Macquarie Telecom's 'greenfield' data centre site in Fairbairn ACT has been added to the Federal Government's data centre facilities panel, even though Macquarie has not yet committed to building a data centre on the site. Also added is a site owned by Dell at Hume in the ACT.

Worldwide shipments of PCs dropped towards the end of last year as consumer demand slowed. Ultrabooks, introduced to the market in the holiday season, didn’t attract consumers, and the overall decline in PC shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011 was 1.4 percent.

Dell has chosen SUSE as the first Linux distribution available on its Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service.

The Dell XPS 13 appears to be the company's answer to Apple's MacBook Air.

Despite a particularly poor performance, HP remained the leading PC vendor in Australia and New Zealand during 3Q11. Meanwhile, Apple surged into second place according to IDC's latest figures.

Despite a particularly poor performance, HP remained the leading PC vendor in Australia and New Zealand during 3Q11. Meanwhile, Apple surged into second place according to IDC's latest figures.

Global talent management solutions provider, PageUp People has appointed a former Dell Australia executive to the dual roles of chief financial officer and chief operating officer.

Talent management specialist PageUp People has appointed Mark Rice as its chief financial officer and chief operating officer.

Optus is now selling the Dell Streak 7 and Acer Iconia A501 Android based tablets.

Some years ago it came to light that footballs and cricket bats we were buying for our children were made in Pakistan using child labour. The outcry was overwhelming. Now, in our disposable consumer electronics culture, where iPhones are changed every other year, we are forced to confront the reality of the suffering workers in China must endure so that we can enjoy our fancy lifestyle toys.