The IDC has reported that businesses in Australia have gone crazy for wireless connectivity since Telstra launched cheap entry-level brands in February 2004, prompting a price ware between Internet Service Providers.
The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, has asked for representatives of the ICT and insurance industries to be more aware about being professional to help the industry flourish.
New technology is now available that claims to be capable of reducing the size of JPEG photographs by 30 percent without losing any of the image quality, which will make it easier to fit more data on to CDs, DVDs and other storage backup media.
Oracle has bought Oblix, a security company that specialises in identity management, and integrates with Oracle's Application Server 10g, to provide a more sophisticated service for fulfilling compliance regulations.
Organisations will have greater visibility over the use of portals throughout the enterprise to analyse data and work out how they can improve their portals to provide better business results, thanks to the release of new software by Plumtree.
Hewlett-Packard has released new products that aim to integrate storage, archiving, filing, search, databases and servers provided by different companies, so that organisations can now deal with one vendor instead of many.
Novell and Veritas have consolidated their relationship by offering new Linux storage management software for a select group of customers in a move that shows that Linux is gathering momentum in the enterprise.
A new online service has been created by Big Blue to help organisations protect, store and retrieve essential data for analysis in the case of an emergency when a disaster or outage occurs.
Oracle has prevailed in its tussle with SAP to acquire Retek, having announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire retail software provider at a price of US$11.25 for each outstanding Retek share – 25 cents a share more th...
