Thomson Reuters Australia's purchase of Ernst & Young's tax compliance software business, Ernst & Young Information Systems, has been opposed by the competition regulator.
Sun Microsystems late last week announced plans to shed between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs.
Telstra has launched the first stage of its T-Suite Software as a Service offering to provide software to businesses on a hosted monthly basis.
A bargain-hunting investment consortium named Manhattan Software Bidco has offered around $443 million plus options in a takeover bid for Australia's leading accounting software brand, MYOB.
Companies belching greenhouse gases will have to keep track of their footprint as of today so they can report their levels to the government.
It takes a fair bit of nerve to charge anything to fix up a botched product, but Microsoft's $14.95 price to get a physical copy of Windows XP Service Pack 3 really takes some beating for sheer gall.
HP this week staged its first software forum for the Asia Pacific region at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney.
Check Point may have made big bucks selling firewalls in its early days, but it is struggling to live up to its CEO's vision in today's rapidly shifting security market.
Dr Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS -- the world's largest privately owned software company -- to discuss his company's strong commitment to R&D, his thoughts about the best way to fill the skills gap and his feelings on Bill Gates and Microsoft.
Eager for fresh ideas, the stodgy world of enterprise software is adopting technology and marketing from the consumer Web.
To move ahead, big software companies are reaching back to a familiar strategy: offering customers a soup-to-nuts "stack" of software products.
Companies that offer virtualisation software are changing their business models and tweaking their software.
The BlackBerry 8707g is reasonably zippy and easy-to-use, but lacks many common smartphone features like Wi-Fi and microSD memory expansion.
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.
Google has repackaged and enhanced its business-oriented software offerings into a paid-subscription suite known as Google Apps Premier Edition.
Office Live is still not an online version of Office, but the set of small business tools has a few new tricks and is heading out of beta.
WordPerfect 12.0 features a core stable of productivity apps but suffers from its poor handling of Microsoft files.
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