Two IT-themed projects shared the $25,000 runners-up award in the Australian National University’s Innovation ANU program – a staged business and commercialization development program for ANU staff and students. The winner of the Innovation ANU was a start-up pharmaceutical company called Cardishield, which is re-developing an existing drug for treating heart attacks.

The program also provided a sneak peek at Australia’s first local challenger to the very popular and lucrative online photo sharing sites like Flickr and Photobucket. Innovation ANU provided participants with seminars and workshops on commercialization and business planning, mentoring and guidance from professionals, and opportunities to collaborate with in an interdisciplinary team. The competition was designed to “transform the talent, creativity, and energy into tomorrow’s leading business and commercialization ideas with two top proposals receiving $25,000 financial, legal and patent advice from top local firms.

Photos Inkorporated and One Corp were announced joint runners-up at an awards ceremony dinner at ANU in Canberra. Photos Inkorporated will be a freely participatory community photo-sharing Web site deriving revenue from subscriptions, printing, photo storage, stock photo sales, and advertising. The One Corp project is a company proposing a revolutionary concept of providing a free online system that instantly retrieves and organizes consumers’ transaction records.

As a communist state, the Chinese people are often denied freedoms that other democratic countries can take for granted.

The internet is a buzzing outlet for freedom of speech, and is a pinnacle of the free world. The Chinese administration has recognised the internet as a threat to their communist rule.

Many sites have been blocked, like those that discuss freedom of speech, and promote human rights.

The reason for withholding access to the BBC’s China site is probably because the administration controls many news sources within China and they don’t want the news from foreign democratic states influencing the Chinese citizens.

It is not a coincidence that this has happened just before they host the Olympics, it seems the almighty Chinese government are people pleasing on a socio-economic level.

The Large Hadron Collider located on the French-Swiss border is the world’s largest scientific experiment.

Scientists working for CERN, the corporation undertaking this experiment have managed to cool the apparatus near absolute zero.

The aim of the experiment is to simulate and recreate the conditions of deep space, i.e. at the moment of creation.

The reason for the extremely low temperatures is that, in deep space it is obviously very cold, so to get an accurate simulation, these conditions need to be recreated.

The machine will shortly begin firing particles at close to the speed of light, when these particles collide, a new particle should be created, and this will be called the ‘God particle’.

The problem is, scientists are unsure how this particle will behave. Some say it will create a black hole!!

Firefox 3 was released recently, after vigorous testing, me and my colleagues have decided IT’S BRILLIANT!

It has taken 36 months to develop, and for a non-profit organisation, that is rather impressive.

Firefox 3 Boasts, 3 times faster page loading, compared to Firefox 2 and 7 times faster than Microsoft IE.

If we put this into perspective, Microsoft is a world leader, with Billions of Dollars of capital to invest in new products and Mozilla is a small non-profit organisation.

It just goes to show that monopolies can be beaten.

First, there was the cardboard box in the kitchenette for old cans and bottles. Then, the plastic bin under everyone’s desk for old print jobs and newspapers. Will the next trend in office recycling be a Dumpster for old computers?

A growing movement to recycle PCs and other electronics has the European Parliament examining ways to keep those machines from ending up in landfills and posing pollution threats.

Computer makers worry that government solutions focused on redesign, recycling and disposal will raise the expense of doing business. This will inevitably lead to an increase in the price tags of their products at a time when they can ill afford such costly changes.

Regardless of how it gets done, some form of wide scale recycling appears inevitable. The computer industry acknowledges that its products are becoming obsolete faster than it is putting new machines on the market. Leading businessess and consumers store tons of aging equipment until agreement can be reached on a way to dispose of them without doing grave harm to the world’s environment.