Search giant Google on Tuesday pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make renewable energy cheaper than coal.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.
Cloud computing, the notion of outsourcing hardware and software to Internet service providers, is showing the classic signs of disruptive technology -- it's not good enough for the masses yet, but it has clear potential to shake things up.
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At a summit in Canada next week, Linux developers will meet to discuss ways of improving Linux's power management capabilities.
Online property listing group realestate.com.au is examining a range of IT initiatives to ensure its Web sites can cope with the company's expansion into international markets.
Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster.
Google has joined SingTel and four other carriers to build a new high bandwidth submarine cable system between the US and Japan, in a move to address its broadband capacity needs.
Google's recent foray into business applications has already attracted more than 1,000 small businesses in Australia, according to the search giant's vice president for enterprise, Dave Girouard.
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.
At this week's South By Southwest Interactive Festival, Facebook founder and world's youngest rich list entrant, Mark Zuckerberg, sat down with Caroline McCarthy of ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com to talk about PayPal, pestering applications and press hysteria.
The search giant has committed to becoming more environmentally friendly and has enlisted the help of a green group to meet its target.
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Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie doesn't necessarily think Google has all the answers, but he does credit the company for opening Microsoft's eyes.
Microsoft yesterday officially launched the online versions of its Exchange and SharePoint software platforms, but only to businesses in the United States for now.
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