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  • OSIA says Ballmer is talking bolony

    Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, has had his warning of Linux not really being free given the intellectual-risks thrown back in his face by the director of Open Source Industry Australia, who claims that Microsoft is now running scared.

  • Seagate turns tide of PC performance

    Seagate has released a new hard drive disc, which it claims has the ability to improve the performance of PCs that need to run multimedia applications without draining hard drive resources or the speed of operations.

  • Compliance comforter offered by Symantec

    Information security vendor Symantec has announced several new features in its Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) policy compliance application that enables organisations to effectively manage business risks by identifying threats and measu...

  • Microsoft focuses on biometrics for security

    Bill Gates has warned that passwords used for identity authentication could be a thing of the past, because biometric and smart-card technology evolves into a much more secure form of identification.

  • Grid projects to harness PC power to cure world's ills

    IBM, along with representatives of the world's leading science, education and philanthropic organisations, has launched a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help addre...

  • Cisco looks to SNIA for SAN standards support

    Confidence in the storage market is extremely reliant on the evolution of standards in the industry, so Cisco's news of its Virtual SAN technology receiving recognition by an American standards body is good news for users of its technology.

  • IDC questions reality of utility computing

    The IDC has carried out research that reveals that only seven percent of organisations in Australia are seriously thinking about embracing a utility computing model in the future despite vendors chanting about how valuable their utility se...

  • Criminals gangs plant insiders in banks

    Australian financial companies will have to brace themselves for a new criminal trend that has already hit the U.K. and could catch on over here too if hackers and fraudsters consider it an opportunity too good to miss.