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  • World's smallest storage module for mobiles released

    SanDisk Corporation has introduced SanDisk T-Flash, the world's smallest removable flash memory storage format. It is similar in size and function to embedded flash memory but can also be readily removed and upgraded to allow for a range o...

  • Microsoft Australia vamps up security awareness

    Microsoft Australia are planning to travel around the country in a concerted effort to educate IT professionals on how to increase security in Microsoft systems in the glare of increasing attacks from malicious software codes and viruses.

  • U.S. DoJ to block Oracle's PeopleSoft bid

    In what is a major blow to Oracle's hopes of success in its US$9.4 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced that it will file an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal.

  • Salesforce.com caps great week with two partner deals

    After starting the week by cheerfully announcing that it had cheekily nabbed the acronym representing its industry sector (CRM) as its ticker on the New York Stock Exchange, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) vendor Salesforce.com roun...

  • Dot Hill boosts mid-range offerings with acquisition

    Storage networking systems provider Dot Hill has enhanced its prospects in the mid-range storage market with the acquisition of Chaparral Network Storage, in a cash deal worth around US$62 million (AUD$80.3 million).

  • Hitachi launches 300GB drives for SCSIs

    This first ever 300GB enterprise hard disk drive, the Ultrastar 10K300, has been designed to satisfy the requirements of mission-critical storage systems, such as online transaction processing, data analysis and media streaming.

  • Reith hopes software success is on the cards

    The son of a former government minister, who was famously embroiled in a scandal when he let another of his offspring illegally use his ministerial phone card, with which $50,000 worth of phone calls were subsequently racked up, has return...

  • Controls proposed for virus scare mongering

    An internet security company is in the process of putting forward a code of conduct to the government to prevent exaggerated claims being made over viruses, such as Mydoom, which send fear into the hearts of internet users.