The Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit in Tunisia have inked a broad agreement on global Internet management that will preclude any dramatic showdown this week.
Speculation that Microsoft is planning to shortly relaunch its search engine in Australia under the "Bing" name has intensified after the software giant registered the bing.com.au domain name.
Harris Farm's 25-year-old in-store integrated retailing system was "creaking at the joints", it said this week, prompting the grocery chain to modernise, moving to a newer Microsoft platform to manage its whole supply chain.
Hackers appearing to hail from Turkey have struck a number of high profile New Zealand sites belonging to large multinational corporations like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Xerox and F-Secure.
Telstra, Optus, Microsoft, Deloitte and Macquarie Telecom donated thousands of dollars to NSW political parties in the second half of 2008, the state's Election Funding Authority has revealed.
The trademark registration system is pretty ancient, so it's no surprise that technology trademarks wind up in some unusual categories.
Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
For years, CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff appeared in public wearing an "End of Software" button on his lapel -- just to rankle Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or any other software mugwump making a killing on selling packaged applications.
What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other?
The actual administration of e-mail -- getting it into your company, filtering it, distributing it, providing mobile access to it, archiving it, backing it up, undeleting it -- can be an extremely time-consuming, bothersome process.
While the lack of supported online expansion and de-dupe is a concern, if you need your tape backups to go faster, Tandberg's DPS1200 VTL may deliver what you need.
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro's broad feature set combined with its look and feel make it a serious contender, but questionable efficacy and middling performance mean it's a program we're not recommending for this year.
The GM730's feature set makes it feel like it belongs in 2008. Unless you really like the design, there are much better WiMo phones out there to choose from.
Toshiba's Satellite U500 wants to be portable and powerful, which has a negative impact on both the battery life and the weight. Still, if you need power in a petite package, the U500 might do it for you.
Small businesses seeking robust, powerful and affordable CRM software will find that ACT! by Sage 2009 fits the bill perfectly.
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