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  • Microsoft unveils web Office preview

    Microsoft has unveiled a technical preview of its newly christened Microsoft Office Web Apps services.

  • DIAC flags massive outsourcing overhaul

    The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has revealed plans to overhaul its information technology and communications outsourcing contracts, which have been dominated by CSC since 1998.

  • Amazon adds Windows to its cloud

    Amazon has taken its Elastic Compute Cloud service out of beta status and added Windows to Linux and Solaris on its list of supported operating systems.

  • Fujitsu narrows storage focus

    Japanese technology giant Fujitsu has unveiled plans to launch enterprise-grade storage as a service to its Australian customers, although it will cut down the number of hardware vendors it focuses on.

  • Amazon S3: For now at least, sometimes you have to reboot the cloud

    Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service, S3, spent a few hours Sunday in a big pothole on the road to the glorious cloud computing future, with an outage taking the storage system offline for several hours Sunday. Should we be surprised?

Blogs (5)

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    Ubuntu can't cut geek support umbilical

    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".

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    B33hive founders start all over again

    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.

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Memory Box splits up backup headaches

    South Australian distributed backup start-up Memory Box splits up users' data and spreads it in encrypted form across many customers' PCs. But can the company build trust amongst customers who could be worried about their data being stored on other people's hard drives?

  • 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 - Angus Kidman

    Microsoft free space is fine, but what's the cost?

    Microsoft has finally rolled out its online storage service in Australia, but it's definitely worth reading the fine print before you sign up.

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  • Autodesk: Billy Hinners, CIO

    Billy Hinners, CIO of Autodesk speaks to ZDNet Editor-in-chief Dan Farber about creating design software for its eight million customers in the construction, media and manufacturing industries. He also talks about the company's green strategy, his 20 years in product development and transitioning to his new role as CIO.

  • Managing your move into mobility

    With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.

  • Confused about virtualisation?

    After years of relative serenity, storage virtualisation became hot last year. It also became a great deal more complex -- and confusing.

  • Virtualisation climbs up confusion scale

    After years of relative serenity, storage virtualisation became hot last year. It also became a great deal more complex -- and confusing.

  • Sun to expand unusual pricing model

    After being promoted to the No. 2 job at Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz begins spreading his unconventional pricing plans from the software group to the rest of the company.

Reviews (10)

  • Virtual stores

    Can virtualisation help you simplify your storage management? And when will it be ready?

  • Next Windows leaks onto Net

    An early test version of the next major release of Microsoft Windows has been leaked onto the Net, offering a glimpse of the company's plans for the new software.

  • Why laptops shouldn't replace desktops

    Commentary: Many people are choosing to use notebooks instead of desktops as their primary computer. Here's why I think it's a bad idea.

  • Apple pushing for .Mac renewals

    Apple Computer is gearing up for a campaign designed to convince users of its .Mac service to pay for another year.

  • Dell hones blade-server push

    Dell Computer wants a cut of the blade-server market -- the company has announced a new blade-server line, dubbed PowerEdge 1655MC, along with management software to go with it.

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