Sydney startup Pearl Communications has used a Myers Briggs personality test to design its anti-spam software, a process the company believes will not only improve its own product but can also improve any software development project.
Optus has appointed a new managing director for its Optus Business division, promoting John Simon as the man to lead its growing services arm.
Educating staff about IT security risks and measures they should take to avoid compromising system integrity is a critical enterprise activity, according to a senior federal government security official.
The company behind Ubuntu Linux is set to unveil ambitious plans to improve collaboration among the Linux community.
More than 150 developers of the recently released Linux distribution Ubuntu are in Sydney working on storming the desktop market.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
It's no secret that shadow communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy didn't have a good day on Wednesday.
While UK businesses worry that Linux lacks the technical support options to make it an enterprise player, Australian businesses believe the open source operating system already enjoys the robust support they need to put it to work.
Simon Jennings talks about the success of the Oxfam water bucket and the group's unusual catalogue which sells everything from camels to desks.
A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications.
Online job search engine Seek is warning users not to fall for a scam that uses a bogus company name called "Plasma Project" and claims to be powered by Seek.
Companies that offer virtualisation software are changing their business models and tweaking their software.
Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up".
A leading analyst house is urging mobile operators to abandon their plans for third-generation (3G) networks.
America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.
Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.
A technology that promises to bridge the worlds of data storage and networking has passed a key point on its path to becoming a usable standard.
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