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  • VoIP to dominate SME use by 2010

    A recent Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) report found that a majority of businesses still use a fixed-line phone service as their main form of voice communication, but one observer has claimed that VoIP will be prevalent across SMEs by 2010.

  • Scared or oblivious: Australia's SMEs on Linux

    Australian SMEs aren't paying nearly enough attention to Linux considering the top priority for their IT managers is to "reduce costs", but despite the prevailing attitude, it won't take much for open source to have a far greater impact in the near future, according to research released today.

  • AU wireless LAN market growth continues: IDC

    The Australian wireless LAN (WLAN) market is continuing to build from last year, according to the research released by IDC today.

  • Report: Web services a decade away

    The ultimate promise of Web services--delivering software as a service--is at least a decade away from being fulfilled, according to a report from IDC.

  • Aust lags in fighting software piracy

    Australia is lagging behind the US, New Zealand and the UK when it comes to reducing software piracy rates, according to a report released today.

Features and Case Studies (130)

  • The war against VoIP: How long can the telcos fight?

    Voice over IP has reached some major milestones in 2008 in both the enterprise and consumer ends of the market but how long can traditional telcos continue to fight against this disruptive technology?

  • Who guards the guards: Storage

    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.

  • Storage software revenue stays aloft

    Growing demand for more efficient storage helped push second-quarter revenue from storage software to a 16.9 percent rise over last year, according to a new IDC study.

  • IDC gives Oracle top database spot

    A market research report on database sales last year found that Oracle has the most market share and that revenue from databases overall grew slightly last year.

  • Australian companies facing business continuity crisis?

    Although 85 percent of Australian companies have a business continuity plan in place, only half of Australian companies have tested their plan, according to IDC.

Reviews (53)

  • Bleak forecast for PC vendors

    Australian computer vendors can expect poor sales for the second quarter of 2001, according to forecasts outlined in a report on the PC market's performance, released by IT industry analysts International Data Corporation (IDC).

  • Aust mobile nos to hit 17m by 2007; IDC

    The number of Australian mobile phone users is expected to hit 17.2 million by 2007, up nearly 2.5 million from end-2003, according to analyst group International Data Corp.

  • Six SAN shoot-out

    Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).

  • i-mate Ultimate 9502

    The i-mate Ultimate 9502 is the larger sibling of the i-mate 8502, and shares the honour of being Australia's first HSUPA phone. While we believe this phone is in the same league as a BlackBerry or the iPhone, be wary of Telstra's promised internet speeds.

  • Tablet PCs off to solid start

    Shipments of tablet PCs topped 72,000 units in the fourth quarter of last year, and will "grow considerably" this year, research firm IDC said Friday.

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