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    Yahoo, under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management on Thursday in a plan designed to improve its products, underlying technology, and operational execution, the company said.

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    Hewlett-Packard and EDS are expected to shortly detail which executives will lead their now combined Australian operation following HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant over the past several months.

  • Yahoo gets the flick

    The departure of Flickr's co-founders follows the earlier resignation of Jeff Weiner, who was executive vice president of Yahoo's network division.

  • Commander: Can the turnaround succeed?

    Four months into Commander's 'turnaround' plan, CEO Amanda Lacaze is confident that the ailing IT services company is heading for better days.

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    Burning down the warehouse

    Getting executive sponsorship for any kind of data clean-up project isn't easy. If careful reasoning, detailed budget plans and a touch of blackmail don't work, then there may be a simpler solution: arson.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    StartupCamp Melbourne: The review

    StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.

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    Mission-critical now a meaningless phrase

    If you think two-thirds of your IT is mission-critical, you're either running an incredibly lean and efficient operation or you haven't got a clue how many applications you have and which ones you need to manage.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    2Vouch refers well

    Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".

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    iPhone: how much storage is enough?

    People were apparently switching their brains off before joining the 3G iPhone queues, so it's somewhat surprising that considering an appropriate amount of storage was quite a high priority for many buyers.

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    ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind interviews Keith Coleman, Google's Gmail product manager, about the current status of Gmail and the future of this popular Google app. Coleman also covers other Gmail issues, including the rebuild of the Javascript engine and how strongly Google feels about users' data.

  • Microsoft Office executive claims OOXML provides greater security than alternative document formats

    Redmond-based group project manager of Microsoft Office, Gray Knowlton, told ZDNet Australia that OOXML provides higher levels of security. "One of the benefits we have with the OpenOffice XML formats is that we know when we read and write and document because we have an XML based representation of what's in that content -- we know what should and should not be there," he said.

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  • Intel touts security with second-gen vPro PCs

    Chipmaker will release its "LaGrande" security technology in the second half of the year with the launch of its second-generation vPro business desktop technology.

  • Data centre 101

    Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

  • Making e-mail manageable: Four applications tested

    If you've got so much e-mail you don't know how you'll cope, have we got the software for you!

  • Hands off my assets: 6 asset management packages tested

    Sure you know how many PCs are on your network, but can you say for sure how many have out-of-date licenses or pirated software?

  • New Office locks down documents

    As digital media publishers scramble to devise a foolproof method of copy protection, Microsoft is ready to push digital rights management into a whole new arena--your desktop.

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