Microsoft said on Thursday that it has hired Tony Scott as chief information officer to head management of its internal IT systems.
Pierre Matthee has been appointed to the permanent chief information officer position at General Motors Holden, after acting in the role for the last six months.
Telco AT&T has sealed the deal of a lifetime, with American car maker General Motors agreeing to pay almost US$1 billion (AU$1.26 billion) for networking services over the next five years.
General Motors has announced a multiyear partnership with university researchers to study the mounting controversy of dashboard electronics and driver distraction.
While Hughes Network Systems in the US is attempting to distance itself from a wireless connectivity advertisement in Brisbane's Courier Mail, sources close to the company claim it's attempting to cover-up a botched rollout of its wireless AXs cards.
General Motors CTO Tony Scott says he's fed up with products that fail to work as advertised and with technology suppliers who may be ducking responsibility for it.
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
Yahoo continues to struggle behind Google in the US but in Australia, it's a slightly different story -- NineMSN, the partnership between Kerry Packer's PBL and Microsoft, remains a major stumbling block for the online giant.
In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
Sun's co-founder has reveled in running his mouth, and the list of 'McNealy-isms' has become legendary within the tech industry.
Apple Computer is in negotiations with six airlines to provide in-flight integration for the iPod.
Apple learnt its lesson when it tried - and failed - to sue Microsoft for copyright infringement of its interface. It has since turned its attention to patents but should not be allowed to succeed here either.
New research from the University of Utah has revealed a potentially lethal "tunnel vision" that drivers get while talking on a mobile phone.
StarOffice 8 is an impressive upgrade of Sun's bargain productivity suite, and a good buy for small and large businesses since it costs a fraction of the price of its main competitor, Microsoft Office 2003.
The graphics chip giant unveils new high-end chips for graphics designers, scientists and other workstation users.
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