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  • Ovum: Innovation Is Sooo 2006

    Ovum takes on the English language and IT vendors with scepticism over the word ‘innovation’ frequently used in vendor sales pitches.

  • Rankings, Relevance and the Daily Australian Crawl

    The Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn, has announced that Funnelback Pty Ltd has secured a further two year contract to provide search engine services on the Australia.gov.au website, the online entry point for the Australian Government.

  • Australian Unity’s Direct Approach

    DataDirect Technologies says Australian Unity has experienced a 50 percent increase in database access performance since working with DataDirect distributor, Baobab Software.

  • HDS Validates Archiving Purchase

    In what Hitachi labels as a strategic move to strengthen their content services initiatives, Hitachi Data Systems has snapped up Archivas, a digital archiving solutions provider.

  • Australian Search Engine for Charity

    An Australian search engine dedicated to Australian based results says users can now donate to their charity of choice, simply by searching the internet.

  • Novell Incurs Wrath of Open Source Community

    In the wake of its landmark agreement with Microsoft, Novell has drawn the ire of many in the open source community. So much so, that Novell’s right to sell new versions of the Linux operating system has been cast into doubt.

  • New Virtualisation Bundle From VMware

    EMC’s VMware has released a new virtualisation bundle for SMBs, saying it can help them lower the cost and complexity via centralised management, rapid provisioning and lower hardware costs.

  • Reporting Inadequacies Caused M72 Thefts

    The Australia Department of Defence (ADF) says recordkeeping and accounting procedures prior to the year 2000 could have resulted in vulnerabilities contributing to the theft of M72s from ADF stocks.