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  • NetApp sets up shop in Canberra

    Network storage vendor Network Appliance has opened an office in Canberra to support a recently won contract with the Department of Defence.

  • Cotton pickers manage data on the fly

    An innovative software development project to manage cotton-crops has won CSIRO a national information technology award that recognises improvements to the Aussie environment.

  • The fight goes on

    Peter Gordon will continue the fight to prove that British American Tobacco destroyed documents to prevent the company from being sued in court by smokers suffering from cancer.

  • IBM buys Rational for $2bn

    IBM set its hooks deeper into the software market with the purchase of Rational Software for $US2.1 billion in cash – its biggest software acquisition since purchasing Lotus in 1995.

  • Document destruction perverted American justice

    The managing director of Imperial Tobacco Australia, Nick Cannar has been summoned by the US Justice Department to answer allegations that he perverted the course of justice by allegedly destroying documents when he worked as legal counsel ...

  • BAT wins appeal and right to re-trial

    The precedent-setting case of British American Tobacco versus cancer victim Rolah Ann McCabe is to be re-tried; after the Court of Appeal in Melbourne today overturned Justice Geoffrey Eames' judgement against British American Tobacco (BAT).

  • FBI searches Tower for RM solution

    One of the most powerful men in the USA, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Robert Mueller will be using an Australian records management application. TRIM Context from Tower Software has been selected for a small licence deal,...

  • Optus to extend Staffware relationship further

    Optus is extending its two year old relationship with Staffware. The telecommunications provider has just added the iProcess Engine to its existing Staffware business process automation suite and will add further applications in the near future.

  • DiData shakes hands with EMC

    Services company Dimension Data has formalised its relationship with EMC into a global partnership, adding to the trend of service companies waking up to the lucrative nature of storage implementations.