Local software companies win awards for innovation
Nine local software companies have received innovation awards at the 2008 Consensus Software Awards in Sydney last night.
Stories by Rodney Gedda
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Blu-ray camcorder media hits the streets
TDK Life on Record has expanded its range of Blu-ray removable media with the release of 8cm, single-sided, 7.5GB capacity camcorder media in both recordable and re-writable formats offering up to 60 minutes of full HD recording.
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Ubuntu releases Hardy Heron, closer to desktop nirvana
Yet another six months has passed and another Ubuntu Linux release is out the door. April 2008 signals the release of Ubuntu 8.04, or Hardy Heron, and follows the Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon releases of 2007 with the intention making Linux as desktop friendly as Windows or Mac OS X.
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Ex-polly Hewson joins IT industry
Former leader of the federal Liberal Party, and contender for the Prime Minister's office, Dr John Hewson has entered the IT industry by being appointed chairman of IT services firm Pisces Group.
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Wikipedia breeds 'unwitting trust' says IT professor
If you are faced with the prospect of having brain surgery who would you rather it be performed by - a surgeon trained at medical school or someone who has read Wikipedia?
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Aussie open source report now a free download
Sydney-based open source research firm Waugh Partners has published a version of its Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report as a freely-distributable PDF file under a Creative Commons licence.
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BEA customers welcome Oracle acquisition
Oracle's seemingly endless buying spree may have alienated some customers, but its recent $US8.5 billion bid for BEA Systems is seen as a step in the right direction.
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Server 2008 early adopters talk virtualization
The local launch of Windows Server 2008 in Sydney brought together a number of early adopter customers who are already looking at using the native virtualization capability, dubbed Hyper-V.
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Citrix opens Xen for business, still Linux shy
Following all the hype surrounding Citrix's $US500 million acquisition of virtualization software vendor XenSource late last year, the local operations is now fully equipped to service and support local buyers.
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Packaging company eases desktop management pain
Needing to upgrade and patch some 350 PCs across eight locations was becoming too much of a manual task for food packaging company Huhtamaki, which deployed a centralized software management system.
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Schools tap into enterprise network security service
More than 50 schools have signed up to managed security services contracts with Sydney-based provider Earthwave, which has launched its ISONet Internet gateway aimed at the education market.
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Microsoft developer joins Aussie OOXML standards delegation
In what may be a perceived threat to the objectivity of the Office Open XML standards process, Standards Australia will include a Microsoft developer and consultant as part of its delegation for this month's Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva.
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DFAT rolls out Linux-based management appliances
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has started deploying Linux-based Opengear console servers to remotely monitor and manage its international locations, including Australian Embassies, Consulates, High Commissions and territories.
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Defence IT security ups server infrastructure
Australia's national authority for signal intelligence and information security, the Defence Signals Directorate, will install an additional 50 servers to facilitate the operations of its computer network vulnerability team.
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Open source VoIP systems move into SA ISPs
When three ISPs in South Australia were looking to add voice services to their portfolio and reduce running costs, they embarked on a VoIP infrastructure project using open source software.
