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Silver Spring wins two more Vic smart meter projects

Silver Spring wins two more Vic smart meter projects

CitiPower and Powercor will join Jemena and UED in rolling out network infrastructure from U.S.-based Silver Spring as part of the State Government’s smart grid plan.
Ry Crozier Jun 10 2009 12:32PM Hardware
IT budgets fall by five per cent

IT budgets fall by five per cent

IT budgets were cut by nearly five per cent in the first quarter of 2009, with nearly half of IT leaders (46 per cent) having to make changes to their spending plans, according to research by analyst Gartner.
Dave Bailey Jun 9 2009 7:02AM Hardware
HP Elitebook 2530p, a business laptop with a solid 4-5 hours of battery life

HP Elitebook 2530p, a business laptop with a solid 4-5 hours of battery life

Long-lasting battery, enough power to go, and a lightweight design: this has it all in a small package
Zara Baxter Jun 5 2009 1:13PM Hardware
Review: HP Elitebook 2530p, a business laptop with a solid 4-5 hours of battery life

Review: HP Elitebook 2530p, a business laptop with a solid 4-5 hours of battery life

Long-lasting battery, enough power to go, and a lightweight design: this has it all in a small package
Zara Baxter Jun 5 2009 1:13PM Hardware
Microsoft lays out plans for servers and netbooks

Microsoft lays out plans for servers and netbooks

Microsoft OEM head Steve Guggenheimer used his keynote address at Computex in Taiwan today to outline Microsoft’s plans for servers and netbooks.
Iain Thomson Jun 4 2009 1:48PM Hardware
IDC: Australian server market suffers biggest quarterly decline

IDC: Australian server market suffers biggest quarterly decline

The Australian enterprise server market experienced the largest fall on record in Q1 2009, according to IDC's Australia Quarterly Enterprise Server Tracker.
Staff Writers Jun 4 2009 12:05AM Hardware
Defence to replace HP servers with IBM kit

Defence to replace HP servers with IBM kit

The Department of Defence has appointed IBM as its exclusive supplier of x86 blade and rack servers for the next two to four years.
Brett Winterford Jun 3 2009 3:11PM Hardware
Google to launch e-Book store as Amazon readies new Kindle

Google to launch e-Book store as Amazon readies new Kindle

Google will enter the electronic book sales market later this year with a new store that allows publishers to sell e-books online for use on what the company termed 'web-enabled devices.'
Shaun Nichols Jun 3 2009 6:01AM Hardware
HP rolls out flexible screen material

HP rolls out flexible screen material

HP is showing off a new printing system which can place electronic screens on multiple devices as a thin sheet.
Shaun Nichols Jun 3 2009 2:21AM Hardware
Australian Government offers $50m toward bionic eye effort

Australian Government offers $50m toward bionic eye effort

The Australian Government will fund up to $50 million over four years for research into bionic science and technology.
Ben Grubb Jun 2 2009 4:50PM Hardware
AMP allocates $150m to managed IT services

AMP allocates $150m to managed IT services

AMP will spend $150 million on managed infrastructure services from CSC Australia over the next six years.
Staff Writers Jun 2 2009 12:32PM Hardware
AMD introduces six-core Opteron

AMD introduces six-core Opteron

AMD has introduced a six-core version of its Opteron server chip designed for the most demanding data centre workloads.
Daniel Robinson Jun 2 2009 5:45AM Hardware
Dell first quarter earnings crash 63 per cent

Dell first quarter earnings crash 63 per cent

Dell has announced its results for the first quarter of the year and has revealed earnings fell by 63 per cent and business and consumers cut back on purchases.
Iain Thomson May 29 2009 1:49PM Hardware
Scientists invent memory storage good for a billion years

Scientists invent memory storage good for a billion years

Scientists are reporting successful tests of a new memory device that could allow terabytes of data to be stored without corruption for millions of years.
Iain Thomson May 27 2009 2:02PM Hardware
Telstra invites chokehold from enterprise customers

Telstra invites chokehold from enterprise customers

Telstra has used the Sydney leg of its annual enterprise and government executive roadshow to implore customers to hand off more computing responsibility to the carrier, making them your “one throat to choke”.
Ry Crozier May 27 2009 10:38AM Hardware
Russians clone Macs again

Russians clone Macs again

A Russian start-up has started churning out cloned Macs in defiance of legal threats from Apple.
Nick Farrell May 26 2009 4:12PM Hardware
Aussie prisoners escape lock-in with Ubuntu PCs

Aussie prisoners escape lock-in with Ubuntu PCs

The Alexander Maconochie jail in Canberra will this week deploy 30 more Ubuntu Linux-based computers for prisoner use after a successful first phase.
Ry Crozier May 25 2009 2:57PM Hardware
Intel again delays next-generation Itanium chip

Intel again delays next-generation Itanium chip

Intel has once again delayed the release of its next-generation Itanium processor, codenamed Tukwila.
David Neal May 25 2009 6:12AM Hardware
Dell unveils educational Ubuntu netbook

Dell unveils educational Ubuntu netbook

Dell is offering a purpose-built netbook running a choice of Windows or Ubuntu for Aussie school students.
Staff Writers May 19 2009 5:39PM Hardware
NEC abandons Japanese supercomputer project

NEC abandons Japanese supercomputer project

NEC has withdrawn its participation in a Japanese government programme to build a supercomputer.
David Neal May 16 2009 9:22AM Hardware

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