Coles parent Wesfarmers yesterday poured cold water on the idea of spending more money on IT for the ailing supermarket chain, saying most new capital expenditure would go towards store refurbishment.
The computer network used by the World Bank Group has suffered a series of at least six intrusions since mid-2007, according to a report.
Unisys West, the Unisys-controlled IT outsourcing joint venture with BankWest, hangs on to its old customer by a thread as the two work towards a final date for complete separation.
Telstra this morning launched a multi-million dollar network operations centre to manage the enterprise networks of 1,100 corporate Telstra customers who have paid for the premium service.
Retail giant Myer has flagged plans to centralise its back-office systems further in what it today described as a "store of the future" initiative.
StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.
It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
There's a standard checklist of items you'll need to include for a datacentre: raised flooring, easy access to redundant power supplies, an air conditioner the size of a small hotel room, but the chances are you don't have a kitchen on there.
Google has always enjoyed being secretive about its largely custom-built data centres, so I imagine there are a few furrowed brows following the widespread reports about its application for a patent to build offshore datacentres, which could draw their power from the ocean waves.
In early October, Melbourne will get its own version of the StartupCamp project that saw three new technology start-ups launched last weekend.
Hung-over this morning? So are thousands of other network engineers and systems administrators who attended the huge party at Cisco's annual Networkers conference in Brisbane last night. We show you the highlights ... *groan*.
Norwegian company Opera Software released the first beta of its 9.6 Opera Web browser last week. We took it for a spin to see how it handled.
Microsoft's annual Tech.Ed conference hit Sydney's Darling Harbour this week. ZDNet.com.au took these photos to show you what you were missing if you couldn't go.
The Apple Mac is one of the most famous and easily recognisable personal computers ever manufactured. This photo gallery takes a look inside Mac Classic -- and what technology was like in 1991.
Firefox 3 aimed for 5 million downloads in the first 24 hours of its release, and smashed all expectations achieving more than 8 million downloads worldwide. This photo gallery takes you inside the new features this recording breaking browser.
At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new...
Software vendor CA plans to move its Melbourne-based antivirus labs to a new facility after exhausting the space and energy resources at its current location -- by consuming as much power as an average metal-welding factory.
Although there are some design quirks, the Samsung Omnia promises to be a solid alternative to Apple's iPhone.
It's a little slimmer and it has loads of storage, but Nokia's latest flagship model has little to justify its top-shelf price tag.
Apple iTunes 8 is the industry standard for multimedia jukebox software and despite the need for a UI overhaul and some liposuction to remove the bloat, iTunes is a solid choice that most users will enjoy.
TC's Touch Pro fixes many of the problems with the Touch Diamond and adds a superb keyboard. It remains neat and compact, while battery life is improved (if still not perfect).
Apple has set the Nano back on track with the thinnest, lightest design yet, and has features that are hard to ignore.
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