Former Optus executive turned Liberal MP Paul Fletcher has lambasted the latest announced NBN rollout as a cynical exercise in political pork barrelling, with the rollouts allegedly heavily favouring ALP and Greens constituencies.

Microsoft and Toyota have teamed up to work on an Azure-based telematics platform for the carmaker's next generation services.

Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show Volvo has presented its V60 wagon Plug-in Hybrid boasting an impressive green emissions rating and smell-of-an-oily-rag fuel consumption.

Although other hard drive manufacturers have units with 4K sector technology, none have Seagate’s exclusive firmware that eliminates time-wasting software alignment, clocking in with the highest “in-class” performance and faster spin speeds, SATA 6GB compatibility, excellent recyclability and low-power requirements. Looks like it is easy being green!

The latest release of Nav N Go's iGo GPS navigation software features green routing.

Despite being in the midst of a Federal election, Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy took a remarkably non-partisan approach when he opened CA Technology's customer conference in Melbourne this morning.

Changes to the way Microsoft builds its data centres are expected to pay dividends in terms of cutting energy consumption.

Technology provider CSC is looking to attract and retain Generation Y staff with its new centre at Melbourne's Docklands, a senior executive told iTWire. The company is spending $A78 million on the facility.

At this week's RSA Conference in San Francisco, the Cloud Security Alliance announced research into the major security threats that might impact the use of cloud computing.

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.