evidence Technology, has appointed Dennis Wickstead as its latest business development manager NZ.

Hardware distributor, Simms International, has signed an agreement with security vendor, IronKey.

UK-based software vendor, Certero, has expanded to Australia.

The Victorian State Government has unveiled a program where 500 iPads will be delivered to a number of hospitals in the state, as the Brumby Labor government continues to show a great deal of interest in the Apple platform.

ARN's Matthew Sainsbury is in Washington, courtesy of Microsoft, for the company's World Partner Conference 2010. His reports plus those for IDG's American staff and slideshows are all part of this ARN special coverage of the conference.

Preferring to err on the side of caution, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted 10-1 to require cell phone makers to post notices in their stores with details on the level of radiation each model emits.

The 10-year Interphone study of the health effects of mobile-phone use has found no increased risk of two types of brain tumors. Although some of the data shows an increased risk for some mobile-phone users, the possibility of errors prevents researchers from drawing any hard conclusions, the study said.

When the Kinect for Xbox 360 was released in late 2010, it created a buzz in the video gaming industry that had not been seen in many years. A webcam-style add-on peripheral for Microsoft’s video game console, the Kinect eliminated the need for a traditional control pad and instead allows the user to interact with video games through body gestures and voice commands. While Kinect was a success, selling an excess of 10 million units as of March, it was still just a video game accessory that was locked to the Xbox 360 platform and its implementation did not go further than video games.