Hutchison has received a lashing from members of the Australian Computer Society in a survey released on Friday, but the telco claims the survey was rigged.
US computer giant Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday in the US that it had agreed to buy networking company 3Com for US$2.7 billion (AU$2.9 billion).
HP's pricing has lost it a place on the new "document output device" purchasing contract for the whole of Victorian government.
Australian technology and telecommunications companies are making more use of lobbyists to gain influence in Canberra, the Federal Government's lobbyist register has revealed.
The Australian division of Hewlett-Packard grew its headcount by 22.9 per cent in the year to 31 October 2008, new documents have revealed, even as the company was finalising plans to cut a substantial number of workers from its newly combined operation with EDS.
Over the next two days, 350 of Australia's more senior IT types will gather in Melbourne for Mercury Interactive's annual local user conference.
As anybody who works from home knows, one of the great benefits of telecommuting is that pants are optional. Wear your pyjamas to that teleconference, or attend in your birthday suit if you prefer; nobody will be the wiser.
Shortly after joining the social networking site, I received an e-mail telling me a friend had "written on my wall". Within two clicks I was logged-in and had full access to her Facebook account.
Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.
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Despite having a quality management product on the books at Western Power, no one was using it, causing the energy company to have problems with software development quality.
Recently, HP released its largest ever range of printers at its Go Print 2.0 Conference in Shanghai. ZDNet.com.au's photo gallery gives you the complete range, along with comparisons, prices and release dates.
The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, Ken Russell and Sven Gothel of Sun Microsystems explain how the Nvidia APX2500 chip allows developers to write Java apps on a desktop and run them directly to cell phones. Users will be able to play games and navigate cities in 3D using...
HP Halo takes videoconferencing to the next level and helps make movies such as 'Shrek the Third' come to life.
3's new mobile broadband card is almost a no-brainer: It sprints along on 3's current 3G network and will kick into overdrive following the 3.6Mbps HSDPA network overhaul, slips into notebook ExpessCard and PC Card slots and to top it off, has exceptional pricing plans.
If you find that the price is right and you are only planning on doing menial tasks, you could do a lot worse than the HP ProBook.
HP's 21.5-inch monitor is fairly average for its class however, in the face of its limitations, the price doesn't add up.
Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
Its limitations mean that the only scenario we can recommend the w185 in is where you need a dirt cheap monitor for extremely basic use, like to throw in a server room. Otherwise if you're looking for quality, we'd look elsewhere.
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