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  • IBM Brings Grid Computing to Food Crisis

    Cloud computing is working wonders in the world of medical research and astronomy, and as more computing power comes online IBM is working to open the power of the grid to humanitarian causes such as the food crisis.

  • Microsoft to Re-Badge Live Search?

    With its surprise bid to snatch Yahoo! now in the can, Microsoft’s search team is looking for ways to improve its image and make it more competitive.

  • Website Outage Costs Amazon.com Dearly

    An outage experienced by the world’s foremost online retailer has highlighted the drastic impact some server downtime can have on business, with the company potentially losing upwards of US$1.8 (AU$1.88) million during over 2 hours.

  • IBM Launches Free Productivity Suite

    While it’s market share is slowly eroded by open open source alternatives such as OpenOffice and StarOffice, Microsoft Office is now face with another challenger in the form of IBM’s Lotus Symphony.

  • SSD Market Experiencing Strong Growth

    IDC has reported strong growth in the worldwide solid state disk (SSD) market, claiming that market momentum has driven factory revenues to 10.8 percent year-on-year growth in Q1, 2008.

  • AIIA Heralds Hardware Recycling Program

    In honour of World Environment Day, Byteback, a free computer take-back program currently being trialled in Victoria, has announced a new collaboration with Officeworks that will see the opening of Byteback collection sites at two Victoria...

  • Hard Drive Demand to Keep Growing

    As the world’s appetite for digital storage capacity exponentially expands, the analysts at IDC have made the astute observation that demand for HDDs will continue to grow.

  • Nexsan Greens SANs

    Nexsan is attempting to clean up the storage market’s environmental credentials, announcing the industry’s first green SAS storage solution with MAID 2.0.