Führende Hersteller von Mobiltelefonen haben sich zur Open Mobile Linux Platform zusammengeschlossen. Diese soll eine Linux-basierte Softwareplattform entwickeln und eine Test-Suite zum Qualitätsmanagment. Besonderen Focus hat man auf das schnelle und reibungslose Zusammenspiel zwischen Hard- und Software gelegt. …mehr
Gut, dass das neue Handy Bluetooth unterstützt, dann kann man ja Bilder drahtlos an den PC schicken. Schade, dass das nur funktioniert, wenn sowohl USB-Dongle als auch Handy sich miteinander verstehen. Die Bluetooth-typischen Anwendungsfälle werden ab sofort mit entsprechenden Icons auf den Verpackungen gekennzeichnet. …mehr
The Australian Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) has selected U.S.-based identity management vendor Viisage to supply RFID (radio frequency identification) electronic document readers for Australia's e-passports. …mehr
Special Minister of State Gary Nairn has expressed disappointment at the findings of a report into Internet security by Australia's National Audit Office (ANOA). …mehr
Alcatel has increased the IP-based features in the latest version of its OmniPCX Office server. …mehr
Hewlett-Packard Co. Wednesday revamped its BladeSystem with a new architecture that improves the management and virtualization capabilities of its blades and incorporates some of the technology capabilities used in its NonStop fault-tolerant servers. …mehr
Platform dominance is the pat explanation often given for Microsoft Corp.'s steel-like grip on the throat of today's enterprise IT. After all, if you control the technology from the Web browsers on their desktops down to the OS on their servers, there's not a lot of room for competitors to slip in and stake out territory of any size. Given the strength of the approach, it's no surprise to see Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Red Hat Inc. now trying to imbue their firms' with a similar vertical coherence. …mehr
RedRoller.com, a Web site that offers comparison shopping of shipping services for small businesses, online retailers and consumers, launched Thursday. …mehr
In today's networked enterprise, development managers can easily harness resources from any location. Collaborative development platforms allow developers -- scattered around company locations, working from home, or with partner organizations -- to contribute to projects the same way they would from a central site. …mehr
If your job is a daily fight against time to save lives, the vagaries of a storage system should not get in your way. This is the problem that Dr. Parag Mallick faced at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Applied Molecular Medicine in Los Angeles, where he is the director of proteomics for the research division of the hospital. The solution Cedars-Sinai chose was clustered NAS. …mehr
Mobile data communication will dominate failing voice technology, according to a recent survey. …mehr
The Oregon Department of Revenue has been contacting some 2,300 taxpayers this week to notify them that their names, addresses or Social Security numbers may have been stolen by a Trojan horse program downloaded accidentally by a former worker who was surfing pornographic sites while at work in January. …mehr
Microsoft's planned Atlas framework for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) faces difficulty with its development, but promises to be a topnotch offering for the trendy Web scripting technique, a moderator of a TechEd 2006 session said on Wednesday. …mehr
An improperly composed mass e-mail sent Thursday by open-source database vendor MySQL AB erroneously included some 9,300 customer e-mail addresses in the body of the note -- not the information about a series of summer support specials the company meant to announce. …mehr
Microsoft Corp. is officially handing its future to Ray Ozzie, who is replacing Bill Gates as the company's chief software architect. Over the next two years, Gates will be giving up his responsibilities to Ozzie and Craig Mundie. But it's Ozzie who gets the role of chief software architect (CSA), the most significant of the jobs Gates is relinquishing. …mehr
Chief concerns for Australian chief executive officers (CEOs) in the medium term is managing structural change and identifying strategic partnerships, according to an IBM Corp. survey. …mehr
Embedding business intelligence (BI) into operational processes can help workers make better decisions, but such IT initiatives must be focused on an area that will show a significant return on investment and be designed with business users. …mehr
I don't know anyone who enjoys receiving faxes advertising computer peripherals, or appreciates evening telephone calls offering great deals on carpets. Not to mention the interruption of a candlelit dinner by a prerecorded mobile phone message in squawking Cantonese. And then there's the email spam. …mehr
Linux Australia and the Open Source Industry Association today urged the Australian federal government not to abandon market competition. …mehr
For the forthcoming SLED (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10, Novell went back to the drawing board to rethink what makes a good desktop. The result is extremely impressive. …mehr
Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates plans to move away from overseeing his company's day-to-day operations in July 2008 to spend more time working with his foundation. …mehr
New rules for electronic discovery of documents in civil cases go into effect in December -- and they could cost users millions or even billions of dollars if they fail to comply. …mehr
Smart Communications Inc. said there was nothing illegal in the granting of its license to operate 3G (third-generation) mobile services by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), according to a statement issued by the mobile operator. …mehr
It appears that there's been lots of Linux activity in Utah lately: Novell's SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server) 10 is a much different distribution than SLES 9, from stem to stern. …mehr
Does a day go by in which there are no stories about millions of confidential records stolen or lost? …mehr
In the increasingly federated, network-based IT environment, perimeter security is important but not sufficient by itself to protect a company's secrets, warns Mike Rothman, president and principal analyst of Security Incite and former Meta Group Inc. security analyst. …mehr
Six months after stepping down as president of the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) to run for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Virginia, Harris Miller said Wednesday that he has "no regrets" after losing the race Tuesday in a tough, close vote. …mehr
The Australian Service Providers Association, SPAN, is pushing for the rise of "preferential handling" of Internet traffic, as opposed to today's approach of first-come, first-served. …mehr
If clustered NAS is the way to go, why do traditional NAS systems still account for the majority of deployments? …mehr
