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  • OLPC's Bitfrost: Privacy disaster, or security haven?

    Faced with a young, tech-inexperienced user base, the One Laptop Per Child foundation set out to build an easy to use security system, Bitfrost but did it create a privacy threat that tracks users' identity instead?

  • 'Lighter' Norton 360 V2.0 takes aim at the Web

    "Lighter" is the key word Symantec hopes customers will feel when installing Norton 360 version 2.0, which is the company's security and backup system for small business and home users that was launched today.

  • EMC hawks subscription backup service

    EMC has launched a new strategy and a product for businesses looking to make use of online storage and backup -- the company also plans to roll out the service in Australia the second of this year.

  • Apple reveals Leopard official launch date

    After much speculation, Apple has confirmed that the next version of its Mac OS X operating system, Leopard, will hit stores on Friday, 26 October, at 6 pm.

  • Symantec woos SMBs with online backup

    Symantec took a step towards turning itself into a provider of hosted services for small- and medium-sized businesses this week when it started beta testing an online backup service in the US.

Blogs (4)

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Memory Box splits up backup headaches

    South Australian distributed backup start-up Memory Box splits up users' data and spreads it in encrypted form across many customers' PCs. But can the company build trust amongst customers who could be worried about their data being stored on other people's hard drives?

  • Heads in the cloud

    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.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Fancy uploading a terabyte of data?

    What would you do if you ran an online backup service that offered unlimited storage, and a few dozen of your customers ended up storing more than a terabyte of data each?

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Has Symantec learnt from its Norton 360 mistakes?

    Today, Symantec released Norton 360 Version 2.0, but I wonder whether the security giant has learned from its past mistakes?

Features and Case Studies (5)

  • Windows Phone: Everything you need to know

    After months and months of waiting, Microsoft has finally kicked its latest mobile operating system out of the nest to see if it can fend for itself in the big, bad world of smartphone rivalries. Alongside the OS itself, Microsoft also rolled out a bunch of new web-based services as well.

  • Parks Victoria puts 6TB backup on-demand

    Realising it could take three months to restore critical servers after a disaster prompted Parks Victoria to become one of the first large organisations in Australia to adopt an on-demand model for its backup and disaster recovery

  • Taming the alpha mail

    The actual administration of e-mail -- getting it into your company, filtering it, distributing it, providing mobile access to it, archiving it, backing it up, undeleting it -- can be an extremely time-consuming, bothersome process.

  • Best IT solutions for a small business upgrade

    IT pros who manage small business networks have to come up with unique solutions, such as deciding whether Linux is a viable solution and which collaboration software is better.

  • Linux racks up corporate credentials

    Ahead of LinuxWorld next week, IBM and HP announce more big corporate customers for the relatively young operating system.

Reviews (6)

  • Lotus Foundations Start

    Lotus Foundations is a great solution for a wide range of businesses because it takes away the need for an on-site IT guru, and minimises management overheads so staff can get on with core business activities.

  • Dell Vostro 1510

    The Dell Vostro range, which comes in both notebook and desktop form factors, is designed for the small business market. We found the Vostro 1510 to have good performance for a mid-range notebook but performance comes at the expense of battery life.

  • OLPC XO

    The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is unique as the XO laptop it distributes. While the XO is not commercially available, our review provides an insight into what can be achieved in a laptop designed for children at a very low cost.

  • What was that again? 3 backup packages tested

    It's official: backup software packages have the longest product names in the business. We evaluate three leading packages to find out which suits the medium-sized business.

  • Jobs: Jaguar, new iPods, new iMac and. . . Windows?

    As the Mac faithful gather in New York, Apple CEO Steve Jobs rallies to the defense of the Mac OS X operating system and trots out new hardware, including a bigger iMac and iPods for Windows.

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