Australia's major banks will continue to pursue huge technology projects that will fuel local IT spending for the next few years despite the global financial crisis, according to a leading local analyst.
Apple's iPhone 3G smartphone is fit for business use, according to analyst house Gartner.
As eBay continues to promote its move to a single payment system &mdash PayPal &mdash as being in the best interests of its users, one security specialist believes it may be asking for trouble.
While "cloud computing" is some way from being an enterprise reality, IT managers need to start planning now if they want to avoid being ordered by their bosses to implement technology from Google and close down their own datacentres, a Gartner analyst has warned.
The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) dominate a list ranking the top 30 global offshoring locations.
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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?
We need statistics and commentary from analysts to reinforce the bleeding obvious because we seem quite capable of utterly ignoring it otherwise.
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?
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?
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.
IT research and analysis provider Gartner Incorporated questioned the negative coverage about offshoring in a report presented during its sourcing and IT services summit.
Strategic planning is more important than ever now the trend towards utility or on-demand computing is introducing a new class of IT mistake.
Regional outsourcing, stronger government leadership and vendor consolidation are among the trends likely to dominate Australia's tech industry in 2003, a leading analysis company claims.
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.
Salesforce.com's service is a good solution for co-ordinating any business's sales efforts.
The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?
Microsoft's software licensing program is not proving popular - about two-thirds of its biggest customers are yet to sign up, and some are exploring alternatives.
Thousands of SMEs are expected to move to DSL broadband by the end of the year. ZDNet Australia examines the industry and shows how to navigate this competitive and confusing market.
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