Government and information technology industry representatives on Tuesday discussed how to make the public comfortable with the increasingly sophisticated ways the government collects identifiable information.

TELSTRA has awarded Accenture a five-year, multimillion dollar outsourcing contract for its transformation project.

THE Qantas plane involved in a mid-air incident had computer "irregularities'', air safety investigators say.

Affiliate partnerships with the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3 will put download links next to participating music videos, with more partners on the way.

A growing number of sites feature content from the music label; in the case of recently relaunched social-media site Kiwibox, it's music videos.

The economy was front and center for the presidential candidates, and former eBay chief Meg Whitman gets a name-check. Katie Couric and the CBS News political team offer a recap.

Suffice it to say that the ad network's "Glam Luxury" division, which targets high-end audiences, is launching at an awkward time for the global economy.

College student accused of hacking into vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account was indicted Tuesday and has turned himself in to authorities.

Hitachi has launched a trial of a "similar image search service" called GazoPa as an invitation-only beta.

Though fewer servers were sold, the research firm points to the trend in virtualization and consolidation.