A private messages services has been created by eBay in Australia, specifically for eBay members to provide a much more secure environment for them to exchange messages securely, free from false phishing emails.

The University of South Australia has incorporated a new online portal that aims to help students manage their time better so that they can be better organised and therefore perform better with their courses.

Oracle Corporation has announced that 5,000 people will be made redundant at the organisation, following the recent integration of PeopleSoft into its 50,000 people workforce.

Networking vendor Cisco Systems has moved to broaden its wireless local area networking (WLAN) capabilities with the acquisition of WLAN systems provider Airespace.

Google has released a new box aimed at helping smaller businesses to find critical documents stored inside each company's internal systems, with the ability to search up to 50,000 documents.

Apple has provided a welcome solution for Cisco's litigation archive through the use of Apple's new Xsan file system and Xserve RAID storage subsystem to archive the company's global email communications for compliance requirements.

Information capture specialists Dicom Group's subsidiary Kofax has signed an agreement with Adobe Systems to integrate Adobe's LiveCycle Barcoded Forms into Kofax's Ascent Capture platform. The combined solution will enable companies, gove...

Disk storage vendor Seagate has made available the latest in its range of notebook hard drives – the Momentus 5400.2 hard drive – to whitebook builders in Australia. The drive has a capacity of up to 100GB and areal density of 50GB per disk.

IBM has opened up access to 500 IBM of its 10,000 software patents to people working on open source software for free in an attempt to boost the industry and encourage new inventions.

A Sydney-based recycling firm has issued a plea for the Australian government to do more to reduce the amount of unwanted computer equipment that is sent straight to landfill.