Letting staff choose their own preferred mobile platform is "a catastrophe waiting to happen" and will ultimately restrict the ability of businesses to exploit mobile platforms, the security chief at BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion has said.

Australian PDF software developer Nitro PDF is planning on a combination of a 'freemium' software marketing plan and an expanded channel presence to help it eat into Adobe's dominant market share for PDF creation and management software.

Two Australians will join the advisory board for the world's major data centre user organisation as it looks to expand its activities down under.

On-demand CRM vendor RightNow is expanding the range of social networks its software can interact with in a bid to help companies avoid embarrassing experiences like Southwest's recent run-in with film maker Kevin Smith.

The Australian Taxation Office says it is making good progress on its biggest systems upgrade in 30 years, but 300,000 delayed tax returns still hang in the balance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.