Industry minister Kim Carr has launched Australia's most powerful computer in Canberra, ushering in a new era for scientific research.
IT services company Brennan IT has bought fellow services provider S Central in an effort to increase its scale.
National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), part of the Australian National University (ANU), is working towards a contract with the Federal Government that will see $50 million spent on a new datacentre and supercomputer by 2012.
Telecom New Zealand has reported a 43.9 per cent fall in full year net profit to NZ$398 million (AU$324.08 million), continuing a recent downward trend.
Defence Minister John Faulkner has committed up to $500 million to fixing the department's ongoing payroll and human resource management issues.
The team at Brisbane-based Social Horizon has come up with aMAP.to, which they believe is the world's first service that shortens Google Maps URLs down to something manageable.
SMS may have turned into a cash cow for the world's telcos, but Twitter's growing popularity gives customers an easier, cheaper option that may force carriers to come to the party or risk missing out.
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Apple's new eight-core Mac Pro demonstrates marked improvements over the older model in high-intensity digital media and multitasking scenarios.
It's a little slimmer and it has loads of storage, but Nokia's latest flagship model has little to justify its top-shelf price tag.
The 3Com OfficeConnect Gigabit Switch 5 is a tiny unit that compares well to the competition on price and power consumption.
If data security is paramount, the DataTraveler BlackBox is the USB flash drive of choice, despite its relatively high cost.
The Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive is an attractive drive with a decent price. Its size makes it great for travel, but we can't recommend it due to its lack of performance.
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