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  • WA budget: Synergy to create IT dept

    Western Australia's largest energy retailer Synergy stated in yesterday's Western Australian State Budget that it plans to establish its own IT environment.

  • Vista/Server 2008 SP2 gets Hyper-V

    Microsoft has announced that its Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has reached the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) phase and detailed the changes contained within the update.

  • Optus launches naked DSL

    Optus this morning announced it would offer naked DSL broadband plans, as well as broadband offerings provided on a "month-to-month" basis.

  • Seagate hard disk fix breaks some

    Seagate yesterday released a fix to a bug in its current generation of drives that caused them to become undetectable by a computer. Users have found, however, that the fix breaks 500GB drives the fix has since been retracted.

  • Satyam implodes in accounting disaster

    Satyam Computer Services announced overnight its founder and chairman, B. Ramalinga Raju, had resigned, following an admission that he inflated its financial performance.

  • Google plans Picasa beta for Mac

    Google plans shortly to release a beta version of Picasa for Mac OS X, helping Apple fans catch up to Windows and Linux users already employing the free tool for editing, cataloguing and uploading photos.

  • NetSuite's half-price sale targets Salesforce

    NetSuite has begun an aggressive drive to capture current Salesforce.com customers, guaranteeing its CRM product for half the price they are currently paying for the incumbent product

  • Aussie councils not keen on Gmail

    Most of Australia's largest metropolitan councils have said they are not immediately interested in adopting Google's Gmail or Apps corporate packages, despite comments by one of the search giant's local partners to the contrary.

  • Trend Micro Internet Security 2009 Pro: Photos

    It's that time of year again, with security companies releasing their 2009 range. This gallery gives you an insight into Trend Micro's offering.

  • Don't buy stand-alone antivirus: Trend Micro

    Stand-alone antivirus applications were dangerous because they could not adequately protect users and so created a false sense of security, according to the top malware expert at Trend Micro. However, the company continues to sell its stand-alone antivirus app because of 'customer demand'.

  • IBM revamps storage line

    IBM today launched its "largest ever" range of new storage products, in an attempt to meet a market demand for storage the technology giant said would grow over the next decade.

  • Microsoft offers Hyper-V for free

    Microsoft began a major virtualisation push late yesterday, with the introduction of new virtualisation tools and by making its core hypervisor product free of charge.

  • Westnet trials iiNet ADSL2+

    Perth-based internet service provider Westnet has started trialling ADSL2+ services using its new parent iiNet's broadband network, with a formal launch date likely to come before the end of the year.

  • Google plans 'Chrome' browser

    Search giant Google has confirmed it will shortly unveil a new Web browser dubbed 'Chrome' and based on code from the Webkit project.

  • Microsoft probing ActiveX attacks targeting Access feature

    Microsoft has issued a security advisory warning about targeted attacks being launched that exploit a hole in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database management system.

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