HP has entered into a pre-bid agreement to acquire Australian document management software company Tower Software for AU$3.39 per share.
A German coder has beaten the British team operating the legendary WWII code-breaking computer Colossus in a cipher-cracking contest.
Woodside has signed a three-year AU$30 million deal with IT services outsourcer CSC.
New Zealand has rejected Microsoft's proposal to fast track its Office Open XML document format as an ISO standard, but it may change its vote if certain concerns are addressed.
Contrary to claims by the US Department of Defense that Office Open XML might lead to increased security concerns, vendor lock-in and backwards compatibility issues, Microsoft claims that OOXML resolves exactly these issues.
Two Australian software firms are laughing all the way to the bank after inking separate deals with the US and Australian defence departments.
Oracle has finally jumped on the "free" database bandwagon, joining the likes of IBM, Microsoft and Sybase. Will users bite?
In 10 years almost everything will be tagged, say the experts. So what are these little chips that are soon to be so pervasive, and how will they take over your business?
They're used in everything from Google searches to Web tax filings. But standards struggle is rattling W3C and confounding developers.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
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