Optima's administrator yesterday said it was having trouble finding buyers for the failed PC maker due to fears about liability for warranties on sold PCs.
The New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority has claimed it is owed $1.5 million by failed Australian PC-maker Optima on a $5 million deal inked in 2006.
The group responsible for maintaining the internet's most popular domain name software BIND has admitted it caused problems by fast-tracking a security patch designed to fix the widescale DNS flaw discovered by researcher Dan Kaminsky this month.
Australian computer maker and electronics distributor Optima ICM today said it had voluntarily appointed administrator Moore Stephens to several of its ailing divisions.
As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley.
New storage technology can be frankly pornographic: it's big, it's sexy and you want it slammed into your rack right now but is a long term relationship more satisfying?
Is Apple keeping the iPod Touch and iPhone platform closed to third party developers to protect its impressive record on security?
Ever outsourced to a vendor with fantastic technical capability, but major management issues?
As residents of NSW prepare to hit the polls, it's an apt time to take a look at the online campaign of former ACS president Edward Mandla, who has employed YouTube in his efforts to oust Clover Moore in the Sydney electorate.
Remember the thrill of waiting for, and at long last receiving, a handwritten letter from a friend?
Reality has been cruel to virtual worlds, with most failing to live up to expectations, especially in business environments. Did analysts get that right or are they also guilty of second-degree Second Life hyping?
Carbon. Is there nothing it can't do? As well as being the fundamental element behind life, the premium component in energy storage and the top contender for executioner of the human race, it's now beginning to fill in the forms for consideration as inheritor to silicon's electronic crown.
The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
In the 60 years since its invention, the transistor has shrunk from hulking origins to the point where more than six billion can fit in an area the size of a credit card. Follow the history of the transistor from its humble origins in Bell Labs to its possible quantum future.
Over the past few years, the amount of electricity required to power a server in a datacentre has more than doubled. In this special report, we look at why many datacentres today are facing a power and cooling crisis.
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...
Gordon Moore, "We have another decade, a decade and a half" At the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore discusses the end of Moore's Law, which he believes will hit a wall in the next 10 to 15 years.
While the IdeaPad Y510 is Lenovo's launch into the consumer space, the laptop didn't fall far from tree, its heritage in the ThinkPad line is clear. We found it to be an attractive, powerful performer with average battery life.
Intel's latest mobile platform, now officially christened Centrino Duo, introduces the Core Duo (Yonah) chip with dual CPU cores. This and other developments should deliver useful -- if not revolutionary -- increases in notebook performance and battery life.
The choices are endless -- but do we really need everything our mobile phone sells us?
Hard drive failure can happen any time, but is your back (up) covered to minimise the loss?
In the first instalment of a two-part review on thin clients, we look at thin-client terminals.
Apple drops iPhone NDA
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Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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