The British government has revealed plans to create a universal service commitment for broadband that would see every last one of the UK's broadband blackspots filled in.
Despite a slowdown in mobile device sales, next year's enterprise mobility market will witness a face-off between the Apple iPhone and the BlackBerry Storm for enterprise hearts and minds.
Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK has moved to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system in time for the new academic year.
Tech analyst heavyweight Forrester Research just got a little bigger.
In a new study, Forrester Research uncovers some good news for Microsoft: Vista usage among US businesses is up by more than 40 percent since January. The bad news: still, less than 10 per cent of the 50,000 companies surveyed use Vista.
There are some common elements in how IT professionals and home users deal with backup: the need for backups to happen automatically and quietly, and to be easily and quickly restored when the proverbial hits the fan.
The dullest observation you can possibly make about information technology is that it should be designed to serve the needs of the business, rather than the technology experts.
In the Australian market, banks are the archetypal large IT customer: they've got lots of technology of differing vintages, have to spend a fortune on services to stitch it all together, and are also obliged to meet a super-strict regulatory regime which would make most lesser enterprises quake in their virtualised boots.
Reality has been cruel to virtual worlds, with most failing to live up to expectations, especially in business environments. Did analysts get that right or are they also guilty of second-degree Second Life hyping?
Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
Symbian is the mobile world's dominant operating system, but can it walk the walk in the business world or will it always be the poor cousin to Windows Mobile in the enterprise? David Braue finds out.
Designed for truly mobile computing, there are two types of tablet PCs -- convertible and slate. In this guide, we show you what's available in Australia and whitepapers for making a business case to purchase Tablet PCs.
Faced with an increasing number of wireless technologies and standards, planning a long-term networking strategy is a daunting prospect.
Can virtualisation help you simplify your storage management? And when will it be ready?
There's a new generation of machines out there that split the difference between laptop PCs and handheld PDAs--call them "tweeners." Question is, what are they good for?
Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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Has New Zealand's smiling assassin delivered?
The long-awaited separation of Telstra
Google open-sources JavaScript tools
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