Despite the ubiquity of the iPod, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the 'most influential' tech product of the past 25 years, according to a survey of IT professionals.
The developers of hacker video technology DivX are going public, opening up much of their work to the open source community.
While open source databases have scored some recent successes, they won't pose a serious challenge to mature commercial databases until they have added some essential reliability and management features.
Microsoft sent anything but hugs and kisses this February in a series of interviews criticising the open source community. Red Hat CTO takes this opportunity to strike back.
Can one operating system fit all your needs? Or is it a matter of mixing and matching to the tasks at hand? ZDNet Australia assembled a panel of IT experts to find out which OS fits best.
Can one operating system fit all your needs? Or is it a matter of mixing and matching to the tasks at hand? ZDNet Australia assembled a panel of IT experts to find out which OS fits best.
How feasible is it that you could escape paying hefty licensing fees by using software subsidised by advertisements?
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Cutting costs by deploying Linux is a well-established strategy on the server and even the desktop, but what effect could it have on the cost of mobile computing?
IBM's Bob Sutor tells why service-oriented architecture is crucial to Web services development.
Commentary: A shift in corporate IT's priorities might play to Microsoft's advantage, but it will take a quasi-religious conversion to get IT directors to accept the Microsoft way.
Commentary: Bill, Steve, et al are sitting on a US$49 billion pile of cash. They recently promised to spend about $7 billion of it on increased hiring and R&D. Not a bad idea--but I've got a better one.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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The Change Program changes its Agenda
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Has New Zealand's smiling assassin delivered?
The long-awaited separation of Telstra
Google open-sources JavaScript tools
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