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  • FineReader speaks more languages

    The latest release of ABBYY’s FineReader 9.0 optical character recognition (OCR) and document conversion application adds support for Chinese (both traditional and simplified), Japanese, Thai and Hebrew languages.

  • IDC Warns of Increasing Power Costs

    Following a groundbreaking study, the analysts at IDC have issued a somewhat alarming warning that the real cost to power and cool the world’s external storage topped US$1 (AU$1.06) billion in 2007, and judging by storage growth and other ...

  • SharePoint adds social networking nous

    The company behind popular desktop and Web-based RSS reading software, NewsGator Technologies, has upgraded its social computing solution for SharePoint Server 2007.

  • Fastest solid state drives in Texas

    Texas Memory Systems has been granted a patent for its Instant-On Input-Output (IO²) technology, which enables instant access to data from a RAM-based Solid State Disk (SSD) after a unit is powered-on.

  • RSA Beefs up Security

    EMC’s security division RSA has unveiled new capabilities for its encryption and key management suite designed to secure sensitive data in file systems.

  • LiveOffice Archives Online

    Software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider LiveOffice has released a new email archiving offering that it says will help business and public organisations gain the benefits of e-discovery and mailbox management without devoting significant time...

  • Objective Selected by Hobsons Bay

    Objective Corporation has notched up another win, having been selected by the Hobsons Bay City Council to help enhance community services by providing a new electronic document and records management solution (EDRMS).

  • Education Database Stokes Privacy Fears

    A new student database initiative by the Queensland State Government has kicked up a privacy storm, with parents and civil liberty activist decrying moves to compile detailed information on students into a central repository.

  • Tasmanian Government Goes Virtual

    EMC’s VMware has announced that the Tasmanian government has used its Infrastructure 3 to standardise and consolidate its state-wide server farms, improving its business continuity and disaster recovery processes while reducing the carbon ...

  • Astute, Sun Offer ATCA Solution

    Astute Networks has teamed up with Sun Microsystems to provide the industry’s first MySQL-based integrated ATCA server/storage solution.