On 1 February 2008, Microsoft made a US$44.6 billion bid for search giant Yahoo. Follow all the news about the deal with ZDNet.com.au.
Linus Torvalds is the star guest at Australia's annual Linux conference. ZDNet.com.au once again took a video crew to Melbourne in January and caught up with the man behind Linux.
News and video from Gartner's Symposium event, which is being held in Sydney this week.
Internet access and infrastructure have rarely been -- how shall I put it? -- the sexiest of subjects. Yet in this election, it seems politicians are finally realising the power of technology both as a vote winner and a means of communicating with the increasingly tech-savvy electorate. Oh dear ...
update: JetStar's online booking system has melted down for the second time this year after it today released 10,000 one-way seats at AU$1 each.
AT&T won the right to offer the hype-worn iPhone in the US and it looks like Spanish-owned operator O2 will get the same chance in the UK -- now the bets are on for which of the operators will bring the Apple handset to Aussie customers.
Apple's Safari browser is able to display richer, more deeper colours than either Internet Explorer or Opera -- but Firefox is expected to catch up in the next month.
News and video interviews from AusCERT, Australia's premier security conference. Hear from myriad speakers including the Queensland Police, Oracle's chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson, IBM chief security architect Anthony Nadalin, and Microsoft's security chief George Stathakopoulos.
Ubuntu Linux backer hopes its Launchpad site will help open-source projects match Microsoft's collaboration abilities.
Services giant CSC will continue to provide global application services to mining group BHP Billiton, in a two-year, more than AU$100 million extension contract announced today.
Local software vendor Squiz has re-licensed its MySource Matrix tool under the popular GNU General Public License, nearly two years after facing criticism the software's previous licence wasn't open enough.
Townsville Port Authority (TPA) has in the past few months bedded down a new content management system (CMS) implementation, aiming to improve information management and meet government compliance requirements.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) officials have awarded EMC a content management system contract as part of an overhaul of the public broadcaster's Web site.
Australian Taxation Office (ATO) second commissioner Greg Farr said his staff are performing the equivalent of one regular Siebel implementation per week as they keep a case management system deployment on track.
It's been a hectic six months for the Joomla open-source CMS since its split from the Mambo project, but an even busier six weeks lie ahead.
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