Tag: makes

Software

Intel's OS for netbooks makes alpha debut

By Sylvie Barak | Feb 2, 2009 | Comment Now

Intel has proved itself to be pretty good at building netbook platforms, so it's decided to have a go at building netbook software too.

Software

OpenSolaris gets snapshot tool

By Daniel Robinson | Dec 15, 2008 | Comment Now

Sun Microsystems has announced availability of the latest OpenSolaris update, which adds a new snapshot feature, boosts performance, and is easier to deploy in data centres, ...

Hardware

Microsoft makes a phone with Nvidia

By Charlie Demerjian | Nov 24, 2008 | Comment Now

What do you get if you take an iPhone, remove the clean UI, user friendliness, nice industrial design, battery life, cachet, functional OS, and in general everything else that ...

Strategy

Mini magnetosphere makes Mars manned missions manageable

By INQUIRER Newsdesk | Nov 6, 2008 | Comment Now

Heading off to Mars has always been seen as the next step in human endeavour in space.

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.

Software

Open Source makes historic UK breakthrough

By Mark Ballard | Sep 23, 2008 | Comment Now

Open Source companies have been granted official permission to supply software to the UK public sector for the first time in British history.

Storage

IBM makes storage push

By Shaun Nichols | Sep 9, 2008 | Comment Now

IBM is outlining its plans for the future of the storage industry.

Security

Security world makes short work of Chrome

By Shaun Nichols | Sep 4, 2008 | Comment Now

Less than two days into its public life, Google's Chrome browser is being put under the microscope by security researchers.

Hardware

Education makes consumers fear nanotech

By Robert Jaques | Jul 17, 2008 | Comment Now

The more information consumers are given about nanotechnology and other emerging sciences the more "worried and cautious" they become, new research reveals.

Telco/ISP

Tomizone makes hotspots available for iPhone/iPod

By Lilia Guan | Jul 4, 2008 | Comment Now

New Zealand-owned Wi-Fi hotspot service provider, Tomizone, has claimed it is one of the first independent Australasian Wi-Fi services to fully support the Apple iPhone.

Security

McKinnon makes last stand against extradition

By Andrew Charlesworth | Jun 17, 2008 | Comment Now

Gary McKinnon, the UK systems administrator who hacked into Nasa and Pentagon computers in 2001 and 2002, is today making a last-ditch bid to avoid extradition to the US..

Storage

IBM makes storage easier, cheaper and greener

Jun 13, 2008 | Comment Now

IBM has released a new version of its storage virtualisation software, System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 4.3, adding that it could improve utilisation rates, energy ...

Hardware

Nanoimprint lithography makes a good impression

By Robert Jaques | May 2, 2008 | Comment Now

Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has given a boost to the emerging microcircuit manufacturing technology known as nanoimprint lithography..

Telco/ISP

ITC makes Vint Cerf an Honorary Freeman

Apr 21, 2008 | Comment Now

Vint Cerf, considered by many to be the 'father of the internet', has been made an Honorary Freeman by the Information Technologists' Company (ITC)..

Training & Development

Google makes first ever job cuts

By Iain Thomson | Apr 5, 2008 | Comment Now

Google has made its first ever redundancies, following its successful acquisition of DoubleClick..

Hardware

Iceland makes play for data centre market

By Iain Thomson | Apr 1, 2008 | Comment Now

Iceland is making a play for the growing offshore data centre market, highlighting its cheap electricity and cool climate..

Software

EA makes a play for Rockstar

Mar 18, 2008 | Comment Now

Video game publisher EA has re-launched an aggressive US$2 billion take-over bid for rival Take-Two Interactive..

Hardware

Sun's petabyte datacentre in a box makes its Aussie debut

By Liz Tay | Dec 19, 2007 | Comment Now

In a bid to tackle the array of data storage issues facing today's IT industry, Sun Microsystems has unveiled a prototype of an eco-friendly, mobile virtualised datacentre in ...