Microsoft has released a beta of Office 2010 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The beta integrates social network LinkedIn with Outlook, offers a stripped back Excel for browser editing, and video editing tools for PowerPoint.
One.Tel founder Jodee Rich this week said the "dark" years leading up to Wednesday's victory in one of NSW's largest ever civil cases had made him a stronger man.
LinkedIn has announced Clifford Rosenberg as the company's managing director for Australia and New Zealand.
Contrary to an earlier ZDNet.com.au report, the National Broadband Network Company did not pay to retrieve the nbnco.com.au web address from the consultancy led by Chris Worrad.
The company responsible for rolling out Sydney's troubled Tcard system is $74 million in debt, a NSW parliamentary budget estimates committee has been told.
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As we know, farmers are such bleaters. They bleat as much as the four-legged woolly things in their paddocks. If it's not the weather, it's the strength of the dollar! Nothing is ever right. Likewise with rural broadband.
One of the big problems of the internet is that is practically impossible to keep up-to-date on preferred topics. You can limit your sources, but this can mean missing a lot of valuable data.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Where is unified communications headed? Will it eventually break out of the corporate space and attract the attention of business operators? If so, who will provide the service?
Fedora is Red Hat's younger, more community-driven desktop-centric distribution. ZDNet.com.au grabbed the ISOs hot out of the oven to see what Fedora 12 was all about.
Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?
Sydney's first ever Media140 conference, held at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) studios, drew around 300 academics, journalists and media enthusiasts to discuss the benefits and risks that professionals face in using open social networks, such as Twitter.
Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.
It's been just over 12 months since Peter Nikoletatos moved west to take over the role of CIO at Perth's Curtin University of Technology. Since then, he's been working to manage the inevitable complexities of university IT while making sure he has enough time to keep his head in the clouds.
IM applications are expected to penetrate 100 percent of large organisations by the end of the decade. Meanwhile, IM attacks have increased more than 700 percent over the past year. AusCERT's general manager Graham Ingram and F-Secure's Patrik Runald warn companies to beware of the risks before deploying an Instant Messenger.
The Dell Latitude D630 can't go wrong with corporate users, because it integrates Intel's latest mobile platform with a business-friendly feature set and lengthy extended battery.
The iPhone is not compatible with Microsoft Exchange or push e-mail services, like RIM's Blackberry, which could mean users will bypass corporate security safeguards in order to get their hands on the long awaited device.
Corporate Governance can help stop companies from throwing money at projects that should be abandoned, said Jo Stewart-Rattray, director of information security at Vectra.
Detective Inspector Brian Hay, who heads up the Queensland Police Corporate Crime Investigation Group, reveals that hundreds and possibly thousands of Australians have fallen victim to the infamous Nigerian 419 scam.
Lenovo's popular IdeaPad S10-2 netbook has been slimmed down and its price reduced, making it a better netbook as long as you can live without ExpressCard.
Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.
Wondering which endpoint security suite keeps your clients the most protected? Enex TestLab racks them all up and puts them through their paces.
SonicWall's feature-packed TZ 210 gateway security appliance is capable of protecting all kinds of networks at a very affordable price. It's easy to set-up and manage, and sets a new price point in the UTM market.
Developers make good stress testers, and the initial Wave service has had a lot of testing in the last few months. We take a ride on the wave, which should be opening to a wider beta program at the end of September.
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