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  • Brisbane web hosting firm in world top ten

    Hosting Oz, a Brisbane based Internet web hosting firm, has been voted as one of the ten best hosting companies in the world, beating competition from United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.

  • Microsoft offers free software carrot in piracy battle

    In order to encourage customers to verify that they possess a genuine copy of Windows, Microsoft is offering a free copy of the latest version of its software that allows users to create photo slideshows set to music or narration.

  • Speedscan firms up archiving strength in Australia

    Speedscan has created a new alliance with Mobius Management Systems to offer new web-based archiving and retrieving capabilities to Australian companies that need to unite repositories, meet compliance requirements and automate business processes.

  • Google search not fit for businesses

    Google's new free search application for the desktop has been described as a consumer product which does not have the ability to meet business demands by ISYS, which offers its own search software for the desktop for a fee.

  • Ballmer's open letter takes aim at Linux

    In the latest executive email to be posted on its public website, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has used the soapbox to explain why Windows is better value for money than Linux.

  • Companies need to take risks with RFID

    The recent signing of the alliance between VeriSign and EAN Australia to use standards to identify any RFID tagged product in the world through a database is another significant sign that the RFID industry is about to take off in Australia...

  • Speech industry gets its own voice in ANZ

    Speech recognition technology vendors and their customers now have a platform to discuss the future direction of the industry in Australia and New Zealand, with the launch of the Speech Industry Council (SIC).

  • HP simplifies storage by playing name game

    HP has moved to ease customer identification of the right HP NAS offering for them by renaming their NAS appliances so that they carry the same name as the HP servers on which they are based.

  • Huge hard drive growth with portable devices

    A recent report has revealed that hard drives are set to be used more commonly inside homes as makers of consumer electronics, such as personal video recorders and music players have been buying drives for their products.

  • EMC embraces new super fast Xeon

    Intel had launched a new improved Xeon for embedded storage systems that can handle 64-bit computing to allow OEMs, such as EMC and HP to provide faster storage services.