EDITOR'S NOTE

Good Afternoon,

Today on iTnews, Liz Tay heads into the data centre to predict the future of SSD while Shaun Nichols looks at new competitors to Google in the search market.

Our lead story, meanwhile, is a great yarn about what opportunities arise when you identify an underserved niche market for computing - in this case, selling Ubuntu PCs into Australian prisons.

-- Brett Winterford

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Ry Crozier | May 25, 2009

The Alexander Maconochie jail in Canberra will this week deploy 30 more Ubuntu Linux-based computers for prisoner use after a successful first phase.

By Staff writers | May 25, 2009

Telstra has announced it will waive fees and offer free call diversions and cheaper mobile call prices to flood victims in Southern Queensland and Northern NSW.

By Ry Crozier | May 25, 2009

Builders behind the Canberra Technology City data centre development say they will push ahead despite the Federal Government's decision not to consolidate existing data centre facilities into one 'super centre'.

By Liz Tay | May 25, 2009

High costs and economic uncertainty has slowed the growth of enterprise Solid State Drives (SSD) - widely tipped to become "the most disruptive technology" since the invention of the storage array.

By Ry Crozier | May 25, 2009

Safenames has become the first European domain registrar to be accredited in Australia after the regulator auDA upgraded it from provisional to full accreditation.

By Shaun Nichols | May 25, 2009

Can computational search engine Wolfram Alpha or Microsoft's forthcoming 'Kumo' search engine compete with Google's dominance in search?.

By Tiffany Wu | May 25, 2009

If we gave you a million dollars today, where would you invest it?

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