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Hardware

Commentary: Is Windows 7 the tipping point for 64-bit?

By Orestis Bastounis | Nov 9, 2009 | Comment Now

Benefits of the 64-bit version of Windows 7.

Strategy

Opinion: Tapping a rich source of IT innovation

By Martin Courtney | Feb 20, 2009 | Comment Now

IT departments are brimming with smart ideas if only those in management were more inclined to take the time to listen to them.

Hardware

Opinion: Compiling evidence boils down to a matter of time

By John Mitchell | Jan 9, 2009 | Comment Now

IT needs a consistent approach to creating timestamps for forensic computing.

Software

1000 people, police, queue up for Wrath of the Lich King launch

By Kathryn Small | Nov 14, 2008 | Comment Now

So many people turned up to last night’s Sydney launch of Wrath of the Lich King that the police arrived to ask organisers to turn the music down.

Finance

IBM makes a billion here, a billion there

By Sylvie Barak | Oct 18, 2008 | Comment Now

IBM has defied analyst predictions, posting a 20 per cent increase in the third quarter profit over last year, despite poor hardware sales.

Networking

Hadron Collider churns out 15 million Gigs of data a year

By Emma Hughes | Oct 5, 2008 | Comment Now

Three weeks have passed since everyone stood by their clocks wandering if the Large Hadron Collider was going to finish this world off for good - since we all survived it's ...

Hardware

Niue gives a child a laptop

By Nick Farrell | Aug 26, 2008 | Comment Now

The tiny island nation of Niue has become the first nation in the world to issue laptop computers to all of its children.

Hardware

IDC: HP and EDS - a marriage of convenience?

May 20, 2008 | Comment Now

Do opposites really attract? IDC Australia has taken a hard look at what HP's recent acquisition of EDS for US$13.9billion, really means for the Australian outsourcing market.

Hardware

US State Department loses a lot of laptops

By Egan Orion | May 7, 2008 | Comment Now

It has surfaced that the US State Department can't account for up to about 1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department's Anti-Terrorism Assistance ...

Hardware

Experts warn of 'industrialisation' of IT

By Robert Jaques | Apr 10, 2008 | Comment Now

Many organisations are failing to exploit falling prices in products and services that should accompany the commoditisation of IT, according to analysts..

Software

Gartner gives Second Life a dose of virtual reality

By Phil Muncaster | Mar 12, 2008 | Comment Now

Virtual worlds, such as Second Life, might one day be a useful business tool but they are not yet enterprise-ready, analyst group Gartner has warned.

Telco/ISP

IDC: Mobile data services to grow at a rate of more than 50 percent

Feb 15, 2008 | Comment Now

New mobile data services will grow at a rate of more than 50 percent in 2008, according to an IDC review of the performance of Australian Telecom Service Providers in the third ...

Software

Taiwan group guilty of 90 percent of Microsoft piracy

By Simon Burns | Feb 5, 2008 | Comment Now

Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese man was the source of almost all high quality pirated copies of its software up until his arrest in 2004.

Training & Development

IT companies flag $50M of IT opportunities and $250,000 of scholarships for Aussies

Nov 9, 2007 | Comment Now

$50 million worth of Australian IT jobs and $250,000 worth of scholarships are on offer in the next twelve months, a consortium of ICT vendors including IBM, Microsoft, CSC and ...