After a swathe of universities announced deals with Microsoft for its free Live@edu hosted email, Monash University has said it will provide the rival Gmail service to its 58,000 students instead.
South Australia's network of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) colleges has revealed itself as the latest education institution to plan a move to hosted email solution for staff and students.
The University of Sydney has decided to move its around 46,000 students over to Microsoft Exchange-based email.
The Australian Catholic University this semester moved to Microsoft's Live@edu web-hosted email system for its around 17,000 students.
Google's Android developer team has started selling the Android Dev Phone 1, the first Android-based device unlocked to allow the use of any SIM card or software.
Could the spread of the cloud force Australian ISPs to step away from usage-based models and finally offer real, unlimited broadband packages with no hard limits? Not very likely.
The world of speculative telecommunications investments has quieted down considerably since the beginning of the decade, when hype-fuelled carriers plunked down billions to reserve the right to carry mobile phone calls, video calls, and massive volumes of spam at high speed using then-fanciful 3G mobile technology.
Google's plans for greener datacentres are being promoted with great fervour, but its calls for greater environmental accountability have some definite limitations.
At yesterday's launch of Google's enterprise search appliance, product manager Kevin Gough argued that Google itself was an essential business tool, since practically no-one could get through the day without conducting at least one search using the popular site.
Will aggregation replace search when it comes to finding useful content on the Web? I reckon so.
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The explosion in drive-by download attacks continues to grow. How has the situation got so dangerous? Are there any "trusted" Web sites left?
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Accounting software is never going to be sexy. We didn't find Quickbooks QBi 2008/2009 sexy, but we did find the latest incarnation of the well known brand to be a great program and a worthy upgrade.
If you're wary of Google knowing everything about your business and your web site, then Google Analytics is not for you. But for most, it's a useful ally in a challenging business climate.
Google has repackaged and enhanced its business-oriented software offerings into a paid-subscription suite known as Google Apps Premier Edition.
The online Google Spreadsheets is free, easy to use, and handy for collaboration, but stick with Excel for complex spreadsheets.
Google Apps for Your Domain lets you brand online services with your own URL, but it doesn't eat the costs of domain registration as Microsoft Office Live does.
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