The Australian Federal Police has said that it doesn't intend to take any action against the Melbourne man whose home was the subject of a raid televised on Four Corners earlier this year.
Tensions are rising at UNSW's School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), where a plan by the university to centralise all IT services has met with a hostile response from staff and students.
The NSW Department of Services, Technology and Administration (formerly the Department of Commerce) is currently engaged in a plan to consolidate the State Government's numerous enterprise resource planning (ERP) software platforms into one shared service, according to HP.
Confidential personal information gathered by Victorian government agencies "can be, and has been, easily compromised", according to a report published today by the state's Auditor General.
Microsoft has released a beta of Office 2010 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The beta integrates social network LinkedIn with Outlook, offers a stripped back Excel for browser editing, and video editing tools for PowerPoint.
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was officially released overnight and marked the eleventh release of the distribution. It's attractive, polished and measured, but fails "the grandma test".
We take one of Intel's new 34nm SSD drives for a spin and find it a worthy hard disk replacement, delivering massive speed jumps when loading software. But watch out for a penalty when writing data.
The team behind the Sydney-based maker of mobile games and applications B33hive has sold its business off and is starting again with a new Twitter-based service for television addicts.
Only a few years ago Atlassian and Omnidrive were the flag carriers for Australia's Web 2.0 movement. But recent developments have shown just how different the outcomes for start-up companies and entrepreneurs can be.
Just last week, I was moaning and groaning like a whiny little so and so that SSD hard disks were too expensive. A few massive price cuts later from Intel, and I'm almost a happy man.
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There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.
BMC Software CEO Bob Beauchamp has headed up the company since the beginning of the decade, transforming it into the business service management power it is today. We find out what his priorities are.
Recent commentary in the press around Microsoft's Windows 7 and the upgrade paths available for Windows XP has failed to consider the realities of upgrading and managing both the operating system and application environments required by today's business users.
The footage Four Corners displayed of a suspected Melbourne fraudster's house and technology during a police raid last week hardly fits the profile of a master fraudster.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gives his definition of cloud computing, which is moving information outside of the firewall and putting it on storage systems that are shared with other companies.
At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new...
Linus Torvalds, who was attending Australia's largest Linux Conference, is worried about how patents will affect the future of Linux.
When businesses scaled out their server infrastructure, Dell rode high, but the arrival of virtualisation is hurting its server sales. Despite this, Dell's president, Asia Pacific South, Paul-Henri Ferrand says the world will need more of its servers and storage in the future.
Sending old equipment off for recycling not only helps the environment, it also ensures that 'forgotten' data stored in old storage devices does not find itself in the public domain.
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).
Thecus' N5500 is, like all of Thecus' lines, best suited to the professional user who doesn't mind tweaking the unit to get the most out of it.
It's been a long time between 3G phones, but RIM has finally unveiled the successor to the Bold 9000. This new Bold is smaller, lighter and makes use of an optical trackpad instead of a jogball.
The Extensa is a business laptop with no particular frills. That's not a bad thing per se, but it's tough to get too excited about it, either.
A fascinating development in the rather ragged history of Windows Home Server, HP's StorageWorks X500 Data Vault range has been pointed at the small to medium business.
Google Chrome OS demonstration
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