EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

It looks like ICT has a new 'fan' within Federal parliament.

Finance minister Lindsay Tanner yesterday outlined a bunch of technologies, including the recently implemented Telepresence system, as examples of how the Government intends to use technology to improve productivity.

Hearing our publicly elected officials speak so highly of tech will undoubtedly please a lot of industry types. Leads one to think we'll be seeing a lot more of Mr. Tanner on the ICT industry speaking circuit...

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | March 12, 2009

Australia's IT and Communications industry has an ally in Federal Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner, if his speech today on productivity is any indication.

By Miya Knights | March 12, 2009

Rumours throughout Silicon Valley that Oracle has issued a letter of intent to purchase Virtual Iron have refused to die down.

By Ian Williams | March 12, 2009

PC maker Lenovo has been served with several enforcement actions in the US and Germany for allegedly infringing on patents covering the Mpeg-2 digital video compression standard.

By Iain Thomson | March 12, 2009

Sun Microsystems is hoping that its new range of solid state drives (SSDs) will lead the way in re-engineering the data centre around Flash drive technology.

By Daniel Robinson | March 12, 2009

Apple Mac deployment is on the rise in businesses, according to a survey by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA), a group of vendors collaborating to better integrate Mac systems with Windows-based corporate infrastructures.

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