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Article | 14/01/2011 BlackBerry Dakota signals RIM's desperation

Images and details of the BlackBerry Dakota--the impending flagship smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM)--have emerged. The Dakota is packed with ...

Article | 12/01/2011 Optus: 25 years of satellite technology

Following the formation of AUSSAT by the Australian Government in 1981, a government owned company designed to own and operate the national satellite ...

Article | 12/01/2011 ConTEXT text editor a boon for programmers

ConTEXT is a powerful, free, and open-source text editor squarely aimed at programmers. Its feature set makes it especially useful for system administ...

Article | 12/01/2011 Telecommuting is good for employees and employers

As technology evolves, many of the barriers that have traditionally limited telecommuting continue to disappear.

Article | 11/01/2011 How useful are tablets for business?

Last week's CES brought forward a huge number of tablets. It doesn't take a genius to realize we're entering the era of tablet computing. Either that ...

Article | 9/01/2011 Analysis: Why I'm not sold on mobile video chat

Prior to CES, there were only a handful of phones with front-facing cameras: the iPhone 4, the EVO 4G and the T-Mobile myTouch 4G to name a few. This ...

Article | 7/01/2011 The evolution of hard disk drives

A punched card was once the basis for digital information used for computer programs and data storage. They were widely used throughout the first half...

Article | 5/01/2011 The day of the password is done

When the popular Web site Gawker was hacked into recently, more than a million user IDs and passwords were released. If you were one of the people com...

Article | 22/12/2010 8pen: Android keyboard app tries something new

There are apps that I don't want to like, but do. Then there are apps I do want to like, but don't. The 8pen keyboard, unfortunately, belongs in this...

Article | 16/12/2010 Smartphones in the enterprise: A changing landscape

As recently as a year ago, many enterprises couldn't have imagined that the iPhone would now be second place in terms of security features that enterp...

Article | 14/12/2010 What is Android?

We explain Google's Android smartphone operating system.

Article | 14/12/2010 Closer look at Microsoft 'Aurora' Small Business Server

Microsoft has been paying more attention lately to the small business audience, as well as the cloud. With the "Aurora" Small Business Server (SBS)--o...

Article | 11/12/2010 Who’s using Twitter? Some surprising answers

Eight percent of online Americans may use Twitter, as the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported on Thursday. But does that mean your small bus...

Article | 8/12/2010 What's in the Tech Crystal Ball For 2011?

Market research firm IDC makes a number of tech-related predictions near the end of every calendar year, but its prognostications for 2011 may well be...

Article | 6/12/2010 Best iPhone apps for business

The iPhone is a useful tool for businesses, and there are some excellent tools available to help you be more productive. Check out a selection of iPho...

Article | 25/11/2010 The Golden Gobblers: Biggest tech turkeys of 2010

For the fourth year, I'm trotting out my nominations for the biggest turkeys of tech.

Article | 12/11/2010 Massive Mac OS X update shatters illusion of security

Perhaps you've heard that the Apple Mac OS X operating system is simply more secure by design and not prone to the security flaws and vulnerabilities ...

Article | 4/11/2010 Programmers who defined the tech industry: Where are they now?

Some early programmer names are familiar to even the most novice of software developers. You may never have seen a line of code written by Bill Gates,...

Article | 1/11/2010 The world's worst PowerPoint presentations

Yes, people who think that it's okay to put 100 graphs on one slide do exist. Learn from these examples how not to make PowerPoint slides for your nex...

Article | 26/10/2010 Burning questions: Virtualisation

Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisor...