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  • Firefox 3.0 Smashes Download Records

    Firefox 3.0 is out, and has well and truly broken the five million download record goal, notching up well over eight million downloads in the first 24 hours despite some hefty server problems.

  • One Third of IT Staff Still Snoop

    Once upon a time the IT department had the keys to the kingdom, so to speak. With a job that few others in a given organisation understood, they were free to do as they pleased on the network. While times have changed and far more robust s...

  • Companies Wary of Web 2.0

    According to a new survey of IT decision makers, there is a lot of caution surrounding the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in the workplace, due largely to concerns about security and proper usage.

  • ‘Findability’ Causing Frustration

    In a new study of 500 U.S. businesses, AIIM has found that finding information has become a difficult and time consuming task, with a lack of online search capabilities fingered as a major cause of delays.

  • StoneFly Encrypts IP SAN

    Integrated storage area network (SAN) provider StoneFly has introduced its first high-availability IP SAN with encryption, saying it can help combat the “rising tide of data security breaches.”

  • 64-bit fibre channel storage

    Enhance Technology has released the UltraStor RS16 FS, a dual Fibre Channel 4Gbps storage system boosted by a 64-bit hardware architecture.

  • FineReader speaks more languages

    The latest release of ABBYY’s FineReader 9.0 optical character recognition (OCR) and document conversion application adds support for Chinese (both traditional and simplified), Japanese, Thai and Hebrew languages.

  • IDC Warns of Increasing Power Costs

    Following a groundbreaking study, the analysts at IDC have issued a somewhat alarming warning that the real cost to power and cool the world’s external storage topped US$1 (AU$1.06) billion in 2007, and judging by storage growth and other ...

  • SharePoint adds social networking nous

    The company behind popular desktop and Web-based RSS reading software, NewsGator Technologies, has upgraded its social computing solution for SharePoint Server 2007.

  • Fastest solid state drives in Texas

    Texas Memory Systems has been granted a patent for its Instant-On Input-Output (IO²) technology, which enables instant access to data from a RAM-based Solid State Disk (SSD) after a unit is powered-on.