If you're constantly struggling to convince everyone from your CEO to your own staff that the IT department is much more than a desktop management service provider, you're not alone. The following are two practices that all IT departments should employ.

Billions of years after Apple re-popularised the “all-in-one” desktop PC that’s all screen and no “box”, Toshiba has finally entered the desktop PC market with its own “all-in-one”, presenting it as a digital hub – just like Apple!

How do you use your tablet? New research has found Australian usage is more like that of PCs rather than mobile phones.

The iPad. Few other products have the ability to cause fans to queue up for hours on end, discussing endlessly their colour preference, how many gigabytes they need and that one time they spotted Steve Jobs.

On Tuesday the 18th of January, Intel will launch its new “Sandy Bridge” processors in Australia, followed by AMD on Tuesday the 1st of February, which will do the same with its Fusion “APU” range.

Citrix envisages a future when IT will be highly virtualised and accessed from three broad classes of devices.

The latest version of Parallels Desktop 6 delivers increased performance and additional features to the virtual machine software for Mac OS X. One of those new features is remote access from an iPad.

Canonical just managed to squeeze it in before the end of the month, but the long-awaited latest edition of Ubuntu Linux is now online and available for free download.  

Virtualisation software is especially popular among Mac owners who want the flexibility to run Windows applications without having to restart in a Boot Camp installed operating system. How does Parallels Desktop 5 shape up?

Kingston has added TRIM support to its latest solid state drives and improved performance without increasing prices.