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  • PC settings mobilised through iPod

    PowerHouse Technologies Group has created a new Migo product which transforms iPods from normal MP3 players into a hard drive that contains all of the personalised computer settings on any PC.

  • US spyware Bill threatens imprisonment

    A new Bill passed in the US this week outlaws spyware and even carries a sentence of five years imprisonment if somebody is found guilty of installing one of these programs under somebody's PC without permission.

  • Email archiving too laborious – study

    Much work needs to be done in the corporate email archiving space to make applications more user-friendly, if the results of a new worldwide survey on how workers are coping with the blow out of email messages they have to routinely deal w...

  • Companies unite to boost online data recovery

    XOsoft and AmeriVault, the provider of online data protection services, have joined forces to offer a new data recovery service that will allow organisation to continuously replicate data to a mobile computer whenever there is an outrage.

  • IBM notebook turned on by one finger

    IBM has released a new notebook ThinkPad computer that has brought science fiction to real life through its ability to be switched on via finger print biometric security technology.

  • McData extends reach with IBM OEM deal

    Storage networking equipment provider McData has signed a new OEM agreement with IBM that will aid the sale and distribution of its manufactured storage fabric switches and directors in Asia-Pacific and Europe, under IBM's TotalStorage brand.

  • Open source thumbs up by Canberra

    A survey conducted by Open Source Industry Australia Limited has received a positive result from Labor, the Democrats and the Greens who are actively supportive of open source procurement, although the Coalition has been silent on the issue.

  • OSIA disputes Windows piracy claim

    Open Source Industry Australia has lashed out at UK Gartner for suggesting that pre-installing Linux on PCs opens the way for pirated copies of Windows to be uploaded illegally.

  • Sacked PeopleSoft CEO "less than honest"

    Former PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway's abrupt sacking last Friday was largely down to the fact that he misled Wall Street analysts about the level of disruption Oracle's bid for the company was having on its business, a PeopleSoft board memb...