Open source USB key to $2bn school laptop plan
December 28, 2008
The Rudd Government’s promise of a laptop for every child could fail without at least $2 billion in public funding, but an alternative USB ‘computer’ system pioneered in France may be its saviour.
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NSW hospitals upgrade networking, unified comms
December 28, 2008
Northern Sydney Central Coast Health (NSCCH) has awarded HP a $1.15m networking contract, while Prince of Wales (PoW) has chosen Siemens OpenScape UC server to transition to IP communications.
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Vodafone introduces PayPal recharge option for prepaid phones
December 28, 2008
Vodafone is now giving its prepaid mobile customers the ability to recharge their credit from their handsets using PayPal.
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Small firms shun VoIP
December 28, 2008
Small and medium-sized businesses are reluctant to invest in voice over IP (VoIP) systems because of concerns about cost and performance, according to new research released today.
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Top 10 most overhyped products
December 28, 2008
This week, we take a look at some of those epic failures who crashed despite being billed as the “next big thing”.
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Q & A – Sun Microsystems CIO Bob Worrall
December 28, 2008
On the data centre challenges facing IT managers, why IT service provision is changing and what problems will it present to IT managers
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FBI warns of vishing threat
December 28, 2008
The FBI has issued a warning to companies about scammers spoofing voice over IP (VoIP) calls by exploiting PBX exchanges.
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HP boosts encryption for disk arrays and tapes
December 28, 2008
HP has unveiled two new security features for its StorageWorks XP Disk Arrays, along with LTO-4 enterprise tape libraries.
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Sydney Water plans SOA to data warehouse bridge
December 28, 2008
Sydney Water has embarked on a project to enable its SOA and data warehouse environments to share the same view of enterprise data.
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Teradata hedges bets on solid-state and spinning disks
December 28, 2008
Massive arrays of solid state storage disks will be commonplace in large corporate data centres within three years, according to a leading vendor.
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