Ahead of this month's ISO decision in Geneva on the status of the software giant's contentious Office Open XML format, a visiting executive from Microsoft has said its persistence with the format has been spurred on by customer demand.
Unless one side or another decides to appeal, Friday's decision could mark the final chapter in a case once said to be a definitive one for antitrust law in the 21st century.
Why are Web sites still so hard to use some six years after the Internet burst into our lives? According to many design veterans a variety of factors--some obvious, some not--contribute to the current state of usability hell.
Guidelines on the corporate governance of ICT developed by Standards Australia have been adopted as an international standard by the ISO (International Standards Organisation).
Observers have said the death of HD DVD will have little impact on the Australian business market after Toshiba's announcement to end production of the format, concluding a two year battle between Toshiba and rival Sony, the chief backer of the Blu-ray format.
People were apparently switching their brains off before joining the 3G iPhone queues, so it's somewhat surprising that considering an appropriate amount of storage was quite a high priority for many buyers.
Although 3G phones have been around for years, it appears the iPhone 3G has successfully rewritten the rules of competition in Australia's mobile sector whetting the nation's appetite for data.
Everything from cleaning to IT development work is outsourced by governments these days, but should security clearance processes, which dictate what access a person has to government information systems, be included in that bundle?
Labor's policy of socialised broadband has certainly proved much harder than the party believed it would be back when it was in Opposition, but it is Telstra that stands to lose the most from the NBN - and that applies whether it loses the NBN contract or wins it.
While there's not much that's more fun than stirring up Linux and Windows zealots into a frenzy of spite against each other, we thankfully finally seem to be approaching a more measured universe in which technology choices can be made based on suitability rather than preconception.
A Sydney Web-based business has been stripped of its registered domain name with only 24 hours notice by an administrative body, after it was found to have "wrongly lapsed" from its original owner early last year.
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.
It wasn't all smooth sailing when Woolworths upgraded to SAP's BI 7.0 recently, but as the retail chain put it: "An ASX Top 10 company cannot consolidate their results on an Excel spreadsheet".
CIO's who change organisations often boast the same accomplishments: closer integration with the customer, becoming one with the business, becoming more agile and responsive, etc. We take a look at the how, and the why.
Wotif is one of the most popular online marketplaces for last-minute hotel accommodation in Australia and New Zealand. In this interview, the company's CIO Paul Young talks about some of the important technical and business decisions he has made in order to successfully manage the infrastructure of a rapidly growing Web 2.0 company.
The chipmaker's vPro PC management technology is set to make its debut in notebooks over the next few months.
RMIT Test Lab finally got its hands on some of the most powerful business PCs on the market. So it is with an eagerness bordering on unadulterated glee that Matt Tett puts these racehorses through their paces.
The HP d530's trump card is its compact yet largely practical design. However, its limited upgrading and expansion options may result in higher costs over the long term.
Trying to find a path through the music copy and share debate is a continuing battle, but should it be?
There's no such thing as an average server, but for just about all your everyday computing needs one of these Intel Xeon-based servers is likely to do the trick.
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