Last weekend, some customers buying goods from merchants with Bank of Queensland EFTPOS terminals had to have their purchases processed manually after payments failed to work.
Vodafone's 3G network coverage in Perth has now been restored after an 11-hour outage caused by "routine network maintenance".
NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (DADHC) has given itself the mission to make its core Siebel system more user-friendly for its staff.
From 1994 to 2002, Rod Shelley worked as a PC technician at a major computer-retail store in the US. After seeing all kinds of wacky, operator-induced computer issues, Shelley decided to start documenting them. This photo gallery is the result.
A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too.
Today, Symantec released Norton 360 Version 2.0, but I wonder whether the security giant has learned from its past mistakes?
If the Internet is God, and the browser my shepherd, I am a lost lamb who has been waiting for the Prophet to answer my call: What are those icon-less buttons at the bottom of Internet Explorer 7?
In my last blog post, I described some latency issues that appeared on my MacBook once our IT department installed Entourage and Exchange. This led to Microsoft getting in touch to try and help me out but in the end the problems were solved by ditching Entourage in favour of Apple's Mail.
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?
If you're one of those people who likes to complain whenever their Wi-Fi connection even temporarily flickers, then being forced to use older connectivity technologies is a useful reminder of how much we have to be intermittently grateful for.
IT remains a lively, exciting and suprising place. That makes predictions particularly foolish, but here are some picks for the winners and losers of the next twelve months.
Over time, users begin to notice that their system is slow or that it hangs. While the possibilities for system slowdown are endless, we identify 10 common troubleshooting areas to examine before you suggest to management that it's time for an upgrade.
Technology is allowing workers to stay in contact no matter where they are. How do you choose the right combination of hardware, software, data transport, and voice transport, then secure the whole lot and make sure your organisation is set up to take advantage?
So you've replaced your copper cables with fibre optics, but now you're having problems. This article shows how to troubleshoot faults in fibre optic cables, including questions to ask to narrow down possible causes.
Despite a rocky beginning, intrusion detection and prevention systems are an important part of any security arsenal. We road-test six hardware and software-based systems.
The Pro805 frustrates as much as it innovates with a touchscreen interface and an interesting, iPhone-style app store.
The D-Link Xtreme N Storage Router DIR-685 is a very good single-band Wireless-N router; however, its extra features hardly justify the price.
Belkin's N+ Wireless Storage Router leaps ahead of the wireless-N pack, and finally delivers a wireless-N router worth owning.
NetComm Turbo 7 Series Wireless Gateway provides an easy set-up, good coverage and modest speed. While this system gives you the advantage of portable wireless gateway, wireless services are less reliable and cannot match ADSL2 speeds.
WhatsUp Gold v12 will satisfy existing and new users alike. And it's not just for large enterprises: small and medium-sized businesses can also monitor all their web servers, email servers, SQL servers, file servers and even critical desktops without breaking the bank.
Microsoft Office 2010 beta
The beta for Microsoft Office 2010 is here and we've had a chance to check out the latest version. Though the … Watch it now
Ben Forta: All about Adobe
Take one ColdFusion veteran and mix in a healthy dose of prolific book writing, and chances are you will end u… Watch it now
Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Google's chief sits down for an extremely rare, wide-ranging interview and discusses Google's two operating sy… Watch it now
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