Minolta and Canon fight it out on the shelf
Minolta QMS and Canon are engaged in a price war after Minolta announced an attempt to kill off inkjet printer sales by the release of its sub-$2,000 laser machine next Monday.
Minolta QMS and Canon are engaged in a price war after Minolta announced an attempt to kill off inkjet printer sales by the release of its sub-$2,000 laser machine next Monday.
Rumours are circulating that "a number of large banks and a major telco" are actively evaluating Sun's new desktop suite, StarOffice 6.0, as an alternative to Microsoft Office XP.
Virtual Communities has purchased AustarMetro, Austar's metropolitan Internet business, for an undisclosed sum, picking up more than 21,000 customers in the process.
Dicker Data is flirting with the prospect of selling, however the distributor's owner, Fiona Dicker, said she is not entertaining any serious offers as yet.
LAN Systems has taken out Distributor of the Year 2001 at the recent Nokia Executive Summit, in recognition of its success with Nokia's IP security product range.
Australia hasn't seen as much IT spend from the September 11 wake-up call as we might have expected or liked, according to IDC analyst Graham Penn.
KAZ Group announced earnings of $251.9 million for the year ending June 2002 last week, an 80 per cent increase on last year's figures and a vindication for managing director Peter Kazacos' big spend attitude over the last 12 months.
The importance of data to an organisation wasn't suddenly just realised in the last 12 months, despite what the vendors would have us believe. Businesses with critical operations have always been conscious of them and those at the upper echelons, who spend millions of dollars on the security of their information, have long been aware of the need to protect it and are willing to incur the cost of doing so.
The problem with recommended system requirements detailed on the back of software boxes is that they will only get you so far - laboratory environments don't exist in the real world.
While scores are bailing out of the IT industry, little-known customer software developer Genseric is on the acquisition trail to round out its hardware services and consulting business.
Check Point has assembled a new account team to foster opportunities among Top 500 companies in Sydney and Melbourne and in the telco service provider space.
Hewlett-Packard told partners and customers that it would continue to support the full range of Compaq and HP storage products for the immediate future at its annual ENSA [Enterprise Networked Storage Architecture] conference in Queensland last month. However, the number of partners dealing direct with the vendor could be cut.
Internet Protocol (IP) has become the default transport mechanism by which data is transferred between wide area networks (WANs).
The ink is nearly dry on a deal that will see Powerlan divest its business infrastructure arm in NSW and QLD for significantly less than the traditional market rate.
Minolta-QMS is primed to crack the cost barrier of colour printing with the release of a sub-$2000 colour laser printer in September.