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  • Altium NASA Deal Highlights ICT Skills Shortage

    Australian’s Altium, developer of unified electronic product development software, has just secured a significant deal with the US space agency NASA that not only gives the company another important win, but also highlights support issues ...

  • Business and IT Units to Clash?

    According to new research from Gartner, IT leaders must consider alternative ways of delivering, packaging and procuring technology or risk being bypassed by business units.

  • Bitmicro Releases 416GB SSD Drive

    Bitmicro Networks has released a new solid state drive (SSD) this week, announcing a new addition to its intelligent flash IDE/ATA, SCSI, and Fibre Channel SSD line up, the 416GB E-Disk Altima.

  • IBM Acquires NovusCG

    In the land of acquisitions this week, IBM has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to take over the US’s NovusCG, a privately held data storage specialist that will help boost its compliance offerings.

  • The Last Supper Goes Online with 16B Pixels

    In an extraordinary imaging feat, Museum officials in Milan brought Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece “The Last Supper” online over the weekend, and did so with an astonishing resolution of 16 billion pixels.

  • Microsoft Posts Monster Quarter While Vista Slips

    Microsoft has been thumping its chest and sounding the trumpets after recording the fastest growing first quarter results since 1999, yet the software giant has experienced a decline in Vista sales.

  • US Still Number One for Spam

    According to the security firm Sophos, the US has held on to its position as the world’s top spammer despite increasing arrests and convictions of known spammers.

  • Leopard Leaves Virgins Stranded

    Apple’s latest lovechild, the Leopard Operating system has left users of Virgin’s mobile broadband offering out in the cold as the service runs into compatibility issues.

  • Mozilla Pockets Almost AU$49M Profit for 2006

    The Mozilla Foundation and its for-profit subsidiary Mozilla Corp., best known for Firefox and other popular open source applications, released its 2006 revenue statement on Monday, showing that even freely distributed open source software...