TODAY ON ITNEWS
Hardware
NetApp backs storage guarantee with $1m offer
By
Brett Winterford
| April 06, 2009
NetApp is offering a whopping 50 terabytes of enterprise data storage, worth about $1 million, to an Australian organisation willing to be iTnews' guinea pig in a benchmark test to prove the validity of NetApp's storage virtualisation guarantee.
Telecommunications
OptiComm FTTH rides first home buyers boom
By
Ry Crozier
| April 06, 2009
OptiComm wants five of Australia's top ten ISPs offering retail services on its wholesale fibre network before the end of the year.
Hardware
Ford vehicles to get dashboard PC with mobile broadband
By
Dave Bailey
| April 06, 2009
Ford is to introduce what it claims to be "the world's first broadband-capable in-dash computer system," to selected US models.
Mobility
BlackBerry maker sees strong profit growth
By
Tom Young
| April 06, 2009
Shares in Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) jumped 20 per cent in after-hours trading yesterday after the firm posted strong profits for the fourth quarter of 2009, beating analysts' expectations.
Software
Western Power buys Oracle billing software
By
Staff writers
| April 06, 2009
Western Power has invested in Oracle software to help manage larger volumes of customer information brought about by disaggregation of the electricity market in Western Australia.
Hardware
Western Digital enters solid-state drive market
By
Staff Writers
| April 06, 2009
Western Digital has completed a US$65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems which supplies solid-state drives for the embedded systems market.
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