Curtin University has decided to put its 192,000 students and alumni onto Microsoft's hosted Live@edu email system and will be migrating them over this month.
The local versions of Microsoft's latest crack at Google, a new search engine called Bing, will go live in Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday in beta form.
Mobile operator 3 has unveiled a phone designed for accessing web 2.0 services such as Facebook; and it'll hit Australia before Christmas.
Microsoft today announced an overhaul of its Windows Live, Hotmail and MSN Messenger products, with a raft of new features available from February 2009.
Intuit shared details of bookkeeping app QuickBooks 2009 on Monday in the US.
Two entrepreneurs flying the flag for Australia at the prestigious DemoFall 09 showcase in Silicon Valley last week made their presence known in the best possible way: by beating 70 other attendees to be named the best enterprise product.
The fact that Australia won't be represented at either of the globe's pre-eminent showcases for emerging tech companies should be considered a national disgrace.
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The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
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It's been just over 12 months since Peter Nikoletatos moved west to take over the role of CIO at Perth's Curtin University of Technology. Since then, he's been working to manage the inevitable complexities of university IT while making sure he has enough time to keep his head in the clouds.
Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?
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If you're using a Microsoft Windows operating system there is also a good chance that you use Office and Outlook as your email client. But is this really a choice?
In an interview with ZDNet.com.au, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts with us about the web, Google, Microsoft and Flickr's acquisition by Yahoo, as well as his recent departure from the US search giant.
Trillian is a full-featured, standalone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC.
IM applications are expected to penetrate 100 percent of large organisations by the end of the decade. Meanwhile, IM attacks have increased more than 700 percent over the past year. AusCERT's general manager Graham Ingram and F-Secure's Patrik Runald warn companies to beware of the risks before deploying an Instant Messenger.
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At a very affordable price, the D-Link Wireless N Router DIR-615 makes a great entry-level Wireless-N router and would satisfy most situations where a wireless network is needed.
The netbook market is so tight, you need some sort of competitive advantage to stand above the crowd. ViewSonic brings a standard netbook with two negatives instead poor battery life and a bad touchpad.
The Snap will appeal to a specific segment of business-minded road warriors who need good messaging but don't want to pay for extras like media or social networking.
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.
The Nokia 6760 mixes Twitter, Facebook and several instant messaging clients with a full-QWERTY keyboard and should be a recipe for success.
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