Microsoft has this week handed out US$500,000 to four universities doing research into efficient computing, while rival Sun has stepped up its green IT marketing efforts.
With IT budgets set to remain flat, CIOs are thinking hard about what to spend their cash on -- and RFID, SOA and VoIP are set to top the list.
IBM has agreed to acquire content-management software maker FileNet for about US$1.6 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday in the US.
Skype has enhanced its popular Net phone application with two new premium features: SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail.
IBM announced on Friday that it is expanding on-demand data management centers in North America, Europe and Asia and is offering a new set of utility services.
It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.
Labor's fibre-to-the-premises NBN was meant to be an act of freedom, a breaking-free from 100 years of copper infrastructure legacy and the start of something new. So why in the world are we still discussing Telstra's copper network?
Australia needs to do more to de-couple itself from an over-reliance on the boom or bust impacts that the US ICT Industry brings to Australia's own ICT industry.
Chief Security Officers face a challenging quandary at budget-time because the traditional return on investment (ROI) model falls apart when it is applied to security products but as that is the only language budget-approvers speak, what is a CSO to do?
The increasing use of virtualisation has blurred the lines between physical and virtual worlds, creating a new issue for buyers and sellers of computer software: Software licensing as we know it is dying -- or already dead.
With an increase in patent activity across the globe, we ask if businesses need to be concerned with their intellectual property.
Collaboration, records management, and workflow are just some of the features in current electronic document management software. We examine your options.
Collaboration, records management, and workflow are just some of the features in current electronic document management software. We examine your options.
Sure you know how many PCs are on your network, but can you say for sure how many have out-of-date licenses or pirated software?
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