After several months in development, Sun has released the its Open Document Format (ODF) plug-in for Microsoft Office, enabling the ODF standard to be read and written by Microsoft’s software, plus be used as the default format.

Google’s run of acquisitions is continuing this week, with the search juggernaut picking up on-demand communications security and compliance provider Postini. Telcos and VOiP providers beware.

IBM has announced its next generation of virtual tape solutions for its mainframe customers, promising significant enhancements to its IBMR Virtualisation Engine TS7740.

Quantum has unveiled a new disk-based data protection appliance that it reckons is perfectly suited to SMBs and branch offices.

A new study by power management solution provider 1E has found that across the US almost 62.4 million office PCs are left on overnight and during the weekend, wasting a whopping US$1.72 (AU$2.01) billion in power and emitting almost 15 mil...

With Live Earth making headlines around the world, much has been said about the event’s green philosophy and how it can possibly hope to offset its own environmental impact.

The relentless arms race between spammers and security firms rages on, with spammers now using a popular anti-spam technology to punch through filters.

Researchers at the University of Berlin in Germany have worked out a method of data storage that will bump Blu-Ray and HD DVD optical disk storage capacity up to 500GB.

Verbatim is making the jump into the external hard disk market with the purchase of SmartDisk and its hard drive and imaging business.

The Google juggernaut is gathering steam by the day now, not to mention increasingly moving outside its core online business. This was evident again this week with the company picking up VOiP provider GrandCentral Communications for an und...