Rodney Gedda

Notebook manufacturers may be gung ho over the multimedia-driven consumer market, but Intel has the business market firmly within its sights with its next-generation Centrino mobile technology unveiled today.

It's the corporate change every IT manager dreads

Australia's Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) in Canberra is considering dumping Microsoft Office in favour of open source software for 3,000 staff, according to a request for expressions of interest.

Despite concerns by Australian open source industry groups that an Australia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will result in U.S.-led intellectual property laws being applied here, Austrade is confident the agreement will open a US$30 billion homeland security market to Australian technology companies.

Showing that Telstra Corp. Ltd. CIO Jeff Smith hasn't lost his enthusiasm for Linux, the telco last week celebrated the launch of a new billing system codenamed Raptor-E.

Australia's intellectual property governing body, IP Australia, has embarked on a world-leading Web services project that will enable electronic patent lodgement to reduce the amount of manual processing required.

The South Australian Democrats party has rejected a A$50,000 (US$34,500) content management system from an unnamed vendor for its new Web site in favour of the free PostNuke open source system.

A network capacity timebomb with the potential to cripple businesses if left unchecked awaits Australian enterprises, leading industry figures warned last week. It is an impending crisis similar to Telstra Corp. Ltd.'s infamous BigPond e-mail fiasco, they said.