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HP applies a firehose to virtualization with new technologies - iTWire podcast 4 minutes ago
HP Asia Pacific has announced breakthrough networking, storage and server products that reduce costs, increase bandwidth flexibility and improve overall performance of virtual server environments. HP's Raymond Maisano, BladeSystem ...
Major projects beckon in 2009 says Finite 40 minutes ago
While a number of pundits are talking doom and gloom about jobs because of the economic downturn, the message from one of Australia's largest IT recruiters is surprisingly upbeat. Finite IT Recruitment says a number of huge projects ...
Ballmer set to do Monkey Dance in court? 2 hours ago
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been ordered to testify in the “Vista Capable” court case after Microsoft failed to convince the judge that Ballmer didn't know enough about the details. if(typeof(ffxAds)=="undefined")var ...
Do you want a naked woman with that? 3 hours ago
Ever taken sexy snaps with your mobile phone camera? Ever left your mobile phone in McDonalds? One guy learns the hard way that the two do not mix. Be it a naked Paris Hilton or claims that someone has a naked video of you exposed ...
Mobile industry recession proof in the US 4 hours ago
While the US appears to be headed for the worst economic recession in decades, the mobile telecommunications industry appears to be immune, according to the latest research. In fact, according to communications industry analyst firm ...
IE8 due mid 2009 – but will you use it? 11 hours ago
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 browser, currently in beta 2, is due to receive a release candidate in early 2009, with the final release planned “after that”. With the popularity of Firefox and the emergence of Google's ...
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IBM Lotus Notes Traveler support announced for Nokia S60 3rd edition mobile phones 11 hours ago
IBM and Nokia have just announced that Lotus Notes Traveler is extended to support a range of S60-based Nokia mobile phones — those built on S60 third edition of the Symbian OS — thus providing a major alternative to Windows ...
Why ISPs can't afford to let iiNet lose the piracy lawsuit 12 hours ago
If iiNet loses the piracy lawsuit, the ramifications for all Australian ISPs will be immense, forcing all to spy on their users and become online policemen. It will wipe out online privacy, slow down the Internet, impede the free ...
IBM'S C2S2 Project - Computer of the future based on brain insights 14 hours ago
IBM Research and five leading universities are partnering to create computing systems that are expected to simulate and emulate the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition while rivaling its ...
Aiptek's pocket cinema fails to impress 14 hours ago
If only this worked it could have been the year's must-have Christmas gift for the gadget lover or the hard-to-buy-for. I'm talking about a pocket projector which on paper sounds brilliant: a tiny, battery operated, portable 10 lumens ...
ABC childcare sell-off looms 21 hours ago
ABC Learning sale "a foregone conculsion" Independent operators interested Ailing centres could be bargains INDEPENDENT childcare operators are eyeing several centres of the failed ABC Learning, which will likely be put on the market ...
Quiksilver dumps sponsorships 21 hours ago
SURFWEAR giant Quiksilver has shed Australia-wide surfing sponsorships to tighten its belt as its US share price dipped below $US1 on Friday. But the company is committed to staging Australia's largest professional surfing event, ...
Einstein proven to be a pretty smart guy 21 hours ago
European physicists confirm that Albert Einstein's mass-energy equivalence equation is correct using super-fast supercomputers. Does this mean that Einstein is equivalent to a supercomputer? if(typeof(ffxAds)=="undefined")var ffxAds ...
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NASA fires successfully Orion abort motor 22 hours ago
The Orion team at NASA successfully tested for the first time its abort motor, which will be used in case the crew encounters an emergengy during launch of its Orion crew exploration vehicle. The major milestone brings the U.S. manned ...
How to save cash and stress this Christmas 23 hours ago
IT is well known that Christmas can place stress on relationships and waistlines. But with the festive season only a month away, there is still time to implement strategies to make sure it does not stress your wallet. So in the spirit ...
Rally on Obama's treasury pick 23 hours ago
THE Australian sharemarket should open higher tomorrow after Wall St staged a big rally on Friday night. The surge was triggered by reports US president-elect Barack Obama plans to appoint New York Federal Reserve Bank chief Timothy ...
Women have no financal plan 1 day ago
A THIRD of Queensland women have no long-term personal financial plan and most prefer not to talk about it when among friends. Many say it would take a life-changing event, such as the death of a partner or job loss, to review their ...
Second Suicide as Google drops bomb on Lively avatars 1 day ago
When Google launched a real time interactive 3D avatar world called Lively it promised the ability to express yourself in a more fun way. So why is it now dropping a bomb on Lively users by committing Second Suicide? Back in July, ...
General Motors 'considering bankruptcy' 1 day ago
THE board of directors of embattled US carmaker General Motors is considering "all options" including bankruptcy, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal website. The paper, citing people familiar with the board's thinking, ...
Wall St rallies over new Treasury chief 1 day ago
WALL Street staged a strong late rally overnight as traders cheered reports New York Federal Reserve chief Timothy Geithner would be named the next Treasury secretary. The Dow Jones Industrial Average vaulted 494.13 points (6.54 per ...
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Useful Tools for Windows, Part 3 - Protect your laptop, and data on your USB keys 1 day ago
Here are two free Windows utilities worth trying. The first can help protect your laptop from theft, and the other will hide data (up to 1 GB) on your USB keys from prying eyes. if(typeof(ffxAds)=="undefined")var ffxAds = []; var ...
Windows start-up and shutdown times result in lawsuits 2 days ago
Windows takes so long to boot up and shut down that some employers have started cutting pay for the 15 to 30 minutes that employees take to boot up their workstations at the start of the day and then shut them down when their ...
Reckless talk about spending 2 days ago
IT was the defining moment of the election campaign. Kevin Rudd, addressing the party faithful in Brisbane's Playhouse Theatre, declared: "This sort of reckless spending must stop!" Two days earlier, John Howard had unveiled $9.4 ...
Wall Street in late rebound 2 days ago
WALL Street staged a stunning late rebound in another tumultuous day for global markets that saw heavy losses in Europe. US markets had been wobbling after two days of brutal selling that erased some 10 per cent from the main indexes, ...
GCAP08: Future trends in games – bye-bye hard-core? 2 days ago
Having attended a number of presentations over the past three days at Game Connect Asia, there are some trends emerging in the game development industry, with a focus on garnering future markets. In many ways traditional hard-core ...
SERVIR now in Africa to help with diseases, disasters 2 days ago
NASA and USAID have expanded their global information system, called SERVIR, into Africa in order to provide African countries with previously inaccessible information on such national concerns as natural disasters, disease outbreaks, ...
Directors' buying spree saves the day 2 days ago
OZ Minerals' embattled directors snapped up cheap shares in the company yesterday in a bid to halt its plummeting share price. And it did the trick. The new mining company's CEO Andrew Michelmore spent almost $30,000 in a series of ...
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Richest feel $20bn worth of paper pain 2 days ago
Australia's richest suffer big losses Packer, Forrest, Harvey all hit hard Losses on paper total $20bn AUSTRALIA'S richest businesspeople have seen $20 billion stripped from their stock market wealth over the past six months. Fortescue ...
Wall St rebounds after horror days 2 days ago
US shares swung higher at the opening on Friday, staging a modest rebound after two days of vicious selling that pushed the main indexes to multi-year lows. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 131.10 points or 1.74 per cent to ...