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Developing new technologies is high on the list of achievements for a number of other countries. How does Australia rate in comparison?
Sun Microsystems has agreed to pay US$291,000 in fines to settle U.S. Commerce Department charges that the server maker violated rules in exporting equipment to China and Egypt.
Sun Microsystems plans to open its much-delayed public Sun Grid this week or next, letting people use PayPal to buy processing cycles, company president Jonathan Schwartz said.
One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?
As CSIRO stands firm on its refusal to freely license key patents relating to WLANs, I'm reminded of the joke: what do you get when you grab a man by the testicles? The answer: his full attention.
Nobody ever said that writing integration code was fun, but maybe it's time that vendors recognised that it's still an important task in most IT departments.
Australia has a $14 billion trade deficit in ICT products and services, but is it something we need to worry about?
By the end of the decade, a billion people will be clicking away at computers, but generating a profit out of newly wired portions of the world is going to take a lot of work.
CRM packages are everywhere these days. Which one is right for your organisation?
Sure you know how many PCs are on your network, but can you say for sure how many have out-of-date licenses or pirated software?
In this third instalment of our ongoing series, we take a look at four integration projects, the problems they faced, and how the organisations involved overcame them.
CRM packages are everywhere these days. Which one is right for your organisation?
Sure you know how many PCs are on your network, but can you say for sure how many have out-of-date licenses or pirated software?
We look at three hardware tools and one software tool for network maintenance.
Tape, disk, or optical? We set a budget of AU$20,000 and asked three vendors to come up with a storage solution.
Spam drives users crazy, makes life difficult for mail administrators, and drives up costs. We evaluate five packages that aim to ease the burden on your mail servers.
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