Recruitment specialist Hudson today confirmed that its CIO Atul Thapar, who was only appointed last year, had decided to leave the company to pursue other opportunities.
Opinions are mixed amongst Australian chief information officers, partners and analysts on whether Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems will end up with a positive or negative result.
Microsoft yesterday officially launched the online versions of its Exchange and SharePoint software platforms, but only to businesses in the United States for now.
Servers hosting the new version of OpenOffice.org have crashed, under the weight of demand for the latest version of the open-source office productivity suite.
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.
Brisbane-born start-up Particls promised a better way of organising information from the web. Now, however, it appears to have given up the battle, with both the Particls website and that of its parent company Faraday Media disappearing from the web.
While elements of Microsoft's Office suite have been in use for more than 20 years, the company now appears unpleasantly convinced that nobody really has any idea how to use the product.
Forget Google and Zoho, it will be Microsoft that takes the online word processor to the masses.
As Microsoft unveils the next version of its flagship Office suite, we ask: is it revolution or evolution?
Firewalls have come a long way since we last looked at them in 2005, and have now become full-blown Unified Threat Management devices. We take a look at the top players.
Energizer chief information officer Randy Benz would be happy if he never had to run another server inside his company ever again; most of his company's services are already run by Microsoft as part of the software giant's emerging online model.
The current buzz around virtualisation may sound familiar to anyone with experience of high-end computing's origins " so what makes today's scenario so different?
Gerri Martin-Flickinger, CIO of Adobe, thinks that in the future Rich Internet Applications are going to have many uses, separate from the browser. For example, users will be able to customise their application interface, and the RIAs will provide visibility into back office applications.
Following the trend of all-in-one desktops, the Dell Inspiron One 19 is aimed at the budget market and clearly shows in both design and performance.
For undemanding users who aren't into HD video, Asus' Eee Box B206 is worth a look; however, it's not powerful enough to take on other media-centre PCs.
The HP Compaq 6730b is a reasonable but uninteresting business notebook. Unfortunately the competition and even HP are offering much better systems at a comparative or lower price.
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The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is a prime example of the netbook form factor, and the best 8.9-inch one available.
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