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Sony reports first profit decline in 14 years

Sony reports first profit decline in 14 years

Sony has joined the growing number of Japanese electronics companies to report large-scale losses, as consumers withhold from buying the latest devices and make do with what they have.
Rosalie Marshall May 15 2009 3:02PM Hardware
AMD break speed barrier with air cooled 1Ghz GPU

AMD break speed barrier with air cooled 1Ghz GPU

AMD says it has reached a new top speed for graphics processing.
Shaun Nichols May 15 2009 2:53PM Hardware
CeBIT09: Centrelink reveals IT impact of stimulus packages

CeBIT09: Centrelink reveals IT impact of stimulus packages

Centrelink had almost 250,000 people log onto its self-service portal on the Monday after the first stimulus package was announced.
Ry Crozier May 14 2009 5:44AM Hardware
Lenovo refreshes netbook lineup

Lenovo refreshes netbook lineup

Lenovo has launched a new model in its line of netbook systems.
Shaun Nichols May 12 2009 1:14PM Hardware
Fujitsu aims for data centres with blade system

Fujitsu aims for data centres with blade system

Fujitsu has unveiled a new server architecture designed to cut costs for enterprise firms through automated power efficiency and management tools.
Daniel Robinson May 12 2009 6:02AM Hardware
Analysis: Supercomputing in the financial crisis

Analysis: Supercomputing in the financial crisis

Supercomputers have always been the cream of the crop, the technology achievement showcase for the vendors and, for some like nearly-defunct Cray and finally-defunct SGI, their bread and butter for decades.
Nebojsa Novakovic May 11 2009 3:34PM Hardware
Pioneer Dreambook M86, the most fully specced laptop we've ever seen

Pioneer Dreambook M86, the most fully specced laptop we've ever seen

Incredibly powerful laptop system at high spec, but you can also opt for a cheaper, lower spec version
Zara Baxter May 11 2009 10:02AM Hardware
Review: Pioneer Dreambook M86, the most fully specced laptop we've ever seen

Review: Pioneer Dreambook M86, the most fully specced laptop we've ever seen

Incredibly powerful laptop system at high spec, but you can also opt for a cheaper, lower spec version
Zara Baxter May 11 2009 10:02AM Hardware
Review: Maxtor Blackarmor 320GB, a USB drive with US-grade military encryption

Review: Maxtor Blackarmor 320GB, a USB drive with US-grade military encryption

The Maxtor Blackarmor has one thing that other USB hard drives don’t - military grade data security in a very stylish package
Alex Bradner May 11 2009 9:59AM Hardware
Maxtor Blackarmor 320GB, a USB drive with US-grade military encryption

Maxtor Blackarmor 320GB, a USB drive with US-grade military encryption

The Maxtor Blackarmor has one thing that other USB hard drives don’t - military grade data security in a very stylish package
Alex Bradner May 11 2009 9:59AM Hardware
Sun shareholders try to block Oracle

Sun shareholders try to block Oracle

Oracle’s acquisition of Sun may not be all plain sailing after all, after Sun shareholders filed three class action suits to block the proposed US$7.4 billion (A$9.73 billion) deal.
Phil Muncaster May 11 2009 6:44AM Hardware
Storm II, cheap Curves coming to Blackberry

Storm II, cheap Curves coming to Blackberry

Research in Motion is working on a new version of the Blackberry Bold that combines a touch screen with a QWERTY keyboard, a low-cost version of the Curve and a successor to the Storm featuring a tactile touch screen, according to sources.
Brett Winterford May 7 2009 3:38AM Hardware
Data centre cut disrupts Western Sydney hospital

Data centre cut disrupts Western Sydney hospital

The Sydney West Area Health Service has confirmed a six-hour outage affected access to Nepean Hospital’s electronic medical record system on Saturday.
Ry Crozier May 6 2009 2:38PM Hardware
IBM unveils CloudBurst SOA appliance

IBM unveils CloudBurst SOA appliance

IBM unveiled a raft of new and updated products at its Impact 2009 conference in Las Vegas, aimed at encouraging enterprise use of cloud-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology.
Madeline Bennett May 6 2009 6:38AM Hardware
Interview: RIM founder and CEO, Mike Lazaridis

Interview: RIM founder and CEO, Mike Lazaridis

RIM co-founder Mike Lazaridis sits down with iTnews editor Brett Winterford to discuss how the Blackberry will survive the onset of new competition.
Brett Winterford May 5 2009 2:26PM Hardware
Netbooks, cloud to be winners this year: IDC

Netbooks, cloud to be winners this year: IDC

Gazing into its crystal ball, analyst International Data Corporation predicts "pockets of opportunity" for the IT industry in an otherwise gloomy outlook this year.
Nate Cochrane May 5 2009 2:18PM Hardware
RIM adds failover to Blackberry Enterprise Server

RIM adds failover to Blackberry Enterprise Server

Research in Motion has announced a new version of Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) that allows carriers and enterprise administrators to failover from one server to another.
Brett Winterford May 5 2009 6:47AM Hardware
Apple pegged for price cuts

Apple pegged for price cuts

Apple is reportedly mulling a new round of price cuts for two of its flagship Macintosh computer models.
Shaun Nichols May 4 2009 1:31PM Hardware
USB device lets PCs run tasks in sleep mode

USB device lets PCs run tasks in sleep mode

Researchers from the University of California and Microsoft have demonstrated a new USB device that will let the user perform basic computing tasks even while their machine is in energy-saving sleep mode.
David Neal May 2 2009 7:25AM Hardware
Asus scores Tassie IT hardware contract

Asus scores Tassie IT hardware contract

Taiwanese PC vendor Asus is in the running for hardware contracts worth over $120 million a year after being added to a list of approved hardware suppliers to Tasmanian Government agencies.
Brett Winterford May 1 2009 3:05PM Hardware

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