IBM is buying Transitive, the company behind cross-platform technology used by a range of IT vendors including Apple and IBM itself.
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The pending departure of Jerry Yang from the CEO's chair at Yahoo! brought fresh speculation that Microsoft could launch a fresh bid for the company. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has hosed that one down.
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Get set for a shortage of staff with mainframe expertise as baby
boomers who cut their teeth on big iron cash in their pension cheques
and head off for a life under a palm tree in the sun. The problem is
that mainframe use is still growing, according to a new report.
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Cisco-owned anti-malware provider IronPort Systems has appointed Luke Healey to the role of territory manager, NSW. The company is pointing to newly created role at IronPort’s office within Cisco’s North Sydney head office for Australia and New Zealand as evidence that the company is expanding its operations in the region.
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The managing director of Australia's third largest Internet service
provider has let fly with another tirade against Australian
Communications Minister, Senator Conroy, claiming that the ISP
community are not impressed with him.
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Capgemini, one of the world's largest providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, is to extend its portfolio of outsourced services by offering Amazon Web Services. But what about the deal it announced two years ago to offer Google Apps?
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While cloud computing cops a bashing from some industry pundits, it
could in fact be one of the more important factors in helping
enterprises cope with the economic downturn. This is the belief of a
leading industry analyst.
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Hilary Mine, head of Alcatel for Australasia and North Asia will leave the company for personal reasons before Christmas. She will be replaced by Andrew Butterworth as acting country senior officer for Australasia and by Sean Dolan, based in Hong Kong, as acting regional unit leader responsible for Australasia and North Asia.
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Despite the absence of mandatory data breach reporting, a high proportion of Australian businesses are concerned about the reputational damage that could result from such a breach.
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BigAir has negotiated a deal with 3 to migrate its iBurst wireless broadband customers onto 3's network ahead of the planned closure of the iBurst network on 18 December.
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Microsoft is preparing to phase out Windows Live OneCare in favour of a new, free-of-charge consumer security product.
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Hang on, no, let me read that again. Animal Crossing is coming to the Wii, be there. Nintendo announce the details of Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City. The popular franchise has crossed over to the Wii console.
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Sun Microsystems has announced the availability of its StarOffice 9
productivity suite for Mac OS X. The news comes just one month after
the open source equivalent of the latest StarOffice, OpenOffice 3.0
announced support for the Mac platform.
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One security vendor is warning that next Monday - November 24 - is likely to bring the year's highest incidence of online attacks. Should we batten down the hatches or turn our computers off?
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Retail software specialist Triquestra International has appointed Nicole McKenzie as Head of Global Sales, with responsibility for driving channel sales in markets outside of Australasia, especially in the United States, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
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Yahoo! co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has been walking around with a target on his forehead ever since turning down a Microsoft buyout deal which was worth more than triple the current market value. With the inevitable Yang resignation now a Yahoo! reality, will Microsoft get back into negotiations for the struggling search company?
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SaaS business applications provider NetSuite has launched a price war against SaaS market leader Salesforce.com, declaring openly that it will take over the accounts of Australian and New Zealand Salesforce customers for half the price they now pay.
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Chip market leader Intel has launched the Intel Core i7 processor,
which the company claims is its most advanced desktop processor ever.
The Core i7 processor is the first of the new Nehalem processor designs
and is claimed to boost performance for video editing, immersive games
and other Internet and computer activities by up to 40% without
increasing power consumption.
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Storage solutions provider EMC has announced what it calls a strategic
initiative to grow its services business in Australia and New Zealand,
with the appointment of Gary Cox as head of its global services unit.
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Thanks to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Australia is going
through the hurdles of choosing the technology for a “National
Broadband Network” (NBN), smack bang in the middle of a time when
wireless technology is improving so much that going wired almost seems
like going backwards.
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The Internet today is a 'best effort' service but the IPsphere Forum has been developing a set of specifications that will enable services to be delivered across different interconnected networks with guaranteed grades of service - for a fee - and Telstra is taking part in the first multi-site trial of this framework using technology from Juniper Networks and others.
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Hot on the heels of completing its acquisition of MessageLabs, Symantec
has announced that John W. Thompson, chairman and chief executive
officer, will retire as CEO at the end of the fiscal year. His
replacement will be Enrique T. Salem, Symantec’s current COO.
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At the Adobe Max conference in San Francisco, California, Adobe
announced the availability of a pre-release 64-bit version of their
Flash Player 10 and a full version for mobile devices.
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Most of us get a chance to see Linux in action at the desktop or single server level. Some of us use Linux on mobiles and other little gizmos without even realising that the penguin is doing the lifting.
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Sick of eBay and their PayPal pushing processes? Now there is another new kid on the block setting up a virtual Lemonade Stand. The SOC Exchange is distinguishing itself from eBay by offering a flat fee structure, rather than taking a slice of the seller’s profit.
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