Trials carried out on the technology for Victoria's massive smart meter roll-out failed to provide "reasonable assurance" on its viability, according to the Victorian Auditor-General in a report slamming the project.
Adobe has announced overnight that it will cut 680 jobs, approximately 9 per cent of its global workforce.
Victorian energy company SP AusNet announced yesterday that it had chosen Motorola to build a WiMax network to connect the smart meters it is rolling out to 680,000 customers.
Victorian shared services provider CenITex has gone to market for a new chief operating officer to fill Thana Velummylum's former role.
CenITex chief operating officer Thana Velummylum had previously held a contract worth $215,620 for five and a half months' work with the Victorian IT shared services agency, government contract documents have revealed.
Like the vast majority of people holding up the bottom end of the Australian economic pyramid, I always get a vicarious thrill out of reading the BRW Rich 200 List and finding out just how much money the people at the pointy end are hoarding.
In the everlasting war to win your dollar, Optus has again recalculated its capped contract plans, calling these new plans Monster Caps. But as with the announcement of its prepaid broadband plans late in 2008, the devil is in the details, or monster as the case may be.
We give you a sneak peek at the upcoming beta of Windows 7 before Microsoft unveils the software to the public later this month.
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Hackers have hit back against major security patches issued by the likes of Microsoft, with a marked rise in self-installing robot programs that allow an unauthorised user to control a computer remotely.
Collaboration, records management, and workflow are just some of the features in current electronic document management software. We examine your options.
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The 2209WA is a monitor with very few flaws. While we'd love to see 1:1 scaling, and the inset screen may cause some users grief, we wouldn't mind two of these sitting on our desk. This is the best 22-inch monitor we've seen.
ViewSonic's latest is a great idea, hampered by not so great execution.
Apple's smaller-scale iMac remains our favourite all-in-one. And while its looks, its ease of use, and its performance are all selling points, Windows PCs are starting to catch up (at least with the latter).
Lenovo has continued the ThinkPad tradition of no-nonsense business laptops with the SL500, which provides good value and is powered by the Intel Centrino 2 architecture, and comes loaded with Windows Vista Business.
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