Supermarket chain Woolworths is currently testing Windows 7 but won't upgrade its corporate desktops from Windows XP to the new operating system before 2010, while local software house MYOB has revealed internal migration plans.
A national telephone warning system to alert people to a bushfire emergency will begin operating next week.
Capgemini's Australian operations are tracking to ramp up sales by 65 per cent this half on the last one, which has led to the company increasing its Australian-based headcount by 150 since the half year began.
The Department of Defence has released the long-awaited request for tender to refresh its languishing human resources and payroll systems but it's not ditching its Oracle/PeopleSoft systems.
Eleven counterfeiters have been given jail sentences of between one and a half and six and a half years by a Chinese court after being found guilty of producing fake Microsoft software.
SMS may have turned into a cash cow for the world's telcos, but Twitter's growing popularity gives customers an easier, cheaper option that may force carriers to come to the party or risk missing out.
Like the one ring of Sauron, the power of Telstra's copper loop twists the minds of its ever-scheming board, which hid in its Collins Street boardroom until it was wrenched from its grasp by the forces of deregulation and the undead armies of ACCC head Graeme Samuel.
Hopefully, you've been spending your end-of-year break better than the executives at Optus, who seem to have taken advantage of the annual industry-wide lull to get onetime WiMax aspirant Austar United Telecommunications to the negotiating table.
Pretty much anyone who has been in storage management for more than five minutes knows that it's not enough to simply back everything up and hope for the best.
As Britney Spears can testify, some things can be brought down all too easily by their own popularity -- as Vodafone's not-so-merry Christmas shows.
In the midst of the current Liberal emissions trading and leadership maelstrom, there exists numerous breaches in the shadow cabinet's line-up. Who will step up to fill the gap left by the fallen Senator Minchin?
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During the holiday season, snow isn't the only thing analysts shovel. With that in mind, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, Jon Oltsik, takes a look forward on networking technology and related industry trends in 2008.
From faulty satellites nearly causing World War III to the Millennium Bug, poorly executed IT has had a lot to answer for over the years
Constructing a new head office was a natural step in Bendigo Bank's growth. However, the bank's IT team was forced to do some creative thinking in figuring out how to upgrade and move its 20 terabyte storage area network (SAN) to the new data centre at the bank's new headquarters.
Dubbed the "Country Phone" Telstra's F165 sure looks the part. A rugged, rubberised candy-bar form factor with an extendable external antenna masks powerful HSDPA connectivity.
McAfee Internet Security 2008 trounces Norton Internet Security 2008, offering a better designed product with more security tools.
McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008's protection keeps up with the changing threats on the Internet, but the product doesn't excel, burdened by a user experience that's basically unchanged from last year.
ZoneAlarm Security Suite puts Norton and McAfee to shame with its easy-to-use triple-layer firewall, antivirus, antispam and now antispyware features.
It is not only the staff at RMIT Labs who have been busy, virus writers worked hard too.
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