More than 800 developer partners – 20 of which are Australian - have signed up for the APIs which will provide them with access to PayPal’s payments platform, ahead of the official release in San Francisco next month, heralding a blizzard of new online payments applications.  

Australian organisations are invited to respond to an international survey which will identify the trends in software testing and provide what is claimed to be the IT industry’s first comprehensive benchmark in this area of software quality.

- Sponsored Editorial - Robin Heizmann is the Head of IT in France for Credit Suisse and as the Keynote Presenter at this year’s Software and Systems Quality Conference he will talk about the challenges of software development and testing when working within the unique legislation that make up the Swiss Banking Secrecy laws.

Splunk may have a weird sounding name, but don't be fooled. The software has hundreds of thousands of users, each a testament to its ease of use and the time it saves IT administrators, who used to spend many hours troubleshooting.

Unlike previous years when Microsoft has rolled out the big-guns to address the faithful who roll up for Tech.Ed, in 2009 it will be left to the technology itself to take on the starring role as there won’t be a keynote.