Advanced Micro Devices sold more chips than industry giant Intel in US retail stores in October, according to a report released on Tuesday by market researcher Current Analysis.
The market for database server software, seen as a barometer of overall software market health, grew slightly last year fueled in part by sales of Linux.
Sometimes the quick marketing of new technologies can mask the real issues.
Sales of servers using Linux will grow faster than the overall market at least through 2008, when customers will spend US$9.1 billion for machines using the open-source operating system, market researcher IDC forecast on Monday.
Sales of wireless-networking gear continued their steep climb, as consumers picked up on low pricing and equipment sellers began to ease the security and management concerns of businesses, according to a research report.
StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.
Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".
Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first.
People were apparently switching their brains off before joining the 3G iPhone queues, so it's somewhat surprising that considering an appropriate amount of storage was quite a high priority for many buyers.
Although 3G phones have been around for years, it appears the iPhone 3G has successfully rewritten the rules of competition in Australia's mobile sector whetting the nation's appetite for data.
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Big Blue seeks higher, more profitable ground in the market for business computing services.
We try and make some sense of the plethora of reports on the IT job market.
Strategic sales of more expensive servers indicates the "Band-Aid approach" of recent years is waning, analyst says.
In this Super Techies interview, tech star Marc Benioff talks with CNET's Dan Farber about his career as a business entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Benioff discusses his early work as a programmer for Apple; honing his sales and marketing skills with industry mogul Larry Ellison at Oracle; and his current...
Once the toast of the gadget market, personal digital assistants have been losing some of their fizz and in 2002 continued a steady slide.
Salesforce.com's service is a good solution for co-ordinating any business's sales efforts.
Despite a much-hyped launch and an influx of new vendors, tablet PCs are not exactly flying off the shelves, according to new figures from Canalys, which says Microsoft is to blame.
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.
The benefits of keeping information centralised and up to date are obvious for all parts of your business. ZDNet Australia looks at software packages designed to help your sales force stay on track.
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