It's not really a mid-life crisis, not really. But eighteen months after Vista appeared - and eighteen months before Windows 7 - Vista has bought a metaphoric red sports car and a new pair of tight jeans, and is getting ready to go on the pull.
A group of Australian students have just been crowned winners of the Imagine Cup, a global competition in software design.
In the future, your network will help you decided between a career as a fashion model or a doctor, and tell you to lay off the sugary snacks, according to Intel.
Veteran tech entrepreneur Bob Bickel has let out a whisper of his new venture, Ringside Networks, which will aim to make social networking applications work outside the network.
Australian athletes' blogs will not be censored during the Beijing Olympics, according to the Australian Olympic Committee president, but the International Olympic Committee is preventing them from profiting from the games' name.
Earlier this month, Telstra put out a press release trumpeting that it's come up with a new phone coaching service to help people who are "bamboozled" by their mobiles. Another excellent example of wrongheaded thinking from the mobile industry.
At some stage, many people will find themselves asking why they left that great little job to take a turn in the management ranks. Let's take a few minutes to consider how you can avoid becoming a member of this group.
It's easy for IT managers to get bogged down in day-to-day activities and lose sight of the bigger picture of leading their staff. Whether you're a seasoned pro, or new to the game, the following tips will help you effectively manage your team.
Eric Benhamou, former chief executive of both 3Com and Palm, has just joined the board of Finjan and taken a minority stake in the web security company through his venture capital fund, Benhamou Global Ventures.
You're fired! This succinct phrase strikes more fear into the heart of the working man or woman than any other. John McKee, a certified business and executive coach, gives us the top 10 self-destructive workplace habits sure to endanger ones longevity on the job.
Scott McNealy sees glory days ahead for new CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Are they cut from the same cloth?
Fonality's trixbox is an ISDN and traditional POTS-style telephony system based on the open source Asterisk software, and comes with dedicated hardware eliminating compatibility issues. We found trixbox to be competitively priced and easy to set up.
VoIP company takes page from parent eBay, offering a business-rating directory and a service linking advice givers and seekers.
The 'Swiss-army' 5140 sports a compass, torch, thermometer and is shock/water-resistant. Squeeze in a fitness coach and Nokia has a great phone for those with active lifestyles.
VoIP and GPRS technology enable the 5140 to act like a walkie-talkie, with the ability to automatically broadcast your voice to many handsets at once.
An Australian company has underlined the potential of well-proven technologies such as short-messaging services to deliver m-commerce applications, launching two new products based on SMS.
Apple drops iPhone NDA
A little more than six months after Apple initially offered its software development kit for the iPhone, the c… Watch it now
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
Do you love or hate Microsoft's Seinfeld ads?
Broadband speedtest
How fast is your Internet connection?
Calculate the speed here.
Superguide: Printers -- all you need to know
Looking to buy a printer? Our superguide rates the latest printers and shines a light into the industry.
Click here for more.
Storage and server superguide
Over the last decade the art of maintaining the datacentre of a large organisation has evolved into an art form.
Click here for more.