IBM has released a new version of its Lotus Expeditor software, designed to build applications and mashups that move freely from the desktop to mobile platforms.
Execs say they're happy with Sun Microsystems' performance in Australia, but much of that can still be attributed to a single customer -- Telstra.
SAP's acquisition of Business Objects is unlikely to cause the company's existing customers to rush out and add business intelligence applications.
Electricity company Macquarie Energy has managed to slash its purchases approval process from a fortnight to a day after developing a BlackBerry-based application to integrate into its existing SAP workflow.
Worried about the impact your technology use is having on the environment? A development project underway at Intel might help salve your conscience whilst also giving you another gadget to add to your arsenal.
NAB is planning an upgrade to its Internet banking platform that will include targeted cross-selling of products to users of the service.
Skype is shaking off its consumer shackles and finding favour with enterprises, with almost one-third of its customers using its telephony software for business.
The search giant has committed to becoming more environmentally friendly and has enlisted the help of a green group to meet its target.
BMC has set its sights on the mid-market, however, commentators have questioned whether the software maker is up to the challenge.
The latest revision of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is about to become official, but even its most vocal proponents can't agree on just how long it will be before the latest version of the increasingly popular services management approach makes a real impact on businesses. Angus Kidman reports.
Intel's announcements at its 2007 Developer Forum in San Francisco centred around the availability of its Penryn processors later this year and future plans for its Nehalem microarchitecture, but CEO Paul Otellini also used the opening keynote to show off some cool prototypes and other fancy equipment.
Google is used to sifting through huge amounts of information to generate its search results, but a 12 gigabyte database proved something more of a challenge for its own financial management and planning systems.
Working out an IT governance scheme when you have 600,000 users in place is a challenge, but stricter project management has been so successful for the Department of Education in Victoria that the government agency is now adopting the same methodology even for non-IT projects.
New designs for dual-screen PDAs could stimulate the increasingly moribund market for handhelds.
Australian banks are lagging well behind world standards when it comes to using customer relationship management (CRM) technologies, and recent attempts to use CRM as a cost-cutting exercise may be doomed to failure, according to industry experts.
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New designs for dual-screen PDAs could stimulate the increasingly moribund market for handhelds.
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Microsoft has used its Tech Ed conference for its first Australian public showing of its Xbox Live Internet gaming service, but the launch hasn't been without its glitches.
The components that make up a modern datacentre often look disturbingly like commodity items: a server here, a rack there, spaghetti tangles of cable everywhere. But there's one item that is still something of a rarity -- and no, I'm not talking about the expertise needed to run it.
The ever-decreasing cost of storage might look like a useful development for the cash-strapped IT manager, but in fact the falling bucks per gigabyte figure can carry a hidden sting in the tail.
Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.
When developing a data warehouse, you effectively face three choices: expensive, ridiculously expensive, or ludicrously expensive.
Google's plans for greener datacentres are being promoted with great fervour, but its calls for greater environmental accountability have some definite limitations.
In the 21st century, if we don't like our political leaders, we endlessly whine about them on blogs. In the Czech Republic, historically a simpler solution was frequently used: throw the offending individuals out the window. Storage managers can learn something from this.
Is the world going to collapse if we own up to the fact that some Internet-based applications are a huge pain? I doubt it, but not everyone seems to agree.
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