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  • Google CEO doesn't want US CTO spot

    Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken himself out of the running to be the United States' first chief technology officer.

  • Windows 7 gets mixed reviews

    As developers received their copies of Windows 7 on Tuesday in the US, they offered varied reactions to the Microsoft operating system update.

  • Amazon adds Windows to its cloud

    Amazon has taken its Elastic Compute Cloud service out of beta status and added Windows to Linux and Solaris on its list of supported operating systems.

  • Telstra outlines 21Mbps Next G plans

    Telstra today said it would start upgrading its Next G mobile network to 21Mbps speeds by the end of the year, with Canada-based supplier Sierra Wireless working on the first customer access device.

  • Coders win from Android Market

    Google officially opened its Android Market Wednesday in the US and promised that beginning next year, programmers would get the lion's share of revenue from applications sold on the download site for the company's mobile phone operating system.

Blogs (5)

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Omnidrive website vanishes

    Questions are being raised this morning about whether high-profile Australian Web 2.0 start-up Omnidrive has closed its doors, with the company's site being replaced by what appears to be some form of newsletter service offering financial rewards.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Omnidrive: Alive and kicking?

    Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Will you manage in the exabyte era?

    Mammoth growth in storage volumes is a fact of life, but even so it's helpful to pause occasionally and try and work out whether our information strategies have fallen hopelessly out of step with the pace of technological growth and changes in costs.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Is running Windows XP on ATMs stupid?

    When creating a secure, locked down IT system for something that is directly responsible for handling cash transactions would you choose the most popular, most targeted operating system?

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    What the hell does Securify mean?

    Is securify a real word? Of course not. It is a term I first heard during a press conference when global services firm EDS was announcing its Agility Alliance in Sydney last March.

Features and Case Studies (150)

  • Obama win good news for tech

    In Washington and Silicon Valley circles, betting has already begun on who will be the nation's first chief technology officer.

  • Q&A: Clearswift CTO

    In this interview, Clearswift chief technology officer Alf Pilgrim discusses rising spam volumes, the Australian government's plan to filter the internet, and why IT can't play nanny any more for the business it serves.

  • Virtual desktops, real security

    Virtualised desktop environments, in some cases using Linux, are gaining in popularity as IT administrators realise they can deliver security advantages. We tell the story of one Australian government department and take you through the landscape.

  • Is Microsoft a threat to VMware?

    The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualisation leader VMware.

  • Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

    A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory

Reviews (38)

  • A divide over the future of hard drives

    Heat or dots? The question is dividing the hard drive industry as it prepares for a major product overhaul.

  • Microsoft warns of a score of security holes

    Microsoft released on Tuesday fixes that cover at least 20 Windows flaws, several of which could make versions of the operating system vulnerable to new worms or viruses.

  • Creating a truly 'open' wireless network

    We've come a long way from the days when callers had to go stand next to a window in order to use a mobile phone indoors.

  • Microsoft moves beyond patches

    Conceding that its strategy of patching Windows holes as they emerge has not worked, Microsoft plans next week to outline a new security effort focused on what the company calls "securing the perimeter," a company executive said.

  • Intrusion detection: caught in its own web?

    Intrusion detection appears to have hit the bottom of its hype cycle with a particularly loud thud. Is there value beyond the hot air, and how can you make it work productively?

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