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• Surfing the Net at Work Boosts Productivity, Study Says

  BNET - 2009-04-06

  The Find: Think employees who surf the web during work hours are slackers? Not at all, claims new research; they're actually about nine percent more productive than those that don't. The Source: A study out of the University of Melbourne, via the NY Times' Freakonomics blog. ...

  Tags: Facebook, University Of Melbourne, Coker, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jessica Stillman

• Video Streaming Of Lectures Via The Internet: An Experience

  BNET - 2006-08-25

  This paper reports on an investigation into methods of efficiently introducing video streaming into subjects in a large Economics and Commerce faculty. Several software options were investigated before finally settling on RealSystems. The paper provides a brief review of the background of the project followed by a general overview of...

  Tags: University Of Melbourne, Streaming Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Internet, Personal Technology

• The medicine men.

  - 2005-06-06

  Jun 06, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian biotechnology industry is requiring smart technologies. The CSIRO is helping the plant industry with the computing power needed to handle genomic information. The Garvan Institute in Sydney allows its researchers, support staff and...

  Tags: INTERNET, Monash University, NETWORKING, researcher, University of Melbourne

• From union leaders to internet entrepreneurs.

  - 2003-10-21

  Oct 07, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) LookSmart founders, Evan Thornley and Tracey Ellery, were an inspiration to Australian "dotcom" start-ups. The couple met while presidents of their respective student unions, Thornley at the University of Melbourne and Ellery at...

  Tags: INTERNET, LookSmart Ltd., Microsoft Corp., SEARCH, University of Melbourne

• Music copyright battle.

  - 2003-05-19

  May 18, 2003 (The Mercury - ABIX via COMTEX) The University of Tasmania is involved in a case in the Federal Court of Australia over alleged music piracy on the Internet. The university is one of three that have been taken to court by EMI...

  Tags: Australia, EMI Group Plc., INTERNET, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, University of Melbourne

• Rivkin takes stock as jail looms.

  - 2003-05-01

  May 01, 2003 (The Daily Telegraph - ABIX via COMTEX) Flamboyant Sydney-based stockbroker Rene Rivkin, who has been found guilty of insider trading, faces jail. Rivkin claimed, in a document published on his Internet web site, that he has been subjected to a "tall...

  Tags: FINANCE, imprisonment, INTERNET, Investment, stock, syndrome, University of Melbourne

• Nuts and bolts to the rescue as bridges shriek.

  - 2003-04-15

  Apr 14, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed new technology that warns when a structure is under stress. The "smart" nuts and bolts are attached to a sensor that measures physical strain. The information is...

  Tags: AJAX, bolt, INTERNET, University of Melbourne

• Check needed on internet precedents.

  - 2003-04-07

  Apr 07, 2003 (E-Commerce Today - ABIX via COMTEX) Associate Professor Richard Garnett is the co-director of the University of Melbourne's Institute for Comparative & International Law. He believes that the recent decision in the case of Dow Jones & Company vs Gutnick...

  Tags: Dow Jones & Company Inc., E-business/E-commerce, INTERNET, ramification, University of Melbourne

• Critics say laws irrelevant.

  - 2003-03-11

  Mar 11, 2003 (E-Commerce Today - ABIX via COMTEX) Australia's laws restricting Internet gambling have little effect on gamblers. Ian Webster, analyst at ACNielsen.consult, described online gambling as a niche market, with only 300,000 Australians gambling this way. In contrast, online sports betting is...

  Tags: Australia, E-business/E-commerce, INTERNET, University of Melbourne

• New alarms about pesticide resistance. (Technology).

  - 2003-03-01

  A newly discovered gene mutation in fruit flies makes them resistant to a range of commonly available--and chemically unrelated--pesticides. This finding by researchers at the University of Melbourne and at Australia's Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research could ultimately effect broad changes in insect pest control. Researchers...

  Tags: INTERNET, researcher, species, Strategy, University of Melbourne