As Microsoft launches Windows 7 in Australia, major federal welfare agency Centrelink is planning to migrate to the new operating system by mid next year. Will other companies follow its example, or will Microsoft see the same lack of interest for Windows 7 as it did for Vista?
Richard Egan, co-founder of storage giant EMC and former US ambassador died in his home on Friday after a long battle with lung cancer.
Samsung will launch four very different touchscreen smartphones under one name, calling them the Icon range.
The Australian Crime Commission has today begun its search for a new chief information officer after its former candidate left for another government CIO position.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has appointed a new chief information officer, who has been in place since mid January.
Just how much money is there in storage? That was the question I had to ask myself as I ventured around EMC's well-attended customer conference in Sydney this week.
Several factors have combined recently to make a number of Australian organisations reconsider their Microsoft Enterprise Agreements.
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.
Security is an essential requirement to providing a reliable, consistent IT infrastructure. In this report, we look at how one financial concern battles viruses and showcase a string of antivirus solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses.
The BIOS is one of the most closely guarded pieces of your system's software. Now some people want to set it free.
Trial pitting Oracle against PeopleSoft turns into mating ritual of sorts, as sides quibble over money.
Joseph Hanlon takes you through the pros and cons of wireless broadband to help you figure out if it's right for you.
Joseph Eng, JetBlue's executive vice president of systems and technology, explains how IT is going to be integrated into the company's new high-tech terminal.
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.
Commentary: A shift in corporate IT's priorities might play to Microsoft's advantage, but it will take a quasi-religious conversion to get IT directors to accept the Microsoft way.
3G mobile technology is a bit like getting a phone line installed: it'll be there next week, promise. By the time 3G arrives, will it be obsolete?
A move by four sellers of Linux to unite behind a single version of the operating system might help those allies--and boost Linux's popularity--but it isn't likely to dent the dominance of the top dog, Red Hat.
In emergencies, one should be able to use antivirus definitions from the Rescue Disk itself. Unfortunately, that isn't the case. ZDNet offers a workaround.
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