At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to disabuse the thousands of IT executives attending the conference of two notions: Windows software is hopelessly insecure and Linux offers a better TCO (total cost of ownership) than Windows.
Whether you use Linux for recreational purposes or are a full-time professional software developer, the third national Linux conference will open its doors in Queensland next month, and if its two Aussie predecessors are anything to go by you’ll leave raving about it.
IT managers must change how they report their operations if they want to be seen as successful by the businesses of the future, industry professionals heard yesterday.
A national event aimed at stamping out so-called Nigerian scams will be held in Queensland, Detective Inspector Brian Hay, who heads up the Queensland Police Corporate Crime Investigation Group, said.
Technology vendors have taken a verbal hammering from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) after one of its top procurement chiefs blamed the industry for most IT project failures.
Intel's CEO addresses execution problems, looks ahead to WiMax explosion.
Microsoft's CEO points to his company's security advantages and dominance over open-source options.
When Microsoft releases its SQL Server 2005 database on Nov. 7, it will have been five years since the last version debuted. If Windows Vista arrives as scheduled next fall, it too will follow its predecessor by five years.
Is the "Semantic Web" the new Internet, or a complex technology in search of a problem to solve? Tim Berners-Lee and company make a pitch for new ways to get the most out of the Internet.
This year alone, cyberattacks have shut down an ATM network, slowed the railroads, cancelled airline flights, and forced a nuclear power plant offline. If current trends continue, the cybersecurity situation will worsen exponentially.
IBM and Infineon will jointly present a paper this week that demonstrates how MRAM, one of the leading candidates to replace flash memory in mobile phones, could be ready for commercial production by 2005.
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