The nation's largest telco Telstra this week revealed it intended to upgrade its tens of thousands of desktop computers to Windows 7 and would start testing Microsoft's operating system when it was released.
The standards and foundations for nation-wide e-health solutions in Australia have now mainly been completed, according to National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) CEO Peter Fleming, leaving implementation on the agenda for 2009.
How do you manage something that's constantly growing fast, with no end in sight? That's the question many Australian IT managers are currently asking themselves, as they size up their storage and data management strategy going into 2009. Unfortunately, there's no easy answer.
What do you get when you put two artists and a team of clever techies together in a dark room with a AU$1 million equipment budget? ZDNet.com.au visited the University of New South Wales iCinema centre to find out.
It got delayed a few months, but a new, somewhat unusual supercomputer from Sun Microsystems will get formally unveiled next week.
Managing data can be difficult, especially if you have almost 500 terabytes of storage and spend $10,000 a month on backup tapes. This case study looks at how Melbourne IT, one of Australia's biggest web hosting companies, handles storage
Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie have some big shoes to fill. The two execs talk to about how they plan to take over for Gates.
The wonderchip that wasn't serves as a lesson about how complex development plans can go awry in a fast-moving industry.
Trying to take a more active role in open-source programming, Red Hat has created a team of 34 programmers to work on nothing but next-generation software.
Next week will see the launch of the new top-of-the-line chip in a revamp of Sun's core Unix server line, News.com has learned.
At Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco, Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, and Randy Ubillos, chief architect of iMovie, demo updates for the application. One new feature enables users to drag and drop clips more easily and another helps correct jerky camera movements.
What do you get when you give two artists and a team of techies a $1 million budget and put them in a dark room? A T-Visionarium. ZDNet.com.au talks with chief architect of the project that has uncovered some ugly truths about what we love about TV.
Adobe sounds off on transition to Web apps. Adobe chief architect explains Web app importance.
The company releases two new Celeron processors for desktops, as two chipsets wait in the wings.
Memory makers are shifting gears to boost production of a high-speed version of double data rate DRAM, the result of a shift in the Intel product line.
If Philips Semiconductor CEO Scott McGregor is gets his way wireless functionality will be inserted into clothes, cars, books, plane tickets, TVs, keyboards and homes.
Suppose, for a moment, that everything could talk to everything else. Your calendar could get information from and supply data to your documents, or your cell phone, or someone else's calendar and cell phone. Your computer's desktop could tell you that your dry cleaning is ready or your bank account is overdrawn.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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