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Sun launches Java platform for businesses

Sun launches Java platform for businesses

Sun Microsystems has launched a new subscription-based Java product designed to offer firms and ISVs a longer support period for releases, and improved access to technology updates.
Phil Muncaster Apr 11 2008 1:57PM Software
Guest Column: Best practices for deploying Vista SP1

Guest Column: Best practices for deploying Vista SP1

Many companies have been waiting for Microsoft to release the first service pack of its latest operating system, Vista, before considering an upgrade to their current desktop operating environment. Vista Service Pack 1 addresses many of the concerns with regards to performance and stability, and application compatibility.
Anthony Stevens Apr 11 2008 1:50PM Software
Vista SP1 ready for push to users

Vista SP1 ready for push to users

Microsoft will begin pushing out Vista SP1 to users via its Automatic Update service this week, following comments made by Bill Gates that suggested the next major Windows version might appear as early as next year.
Daniel Robinson Apr 11 2008 11:55AM Software
Microsoft bites back at Yahoo rejection

Microsoft bites back at Yahoo rejection

In the game of tit for tat going on between Microsoft and Yahoo, the Redmond Giant issued a response late yesterday to Yahoo’s rejection earlier in the week..
Robert Jaques Apr 11 2008 8:00AM Software
IBM buys FilesX

IBM buys FilesX

IBM today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FilesX, a privately held storage software company based in Massachusetts and Israel..
Robert Jaques Apr 11 2008 7:52AM Software
Red Hat leads open source contributions to Linux Kernel

Red Hat leads open source contributions to Linux Kernel

Linux distribution vendor Red Hat has streaked ahead as the leading corporate contributor to the ongoing open source project, the Linux Kernel.
Mitchell Bingemann Apr 10 2008 4:09PM Software
NICTA to receive $45 million from Iemma government

NICTA to receive $45 million from Iemma government

The NSW Government today announced a new five-year funding agreement with NICTA that will provide the research organisation with $25 million from 2007 to 2012.
Liz Tay Apr 10 2008 3:04PM Hardware
Australia’s first Open Source Census published

Australia’s first Open Source Census published

Results of Australia’s first large-scale Open Source community census have been released to the public.
Liz Tay Apr 10 2008 7:40AM Software
Vignette goes social

Vignette goes social

Web content management firm Vignette has announced two new products designed to help firms equip their sites with social computing features and engage better with their customers.
Phil Muncaster Apr 9 2008 4:09PM Software
Workers call for improved search in enterprises

Workers call for improved search in enterprises

A survey by search vendor Sinqua has revealed that workers feel that their employers are providing them with poor quality tools to use when searching enterprise systems.
Rosalie Marshall Apr 9 2008 4:09PM Software
Google releases application development engine

Google releases application development engine

Google is previewing a new service aimed at web application developers. The preview release of the Google App Engine will let developers host, create and run applications as easily as they might create a blog, said the firm.
Staff Writers Apr 9 2008 4:09PM Software
Couples turn to online espionage

Couples turn to online espionage

Research undertaken at Oxford University suggests that an increasing number of people are spying on their partners online..
Iain Thomson Apr 9 2008 1:04PM Software
IBM builds SOA social network

IBM builds SOA social network

IBM has built a social network for anyone interested in service oriented architecture (SOA)..
Andrew Charlesworth Apr 9 2008 7:22AM Software
Blogging may be bad for your health

Blogging may be bad for your health

Some of the blogging community are worried that blogging for a living could be bad for your health..
Iain Thomson Apr 8 2008 3:33PM Software
AIIA backs Swimming Australia in Facebook photo removal

AIIA backs Swimming Australia in Facebook photo removal

Swimming Australia may have copped some flack over the removal of its members' personal photos from popular social networking site Facebook, but according to the AIIA, the sporting organisation was correct in its instructions to the athletes.
Liz Tay Apr 8 2008 2:24PM Software
Yahoo rebuffs Microsoft’s advances, again

Yahoo rebuffs Microsoft’s advances, again

Yahoo has rejected yet another aggressive advance from Microsoft in which the software giant issued a three-week ultimatum: either accept a US$44.6 billion buyout offer or face an ugly proxy battle.
Staff Writers Apr 8 2008 2:17PM Software
ISO approval is mixed blessing

ISO approval is mixed blessing

Microsoft’s success in gaining ISO standard status for its Office Open XML file format is either good or bad news, depending on your point of view.
IT Week Apr 8 2008 1:28PM Software
Infoblox delivers DNS and DHCP for Windows systems

Infoblox delivers DNS and DHCP for Windows systems

Microsoft gold certified partner Infoblox will today announce the launch of its Infoblox IP address management (IPAM) WinConnect system, an application which can run on Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 operating system.
Dave Bailey Apr 8 2008 1:28PM Software
Setting your own agenda at Sydney BarCamp

Setting your own agenda at Sydney BarCamp

Early on Saturday morning, at the BarCamp Sydney conference, a group of people crowded around the conference scheduling board. Most wore jeans and t-shirts, and all nursed take-away coffee. “Who’s speaking first?” asked one of them. “No one so far – why don’t you give a talk?” asked another. A young man carrying a laptop wrote his name and subject matter on an oversized Post-It note and stuck it on the scheduling board. “There – I’ll give the first talk,” he said.
Kathryn Small Apr 8 2008 12:14PM Software
Microsoft Windows 7 two years away

Microsoft Windows 7 two years away

Despite ramping up efforts to improve Vista traction in the marketplace, Microsoft is already preparing for the release of its latest operating software – codename Windows 7 – following an announcement by Bill Gates.
Leanne Mezrani Apr 8 2008 7:56AM Software

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