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  • Gartner Symposium 2007: Complete coverage

    News and video from Gartner's Symposium event, which is being held in Sydney this week.

  • Intel, STMicro to form new flash company

    Intel, STMicroelectronics and private equity firm Francisco Partners plan to form an independent flash memory company in Switzerland, the companies said on Tuesday.

  • Leaked memo exposes Dell's plans

    Dell is to consider selling PCs through a reseller channel, breaking the direct sales model which has seen it become one of the world's top two computer vendors.

  • Leasing hardware: Options and benefits

    Most organisations finance hardware without analysing all the economic implications. Understand how a lease will affect the business unit involved, as well as the whole organisation.

  • Gartner: Consolidation to put squeeze on businesses

    As a few hardware and software suppliers come to increasingly dominate, companies must use caution, Gartner advises.

  • Compaq turns on new services initiative

    Following Alpha's demise, Compaq pushes its services division onward--but it continues to be battle the conception that it's strictly a hardware maker.

  • Optima shut down, assets auctioned off

    The remnants of Australian PC maker Optima ICM have been auctioned at trading website Grays Online, but some equipment has been reserved to repay customers that are owed outstanding warranties from the failed company.

  • Monash revamps IT support arm

    Melbourne's Monash University has revealed plans to overhaul and beef up its information technology support division, with the creation of an over-arching chief information officer position and the launch of a new shared services strategy.

  • Layoffs hit UXC

    ASX-listed IT services firm UXC last week laid off around a dozen employees due to fears that current contracts would be deferred.

  • Sensor network tests get real at Wollongong Uni

    Motorola has agreed to provide the University of Wollongong with hardware that will bring its theoretical research on wireless sensor networks into the real world.

  • Scott Charney: Microsoft's security chief reveals all

    Shortly after the 9/11 bombings, Microsoft hired Scott Charney, a federal prosecutor for the US justice Department, to head up its Trustworthy Computing division. At AusCERT 2008, ZDNet.com.au caught up with Charney to hear his thoughts on how those events changed the security landscape and what he thinks about the current state of IT security.

  • Kalgoorlie mine finds network redundancy gold

    Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines has revamped its data network, replacing Cisco with Nortel in a quest to minimise downtime.

  • Windows chief opens up on '7'

    Since taking over the Windows development reins from Jim Allchin, Steven Sinofsky has chosen to keep silent about new products, but now in an exclusive interview, he spills the beans on Windows 7.

  • Suncorp takes 'agile' leaf from Apple's book

    Suncorp has announced it will save AU$53 million per annum through integrating Promina's business technology with its own, helped by an "agile" approach said to be used in companies such as Apple and Google.

  • NAB gives staff final word on IT jobs offshoring

    NAB yesterday told its employees which of its IT jobs will be offshored, after the bank took the decision to outsource some of its tech staff last year.

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