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Ballmer rules out new bid for Yahoo
News Microsoft's CEO tells a lunch crowd in Australia that Microsoft is "not interested" in making a new offer for Internet company Yahoo.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Search, Internet advertising, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Australia, Sydney
Why Windows 7 should be free in China
Insight commentary Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Open source, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows 7, Baidu.com Inc., Microsoft Windows, China, Income, Open source
Qantas plans slimmer, friendlier IT dept
News Qantas CTO David Hall's vision for a more streamlined IT department, may save the the airline US$83 million over the next financial year.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IT outsourcing, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, Supplier, Australia, Qantas Airways Ltd., CEO, Fujitsu Ltd., financial
Studios snag Australian piracy victory
News In what is believed to be the first copyright case heard by a jury in Australia, a Sydney store owner is convicted of 15 offenses.
Tags: Piracy, Australia, disc, Sydney, movie, China, director, Piracy
Infosys to hire 100 in Australia
News Indian IT services provider intends to fill out senior and middle-level roles in application development and maintenance.
Tags: Business applications, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Spokesperson, Australia, Sydney, Melbourne, Telstra Corp., financial, Brisbane
iPhone 3G is pretty but anti-social
Blogs I recently bought the Apple iPhone 3G from my local mobile operator, used it for a week and found the iPhone 3G strangel...
Australia's Telstra restricts iPhone supply lines
News The short list of Telstra sites selling the iPhone 3G raises questions about whether the telephone company has received a limited allocation of the device.
Tags: Mac OS, Smart phones, Australia, Stock, Sydney, phone, Melbourne, Telstra Corp., Paul Budde, Apple iPhone
iPhones: The Wi-Fi threat to business security
News A security expert has warned that companies will face new Wi-Fi security threats due to the rising popularity of Apple's iPhone.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi, Security, Mac OS, Smart phones, Australia, Password, Sydney, Wi-Fi, Business Security, Web 2.0
Red Hat: Crisis to boost open source
News The global economic crisis would provide a boost for open source software, Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst claimed during a visit to Sydney this week.
Tags: Open source, Financial, Software licensing, Red Hat Inc., Open-source Software, Sydney, Environment, CIO, software, audit
Microsoft taps RFID for Tech.Ed delegates
News RFID tags will be embedded into badges at the annual conference in Sydney as part of a tracking experiment. Those who opt out will have less access to conference info.
Tags: RFID, Networking, Microsoft Corp., Delegate, Conference, RFID Tag, Australia, software company, Sydney, social networking
Microsoft attacks potential VMWare feature
News Software giant has criticized virtualization rival VMWare for an idea that could see virtualized operating system images patched while they were still running in memory.
Tags: Virtualization, Security, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Attack, software company, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, operating system, Sydney
RIM records all employee calls
News BlackBerry maker Research in Motion concedes it recorded all staff conversations in order to keep control of intellectual property.
Tags: Privacy, Generation Y, RIM BlackBerry, Chief Information Officer, Research In Motion Ltd., Device, Sydney, intellectual property, CIO, internal network
Yahoo offers geographic data to Web sites
News The company opens a database of place names and other geographic data and services for use.
Tags: Web services, Web sites, Web 2.0, Yahoo! Inc., Database, Sydney, blog entry, network, Internet, U.S.
Google Street View goes live in Australia, Japan
News The island nations are now visible through Google Maps' Street View service.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Australia, Europe, 3D, Sydney, Japan, Osaka
Virtualization: The key to a green data center?
News Yes, according to numerous speakers at the Energy Logic symposium in Sydney.
Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, Green IT, Servers, Green IT, Storage, Sydney, Server, power consumption, Direct-Attached Storage
