Michael Dell and other high-profile technology company CEOs descended on Washington this week with a message for the US government: do more to encourage energy-efficient practices, but don't spell out specific standards for the products that companies like theirs build.
Following the resignation of Daryl Williams as IT minister, the local industry is once again leaderless. We have a few suggestions.
I seem to be a magnet for annoying customer service interactions, and expensive CRM systems don't seem to be helping. Can small businesses learn from bigger businesses' mistakes?
Whether or not Australian companies are ready for the April 10 deadline to comply with the Spam Act depends very much on who you ask.
Columnist Paul Sheehan wrote in today's Sydney Morning Herald about the MyDoom virus, spam, and the SCO-Linux battle. These issues are obviously connected, but Sheehan's explanation demonstrates so poor and convoluted an understanding of the issues, one wonders why he didn't ensure the brain was in gear before engaging the mouth (or keyboard).
The federal government intends to introduce legislation that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today.
Businesses currently using Linux must seriously consider turfing it out, according to Kieran O'Shaughnessy, regional general manager for SCO Australia and New Zealand.
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.
Technology companies don't always think things through before they start coming up with concepts. Neither do I.
ZDNet Australia takes a long hard look at the top tech stories of 2002, a year characterised by corporate collapses, broadband proliferation and slow recovery.
Viruses like MyDoom spread more quickly than warm butter on toast. Why?
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.
Fundamentalists are people who can't tolerate the idea that there are legitimate points of view other than their own. Publish something negative about Linux, and you'll soon find out what I mean.
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.
Diversity and choice are good things, we are always told. But in the case of processors, diversity may not be the answer.
Google Chrome OS demonstration
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