News (31)

  • Microsoft dumps scorecard freebie as launch looms

    Microsoft has quietly withdrawn one of its most popular free Office add-ons in order to pave the way for a paid version of the product.

  • Little joy for CIOs in 2006: Gartner

    Your job is cactus, project management is impossible and outsourcing sucks.

  • Queensland shire goes big on Wi-Fi

    A plan to encourage small business development in Queensland's Redland Shire has led to the development of Australia's largest Wi-Fi network and created a potential competitive model for existing wireless broadband providers.

  • BigPond e-mail struggles again

    Customers of Telstra's BigPond e-mail service have suffered prolonged service outages today, raising questions over fixes to the telco giant's systems.

  • CIOs not yet ready for blade technology

    Chief information officers are still adopting a 'wait and see' attitude to blade servers, with many reluctant to face the cost of integrating blades into their existing systems, a new study reveals.

Blogs (3)

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Will you manage in the exabyte era?

    Mammoth growth in storage volumes is a fact of life, but even so it's helpful to pause occasionally and try and work out whether our information strategies have fallen hopelessly out of step with the pace of technological growth and changes in costs.

  • Taking datacentres on the road

    Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    The $5 budget challenge

    The ever-decreasing cost of storage might look like a useful development for the cash-strapped IT manager, but in fact the falling bucks per gigabyte figure can carry a hidden sting in the tail.

Features and Case Studies (4)

  • Australian banks failing to capitalise on CRM

    Australian banks are lagging well behind world standards when it comes to using customer relationship management (CRM) technologies, and recent attempts to use CRM as a cost-cutting exercise may be doomed to failure, according to industry experts.

  • DVD burning: a business issue?

    Making copies of DVD movies on the office machine may seem like an excellent idea to some of your employees. But what issues should Australian enterprises and IT departments be aware of?

  • Escape from data Alcatraz

    Take a tour of Hostworks' high tech, and virtually impenetrable datacentre to find out how far a hosting company will go to ensure the safety of your data.

  • Vertical PDAs: On the road again

    The choice of operating system for a personal digital assisant (PDA) is effectively down to two— Palm OS or Pocket PC—but the variety of choices for the handheld itself is very impressive. We test three of the best, and see what’s coming up soon.

Reviews (21)

  • A Month With The Mac: Week Three: Mac it so

    In which ZDNet Australia's reviews editor plays with Microsoft Mac apps, learns some interesting new terms from the Mac community, and makes a surprising swerve to the dark side.

  • A month with the Mac: Week Two: Apple-cations

    Is the Mac application-starved? Our intrepid reviews editor investigates in the second part of our special Mac feature.

  • World Wide Useless Web

    Why on earth would you promote your product with food-based representations of deceased politicians?

  • Sony Ericsson P900

    Sony's update to the P800 is smaller, slicker and a solid challenge to every other smart phone out there. Read our Australian review.

  • Mythconceptions

    Commentary: The average fairy tale has more truth in it that some of the rubbish that's endlessly reiterated about software piracy.

Create an e-mail alert for "kidman"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
kidman


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured