With the federal election just around the corner, Communications Minister, Helen Coonan and her Labor counterpart, Senator Stephen Conroy have exchanged blows in a salvo of attacks on their opposing broadband plans.
Popular internet telephone provider, Skype’s partnership with the social network Myspace has been the talk of the town, but it comes as Facebook continues to record yet another week of record growth.
Three of Australia’s largest information management providers have found themselves in three-way battle that’s seen TechnologyOne announce its acquisition of Avand and Avand announce it’s taken legal action against Objective Corporation.
IBM has rolled out a bunch of new software this week, significantly expanding its data management portfolio and speeding up deployment of business intelligence applications.
Australia’s latest Political Party to run for Senate is marking itself as a world-first; If elected, ‘Senator On-line’ will vote on legislation only in accordance with the majority of registered voters who voice their opinions online.
Plasmon has just released its new Archive File Manager, addressing challenges it perceived growing out of file and backup management issues with an automatic data migration solution.
Hitachi is making waves this week, announcing that it has achieved a significant nanotechnology milestone and potentially quadrupled hard disk storage capabilities with a new teeny-tiny read head.
While Australia disappears into election fever the Swiss are getting set to employ a new “unbreakable” method of quantum cryptography to secure voting results in their own upcoming elections.
In a bid to meet growing storage requirements at the small end of town, Hitachi Data Systems has announced its first foray into the small to medium sized business (SMB) market with the launch of the SMS 100.
Application delivery infrastructure provider Citrix Systems has added on-demand provisioning of virtual servers to its arsenal, enabling the streaming of data centre and desktop operation systems.
