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Dell to sell through The Good Guys
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-12-04 17:35:55
Dell is continuing its push into the Australian retail market, announcing a deal with The Good Guys to sell its consumer range of PCs and notebooks through the 87-store chain.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-12-04 17:35:55
Dell is continuing its push into the Australian retail market, announcing a deal with The Good Guys to sell its consumer range of PCs and notebooks through the 87-store chain.
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IT management key to Vegas' flashest hotel rooms
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2008-11-17 16:29:28
When Vegas' new CityCenter resort opens in late 2009, its hotel rooms will contain state-of-the-art technology for customising entertainment, lighting and heating options -- but getting that to happen is only possible because of careful planning and cost management by its IT department.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2008-11-17 16:29:28
When Vegas' new CityCenter resort opens in late 2009, its hotel rooms will contain state-of-the-art technology for customising entertainment, lighting and heating options -- but getting that to happen is only possible because of careful planning and cost management by its IT department.
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Speed, not savings, is key to SaaS
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Outsourcing
2007-11-27 06:16:09
While saving money is often cited as the key driver for adopting software as a service (SaaS), ensuring better performance is often just as big a consideration, according to new research by the Yankee Group.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Outsourcing
2007-11-27 06:16:09
While saving money is often cited as the key driver for adopting software as a service (SaaS), ensuring better performance is often just as big a consideration, according to new research by the Yankee Group.
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HP delivers service automation for AMD, but there’s a catch
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-11-27 04:12:14
Cost savings are often promoted as a major reason for automating systems provisioning, but ensuring compliance can be just as important a goal, according to a senior IT manager at AMD.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-11-27 04:12:14
Cost savings are often promoted as a major reason for automating systems provisioning, but ensuring compliance can be just as important a goal, according to a senior IT manager at AMD.
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If Microsoft can't write drivers for Vista, what hope does anyone else have?
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Transit
Category: Travel technology blog
2007-09-29 04:24:48
If there's one advantage Microsoft's Hardware division should have over everyone else making cameras, mice and keyboards, it would be the ability to write supporting software that worked pretty well with Windows. So it's both annoying and mysterious that the drivers for its latest notebook web cams are proving problematic to the point of being literally unusable with Vista.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Transit
Category: Travel technology blog
2007-09-29 04:24:48
If there's one advantage Microsoft's Hardware division should have over everyone else making cameras, mice and keyboards, it would be the ability to write supporting software that worked pretty well with Windows. So it's both annoying and mysterious that the drivers for its latest notebook web cams are proving problematic to the point of being literally unusable with Vista.
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Virtual environments are processor pigs
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-20 13:33:23
New research has confirmed what many a hard-core gamer already knows: the more realistic the virtual environment you're playing in, the more your processor is getting thrashed.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-20 13:33:23
New research has confirmed what many a hard-core gamer already knows: the more realistic the virtual environment you're playing in, the more your processor is getting thrashed.
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Wintel cold war gets a virtual thaw
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2007-09-20 11:28:44
The sometimes frosty relationship between Microsoft and Intel thawed slightly today, with Intel inviting Microsoft to demonstrate its forthcoming Windows Server 2008 during its developer forum. Hedging its bets, however, Intel was also keen to talk up its increasing commitment to Linux and open source.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2007-09-20 11:28:44
The sometimes frosty relationship between Microsoft and Intel thawed slightly today, with Intel inviting Microsoft to demonstrate its forthcoming Windows Server 2008 during its developer forum. Hedging its bets, however, Intel was also keen to talk up its increasing commitment to Linux and open source.
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Adobe and Ubuntu play nice with Intel's Menlow, but no sign of Microsoft
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-19 12:42:02
Intel's ultra-mobile computing plans for Menlow and Moorestown continue to advance, and the processor giant is talking up partnerships with Ubuntu, Adobe and even Apple as it gets ready for a 2008 release of Menlow-based devices and the eventual appearance of multi-core mobile systems. However, its silent feud with Microsoft doesn't seem to have cooled down much.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-19 12:42:02
Intel's ultra-mobile computing plans for Menlow and Moorestown continue to advance, and the processor giant is talking up partnerships with Ubuntu, Adobe and even Apple as it gets ready for a 2008 release of Menlow-based devices and the eventual appearance of multi-core mobile systems. However, its silent feud with Microsoft doesn't seem to have cooled down much.
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Power management key to thinner Montevina notebooks: Intel
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-19 11:08:25
Promising "way smaller" packaging in its forthcoming Montevina notebook chipset, Intel is staking the creation of smaller and lighter notebooks on improved power management techniques.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-19 11:08:25
Promising "way smaller" packaging in its forthcoming Montevina notebook chipset, Intel is staking the creation of smaller and lighter notebooks on improved power management techniques.
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Intel's Otellini blasts AMD's triple-core approach
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-18 13:10:58
Intel CEO Paul Otellini has attacked rival AMD's plans for a three-core processor, suggesting that the company can't produce reliable enough systems to make such an approach viable.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-18 13:10:58
Intel CEO Paul Otellini has attacked rival AMD's plans for a three-core processor, suggesting that the company can't produce reliable enough systems to make such an approach viable.
