Enterprise Applications

While Microsoft is doing the hard sell with Vista and all its shiny new features, some federal agencies in the US are not only sceptical about upgrading, they are flatly prohibiting Vista machines from connecting to their networks.

Dell is edging closer to bundling Linux with its PCs, launching a new poll on its website to help it target customer desires as accurately as possible.

Charges have been dropped against former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn, while three other defendants in the case will also avoid jail time in the fallout from HP’s boardroom spying scandal.

The push for broadband in regional areas has hit another snag this week, with Internode dropping its regional rollout in the wake of the Government’s cancellation of its Broadband Connect initiative.

Australian data access and analysis specialist Space-Time Research has secure a significant deal with the Russian Federal State Statistics Service, catapulting it into the European market.

Taupo District Council has turned to an Objective ECM solution to enhance their information management and improve overall business processes.

Seagate has announced the availability of its latest Momentus laptop hard disk. This time around, however, capacity is not the crux of the release with the company showing off the world’s first laptop hard drive with free-fall protection.

According to its latest batch of research from Q4 2006, IDC says that the worldwide storage software market has grown for the 13th straight quarter, nabbing revenues of US$2.6 billion.

In another embarrassing setback for Microsoft’s new security offering, the company has admitted that its Live OneCare suite has been inadvertently deleting email from Outlook and Outlook Express.

According to a recent survey of American SMBs, Firefox is gaining significant ground on Microsoft’s market-dominating Internet Explorer.

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