Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary.
Asus has announced the final specifications for the first Eee Box desktop version of its popular Eee PC subnotebook — and it will include Windows XP, which has now been given a reprieve on some desktops, as well as Eee PC-type notebooks.
Tourist industries in most states have collaborated to create a national tourism accreditation portal which eases the process of tourist businesses becoming certified.
Microsoft has acquired a small search technology company Powerset to buttress its search efforts, but it won't shake Google's grasp of the search market in the short term.
Monday was the last day on which Windows XP will be sold as a boxed product or licensed to PC manufacturers.
Three-quarters of the way through a massive consolidation and overhaul of its core business applications, dairy and juice giant National Foods has found that the most difficult parts of the project aren't related to technology, but to processes and the simple challenge of keeping skilled people on track.
A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June.
A Flickr project to house publicly held images is getting hundreds of photos from Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.
Developers of social networking sites are considering sharing blacklists of annoying and 'spammy' applications with each other in an effort to prevent users from switching off Web 2.0 technology.
Privacy problems and propagation of "virus-like" applications has led to a marked decline in the use of Facebook's developer platform, according to industry analysts Ovum.
Firefox 3 aimed for 5 million downloads in the first 24 hours of its release, and smashed all expectations achieving more than 8 million downloads worldwide. This photo gallery takes you inside the new features this recording breaking browser.
Creating and cataloguing recordings of indigenous languages is a challenging enough technology task, but the Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre had some additional barriers to overcome: creaky IT systems, a depleting base of native speakers and the ever-present threat of cyclones.
Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft.
In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
Much of the future success of Adobe Systems hinges on the work done by its Platform Business Unit, which is headed by Kevin Lynch, the company's chief software architect.
The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?
Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash — and how to spend less of it.
It has competed hard with the likes of Microsoft and IBM, but over the years Novell has remained a smaller player than either of its two main rivals. CTO Jeff Jaffe tells what Novell has up its sleeve to bring the company up to speed: Fossa, an open source project named after the Madagascan relative of the Mongoose.
The explosion in drive-by download attacks continues to grow. How has the situation got so dangerous? Are there any "trusted" Web sites left?
The BlackBerry 8707g is reasonably zippy and easy-to-use, but lacks many common smartphone features like Wi-Fi and microSD memory expansion.
The second generation TouchSmart as just a panel PC is gorgeous. The AU$1,999 price is fantastic as well — but we can't help but feel that there's so much more potential in the touchscreen aspect being left, ahem, untapped.
If only for the speed, lightness of being and security alone, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for best internet browser.
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Eset NOD32 3.0 delivers an easy-to-use version of its award-winning antivirus engine. Although our performance testing was mixed, NOD32 continues to rank among the best-rated antivirus products by independent antivirus testing labs.
Here are ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented -- and who very nearly succeed.
HTC's Shift is yet another UMPC — and another white elephant to add to the pile. By trying to be everything to everyone, the Shift succeeds at being nothing to anyone.
Of the less well known open source browsers, Maxthon has been gaining attention as the second most popular Web browser in its home state of China. Based on IE's Trident engine, we found it to be highly customisable; however its lack of support makes it difficult to recommend for business.
Spb Mobile Shell 2.0 gives Windows Mobile an extreme makeover, giving the drab WM interface some flare and making the operating platform easier to use.
AVG Internet Security 8.0 provides strong protection against malicious Web sites, but its full-system scans sometimes tax system resources and produce false positives.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender — which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
E-mail is frequently blamed for creating storage bloat, but is the most effective means of dealing with the problem increasing storage capacity, imposing quotas, enforcing archive rules, or just driving the help desk nuts with questions?
At the CeBIT exhibition in Germany this week, Steve Ballmer got on stage and told the world that Microsoft takes "green" issues seriously.
Spending time hanging out in Second Life has convinced me of one thing: very few real-world processes benefit from being replicated by a bunch of avatars -- and that goes doubly for storage.
If you're considering an upgrade to Entourage 2008, think again -- for some reason, Microsoft hasn't bothered to add some vital functions that are critical to making Apple Mac systems welcome on any Exchange network.
The day of reckoning finally arrived for CDMA -- and was then postponed, leaving everyone with any strong feeling on the subject a nice window of three months to once again enjoy the semantic back-and-forth the closure provokes.
The council rubbish truck didn't pick up my bin last week. Instead, the garbage contractor left a big yellow sticker highlighting exactly why my old egg shells, rancid fruit, microwave pizza boxes, an ancient and smelly pair of sneakers, and the odd brick had been left to rot on my property.
More and more Australians are choosing to work from home for at least part of the week.
By allowing people both in and outside of companies to connect with each other, and share information over the network, the pace of business operations will escalate.
ICT salaries are rising, but they are certainly not skyrocketing.
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