News (1783)

  • Rickroll virus targets iPhones

    An Australian has released a virus for the Apple iPhone, ikee, which replaces the infected device's background picture with an image of Rick Astley.

  • AAPT adopts Google Apps

    AAPT has decided to use Google Apps for its 1300 staff after deliberations it called more philosophical than technical.

  • RailCorp wrestles with Conficker

    RailCorp has confirmed that some of its workstations had been infected with the Conficker virus, although it insisted that the virus had caused no operational impact.

  • Jetstar CIO: Downtime risk saves money

    Jetstar's "doing it for a dollar less" mentality has meant that the airline has accepted the risk that it might not be up all the time in exchange for cheaper services, CIO Stephen Tame said today.

  • Fosters picks Wipro for IT outsourcing

    Australian beer and wine giant Fosters Group will outsource much of its internal IT department to Indian outsourcer Wipro, according to multiple sources.

Blogs (19)

  • Read the blog post - Suzanne Tindal

    Governments: Just like lemmings

    As soon as one government decides to do a new project it's a good bet that others will follow suit, in the ultimate fashion obsession.

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    A URL shortener for Google Maps

    The team at Brisbane-based Social Horizon has come up with aMAP.to, which they believe is the world's first service that shortens Google Maps URLs down to something manageable.

  • Heads in the cloud

    Could the spread of the cloud force Australian ISPs to step away from usage-based models and finally offer real, unlimited broadband packages with no hard limits? Not very likely.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Once a pit bull, Terria is losing its bite

    The inference that Soul, AAPT and TransACT were Dead Telcos Walking long before their withdrawals were announced makes me wonder whether Terria has always been, God help us all, just as flimsy a proposition as Telstra has made it out to be.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Australian twitterati talks malware

    It was inevitable that micro-blogging service Twitter would become infested with malware, according to a number of high-profile Australian users of the service.

Features and Case Studies (382)

  • Aussie iPhone developers strike gold

    The release of the iPhone 3G in July 2008 led to the creation of an entire industry where developers worked on their own applications to sell through Apple's App Store. This trend has since been picked up by larger companies. Read about why such a phenomenon is fast becoming a success.

  • The best firewall is...

    Firewalls have come a long way since we last looked at them in 2005, and have now become full-blown Unified Threat Management devices. We take a look at the top players.

  • Taking out the trash

    If mainstream media cannot be trusted to provide an objective, poison-free analysis of the issues of the day, then it is the responsibility of this government specifically, my department to come to the citizenry's rescue.

  • Australia's ICT industry is panicking

    The leaders of Australia's ICT industry are currently in a state of panic over the debatable prospect of an economic downturn in the sector and are going too far with cutting jobs.

  • Why I switched from Firefox to Chrome

    Sorry if it sounds like I'm drinking the Google Kool-Aid here, but I have switched from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome as my default browser for the very reason Google's executives said we should: speed.

Videos (3)

  • Gates sees software spreading

    Microsoft Chairman Bill gates sat down with News.com's Ina Fried to talk about how Microsoft can outflank rivals as software moves to the phone, TV and other devices.

  • Microsoft battles to win over 'sceptical' designers

    Microsoft is far better known for its relationship with developers than with designers but as the software giant begins to step on Adobe's toes with its design tools, it has started hiring "user design evangelists" to help spread the word -- both to the design community as well as within its own campus. One of the first designers to be recruited into this new role was Shane Morris, who joined Microsoft at the start of 2007.

  • Sophos founder claims Apple Macintosh viruses are spreading

    The co-founder of antivirus firm Sophos Dr Jan Hruska claims that the Apple Mac is not a virus free platform

Reviews (185)

  • Six SAN shoot-out

    Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).

  • Lenovo ThinkPad T400s

    The T400s is the lightest 14-inch ThinkPad yet from Lenovo just be ready to pay for the convenience.

  • Microsoft Exchange 2010 beta 1: Review

    There's a lot to like in the first beta of Exchange 2010, from storage improvements to new high availability tools and better integration with the cloud, not to mention Outlook Web Access support for Firefox and Safari. But not everyone will be impressed by the lack of a 32-bit GUI management client.

  • LG Viewty Smart

    It's called the Viewty Smart, but it's definitely not a smartphone. Aside from the decent camera, there's very little to recommend this high-priced mobile.

  • Fusion-io ioDrive (80GB)

    The Fusion-io ioDrive is in a performance field of its own. Home users are much better off RAIDing a few SSDs together; however, for those running servers that need extra throughput now, the Fusion-io represents an expensive, but justifiable saviour.

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