Just as the marketing hype around Windows 7 heads towards its peak, a few details are starting to surface about its likely successor.
The BBC has confirmed that its CIO, Keith Little, has departed after eight years with the corporation.
With its entry into the market with Chrome OS, Google will be sending two operating systems into the netbook space.
Windows 7 may be generating its fair share of hype but UK chief information officers are planning to take a cautious approach towards rolling out the operating system.
Far from the world of datacentres and silicon, an agriculture project at the University of Melbourne is an unlikely place to find the forefront of cloud computing and web applications.
The government needs to stop looking at IT as a necessary evil or the place to remove costs when the Treasurer comes calling.
Eighteen months after the Federal Government severed an important lifeline for innovative Australian start-ups, a new $196 million program has been announced to help fill the Australian funding void. But will it really help?
Two entrepreneurs flying the flag for Australia at the prestigious DemoFall 09 showcase in Silicon Valley last week made their presence known in the best possible way: by beating 70 other attendees to be named the best enterprise product.
The fact that Australia won't be represented at either of the globe's pre-eminent showcases for emerging tech companies should be considered a national disgrace.
The global financial crisis might have tarnished some of Silicon Valley's lustre, but for many Australian technology entrepreneurs who have migrated to the US, it hasn't lost its bright shiny status.
Stephen Conroy's opus on the future direction of Australia's Digital Economy mainly curates existing success stories and government policies, and does little to demonstrate any form of roadmap to take the nation out of the Dark Ages.
By choosing the safe Windows XP choice for student laptops, the NSW Department of Education and training is turning its back on the chance to turn hundreds of thousands of students into armchair developers and handcuffing itself to a rocky Windows 7 upgrade path.
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British Airways chief information officer Paul Coby can justifiably claim more than most of his peers to have had a tough time coping with the economic slowdown and cuts in IT budgets.
On Saturday 15th November, Sydneysiders converged on the University of NSW for the city's fourth self-organised BarCamp unconference. From PHP hacking to OLPC laptops, Google Android and even hypnotism, BarCamp had it all.
At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending cycle ever. He adds that Silicon Valley will no longer be in charge of the rebound and emerging regions will drive IT spending and how it's deployed.
At Cisco Live in San Francisco, Silicon Valley entreprenuer Guy Kawasaki, author of Reality Check, talks about the four qualities of innovation that he believes all successful products need. They are: deep, intelligent, complete, and elegant.
Silicon Valley is atwitter over what kind of CEO Yahoo needs to hire to replace the outgoing Jerry Yang.
Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter Group, talks about how Silicon Valley will be affected by the current economic downturn. She says that Web 2.0 companies will face a scarcity of resources and more hardship, and will need to buckle down and focus on new innovations, collaboration, and getting things done.
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Justin Rattner and Michael Garner talk about materials and processes that will be used in the next 40 years to increase chip performance and advance production. Rattner and Garner discuss the future use of CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology and...
AMD's Phenom II processor is designed to boost the company's presence in the desktop market. But how does it fare against Intel's latest Core i7 (Nehalem) chip?
Apple has set the Nano back on track with the thinnest, lightest design yet, and has features that are hard to ignore.
If you've been holding back, now is the time: the second-gen Touch is an excellent media player, and the addition of third-party apps extends the fun for everyone, no matter where your interests lie.
Toshiba's Portege M700 is a tablet with a premium price tag sporting premium features and performance. If you're a mobile professional willing to pay a whole pile of cash for a highly featured tablet, this little companion might be the friend for you.
Plantronics are likely to be one of the names you think of when looking for audio headsets. After all, they've been building the things for 45 years. The Plantronics CS70N is a worthwhile investment for anyone who spends a lot of their day on the phone.
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