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Crash and burn as Pandemic demonstrates Mercenaries 2 at IDF
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2007-09-18 12:00:54
Pandemic's first public display of its upcoming game Mercenaries 2: World In Flames got off to a messy start when the software crashed after just seconds during a demonstration at the Intel Developer Forum.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2007-09-18 12:00:54
Pandemic's first public display of its upcoming game Mercenaries 2: World In Flames got off to a messy start when the software crashed after just seconds during a demonstration at the Intel Developer Forum.
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Intel gets ready for 2009 Nehalem release
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-18 11:24:41
Intel has confirmed a November release for its next-generation Penryn processor, but the company's attention is already largely focused on its successor: the new Nehalem microarchitecture.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-18 11:24:41
Intel has confirmed a November release for its next-generation Penryn processor, but the company's attention is already largely focused on its successor: the new Nehalem microarchitecture.
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Dell tree planting scheme to hit Australia by Christmas
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-09 02:40:33
Dell will roll out its tree planting carbon offset scheme for computer purchasers in Australia by Christmas as part of a bid to enhance its environmental credentials.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-09 02:40:33
Dell will roll out its tree planting carbon offset scheme for computer purchasers in Australia by Christmas as part of a bid to enhance its environmental credentials.
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Dell tree planting scheme to hit Australia by Christmas
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-09 02:40:29
Dell will roll out its tree planting carbon offset scheme for computer purchasers in Australia by Christmas as part of a bid to enhance its environmental credentials.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2007-09-09 02:40:29
Dell will roll out its tree planting carbon offset scheme for computer purchasers in Australia by Christmas as part of a bid to enhance its environmental credentials.
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Microsoft takes fresh shot at on-demand CRM with Dynamics Live
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2007-07-11 09:22:34
Its previous attempts at customer relationship management (CRM) haven't exactly set the world on fire, but Microsoft is continuing to plug away at the CRM market, announcing pricing and product details for its new fully hosted on-demand CRM package.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2007-07-11 09:22:34
Its previous attempts at customer relationship management (CRM) haven't exactly set the world on fire, but Microsoft is continuing to plug away at the CRM market, announcing pricing and product details for its new fully hosted on-demand CRM package.
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Vista and the case of the 85 unsolved problems
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Transit
Category: Travel technology blog
2007-06-13 17:44:55
I've learnt two things about Vista recently: even senior citizens think that it's a rip-off, and its problem-reporting capabilities are yet another example of its 'lipstick on a pig' approach to life.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Transit
Category: Travel technology blog
2007-06-13 17:44:55
I've learnt two things about Vista recently: even senior citizens think that it's a rip-off, and its problem-reporting capabilities are yet another example of its 'lipstick on a pig' approach to life.
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SAP customers warming to NetWeaver
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2007-06-03 23:50:33
It may have taken them the better part of four years, but SAP customers finally appear to be embracing the company's NetWeaver development and integration platform.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2007-06-03 23:50:33
It may have taken them the better part of four years, but SAP customers finally appear to be embracing the company's NetWeaver development and integration platform.
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Facing the full horror of Windows Vista
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Transit
Category: Travel technology blog
2007-05-14 10:04:09
So far, Transit has been using Vista Business full-time for a fortnight. And so far, we've found nothing that works better than in Windows XP, dozens of things that are annoyingly different without being a functional improvement, and several things that work at best intermittently and at worst not at all. On the whole, we wish we'd never moved.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Transit
Category: Travel technology blog
2007-05-14 10:04:09
So far, Transit has been using Vista Business full-time for a fortnight. And so far, we've found nothing that works better than in Windows XP, dozens of things that are annoyingly different without being a functional improvement, and several things that work at best intermittently and at worst not at all. On the whole, we wish we'd never moved.
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XTube sags under weight of own success
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-05-14 09:57:41
YouTube's pornographic rival XTube appears to be suffering from its own popularity, with the video sharing site apologising to users for a spate of bugs..
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-05-14 09:57:41
YouTube's pornographic rival XTube appears to be suffering from its own popularity, with the video sharing site apologising to users for a spate of bugs..
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YouTube porn rival scores 2 million members
Mobile porn gets its own domain name
Porn companies feel online piracy’s pinch - and don't like it
Music and tech searches risker than porn
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eBay expands PayPal buyer protection scheme
Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Commerce
2007-05-08 20:16:58
eBay Australia has put its payment scheme PayPal at the centre of its buyer protection initiatives, doubling the amount it will pay back to customers for dodgy transactions involving a PayPal payment and extending the scheme to low-value transactions and new sellers. At the same time, the auction company's eBay-branded protection scheme will be phased out.
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Written By: Angus Kidman
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Commerce
2007-05-08 20:16:58
eBay Australia has put its payment scheme PayPal at the centre of its buyer protection initiatives, doubling the amount it will pay back to customers for dodgy transactions involving a PayPal payment and extending the scheme to low-value transactions and new sellers. At the same time, the auction company's eBay-branded protection scheme will be phased out.
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