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    SAP co-CEO, Leo Apotheker, has hit back at criticism of the German business software giant's plans to change its support offering and increase prices.

  • TechOne beats Civica to council job

    Business software vendor TechnologyOne has scored a deal with Wangaratta city council worth more than AU$1.1 million.

  • Microsoft, Icahn join forces for Yahoo takeover

    Investor activist Carl Icahn and Microsoft on Monday asked Yahoo investors to oust Yahoo's board and in its place elect Icahn's dissident slate, potentially paving the way for a purchase of the internet company in its entirety or just its search assets.

  • Google feels the Force with Salesforce deal

    Today Salesforce.com announced a "global strategic alliance" (also known as a partnership) with Google, introducing a new integration point, Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs.

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    The Federal Treasury has issued a tender seeking privacy consultancy services for the government's Special Business Reporting initiative, a scheme to simplify regulated reporting processes for Australian businesses.

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    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • ERP upgrade gives new drive to CS Energy

    CS Energy's ERP upgrade -- which was rolled out early this year -- has enabled it to develop a more efficient internal system for staff training and knowledge transfer.

  • SAP and on-demand: 'The switch is tougher'

    Henning Kagermann, chief of SAP, says new competition, fast-moving tech are driving the company to rethink how it builds its software and how to sell it.

  • Microsoft unit key to new strategy

    It used to be a money-losing afterthought. Now the business software unit is playing a key role in Redmond's plans.

  • Top tech jobs for 2006

    After years in the wilderness, the Australian IT industry is again booming as major industries invest heavily in their IT infrastructure. Find out which skills are most in demand and how much remuneration to expect.

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    At Apple's official launch of the iPhone software development kit, Chuck Dietrich, Salesforce.com vice president of mobile, demos new business software on the device. The tools let sales representatives manage applications such as analytics and business intelligence tools on the go. The Apple event took place at company headquarters in California.

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    In this case study, we look at how a software choice went awry, leading to an expensive headache instead of a much-wanted solution.

  • Will Longhorn rope everything together?

    Microsoft is moving ahead with plans to more tightly integrate the development of Windows, Office and its other programs--and much of these efforts are tied to Longhorn.

  • Beta of Office more widely available

    Microsoft makes a "technical refresh" for the second test version of Office 2003 available to all 600,000 beta testers. It was initially available only to a select group.

  • Tech talk

    Technology developments are being foisted on us at every turn, but what do we really get out of them?

  • Microsoft explores self-managing software

    Microsoft will next week take on its key competitors with a new initiative for building self-managing computing systems.

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