Vendors are facing an uphill battle when competing for government tenders as bureaucratic and political obstacles continue to make the process more cumbersome than necessary, analysts believe.
The open source movement could have a damaging impact on software innovation, according to a prominent market analyst.
Australian PC shipments rose 9.5 percent year-on-year in 2002 as the market showed clear indications of recovery towards the end of the year, according to a leading analyst group.
Observers predict that Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of global outsourcer EDS for US$13.9 billion this week will bring a boost to the Australian integrated services market, but also warn the new Australian entity that its rivals will try to take advantage of the transition here.
Oracle's acquisition of BEA will boost the latter's presence in Asia Pacific, as well as strengthening Oracle's foothold in the telecommunications space, but there will be no serious ramifications on the local market, according to analysts.
If the iPhone does as expected and takes a decent chunk of the growing smartphone market then the overall penetration of OS X will skyrocket and attract some serious attention from malware writers.
My recent rant about ongoing shortcomings in Microsoft's ActiveSync -- generated a variety of responses, ranging from ''sucked in'' to ''tell me about it'', but there was one more complex theme: why not use a BlackBerry instead?
New storage technology can be frankly pornographic: it's big, it's sexy and you want it slammed into your rack right now but is a long term relationship more satisfying?
Like most people with a pulse in their wrist and a love of tech in their hearts, I saw the Macworld keynote the other day. I know it's not going to win me any friends but does anyone else think Steve Jobs mightn't be so good on numbers?
It is hardly surprising that Australian companies are beginning to enter the brave new world of Second Life.
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?
Apple has made a push towards enterprise with the release of its SDK roadmap yesterday -- but will enterprise take the bait?
Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.
Australian SMBs are hungry for storage, yet have been left underserved by major storage vendors. However, increasing demand for digital marketing and fast access to information is causing vendors to take notice of this once-neglected sector.
With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Gartner research analysts, Yvonne Genovese and David Mitchell Smith about the company's strategy regarding software as a service, or SaaS, as well as its competition with Google in the office productivity and advertising markets.
Is Internet Explorer 7 just another security patch disguised as a "new" offering? Should it rightfully be called IE 6.1 for Windows XP Service Pack 2, asks Fran Foo.
Approximately 1 billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the mid-'70s, according to a recent study released by consulting firm Gartner.
Once the toast of the gadget market, personal digital assistants have been losing some of their fizz and in 2002 continued a steady slide.
Lenovo is moving away from its business origins with the launch of a new consumer oriented PC line, dubbed the "Idea" range, later this month.
After adding it back as an option for small businesses, Dell offers the older OS on consumer machines in response to demand in the US.
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