Microsoft used its annual TechFest gathering of research lab technicians in Redmond last week to launch a new prototype operating system called Singularity.
Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Thursday, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said his company was on the prowl for acquisitions that made strategic sense.
Google has announced it has sponsored the Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race to the moon with a purse of US$30 million.
Microsoft on Friday debuted its AdCenter Incubation Lab, providing a peek at some of the ad-based technologies the lab is cooking up.
Until the mid-1990s, Lotus was one of the software companies that really mattered. But management failed to get behind Windows and allowed Microsoft to move in for the kill.
There's something to be said for the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen an idea of continually improving business via small changes something that unfortunately doesn't seem to glean many votes or impress punters.
Analyst group Gartner has been prominent on the conference front of late, cranking up its talk-fests in Sydney around outsourcing, application integration, data centres, and security. Technology managers come from far and wide for the events, but are they worthwhile?
The end of the financial year must be nigh -- vendors are rolling out their last minute specials to try and get everyone to spend their last shreds of budget before 30 June rolls around.
Microsoft's web-focused ReMIX conference kicked off at Star City in Sydney this morning. Attendees will be able to take in the latest and greatest of Microsoft's technologies, as well as learn tricks of the tradefrom their peers.
When Apple whips the covers off the latest iPhone software we want to be blown away, because when it comes to a major software update copy-and-paste just doesn't cut it.
The vast corpus of human knowledge could soon be published on the Internet. The problem now is how to wade through it.
There's no fixed way to create an ESB, but getting interoperability right is key to any system.
Unless you've been hiding under a rock for a few years, then you should know by now that the IT industry is in the throes of an integration revolution.
It's called the Viewty Smart, but it's definitely not a smartphone. Aside from the decent camera, there's very little to recommend this high-priced mobile.
We wanted a "Baby Bold" but instead we got the "Bold lite". Not having 3G seriously cripples an otherwise excellent BlackBerry.
Motorola has applied its rediscovered sense of style in spades to the latest addition to the local 3G phone stable, the E1000.
Telstra is boosting its mobile network to cope with the huge volume of SMS messages predicted for New Years Eve.
The latest version of the popular OpenBSD (Berkley Software Distribution) was released today, and is available for download from FTP sites.
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