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Green tech early birds catch juiciest worms
Karen Dearne AS pressure builds on climate change, early adopters of green technology, and investors in it, are discovering new opportunities, leading chief financial officers told an SAS business forum in Sydney last week.
Accounting software answers emissions call
Karen Dearne LOCAL company Supply Chain Consulting has developed world-first carbon accounting software so businesses can measure product footprints across global manufacturers and from factory floor to shop.
Botnets hit Georgian government websites
ATTACKS by Russian hackers against Georgian websites, including one hosted in the US, have continued despite Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordering a halt to hostilities against Georgia.
Google blogger case goes to court
Tariq Engineer and Jessica Vascellaro A SMALL Indian construction equipment company is demanding that Google disclose the name of a person who used its blogging service in a case that could change the way the internet giant does business in India.
Putting Beijing on the big screen
Fran Foo LIKE the Beijing smog, it's hard to ignore the massive screens beaming images of athletes in action to thousands of eager spectators at the Olympic Games in China.
Film crews on top of workflow
Jennifer Foreshew AN organisational tool designed to simplify the process of movie production, from Hollywood blockbusters to art-house shorts, could dramatically reduce the time it takes to organise filming.
Carving out a niche in services
Mahesh Sharma world according to | Peter Mavridis
PETER Mavridis walked away from a job on Wall Street, where he worked on acquisitions for a $US20 billion business, to jump-start a local IT services firm. But he doesn't miss the bright lights of New York City.
Switch maker beats expectations
BROCADE Communications Systems, the largest maker of switches for data storage networks, has reported a profit that beat analysts' estimates after an acquisition boosted its services unit.
EU puts roaming charges in the dock
EUROPEAN regulators have increased pressure on mobile phone operators to change their billing practices as a result of a report that finds customers are being overcharged for calls made while they are travelling.
Puzzles sort out OCR errors
INTERNET users who solve distorted-word puzzles to access websites may unknowingly be helping The New York Times digitise old print articles.
Gates foresees another revolution
MICROSOFT chairman Bill Gates said last week the dramatic growth of the internet would help to eventually eliminate "the last constraints we have", leading to a software-writing revolution.
Tandberg in talks with equity suitor
TANDBERG, a Norwegian maker of videoconferencing equipment, says it has been approached by a private equity company about a possible bid and agreed to enter "preliminary discussions" with the unidentified suitor.
T-Mobile takes on Apple, BlackBerry
THE T-Mobile unit of Deutsche Telekom will start selling a mobile phone using Google's Android software in the fourth quarter, offering an alternative to handsets made by Apple and Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry.
There's not a counter idle on the aisles at Kathmandu
Andrew Colley case study | Kathmandu
PUTTING together a good retail point-of-sale system is all about being ready for the gotchas, Kathmandu information technology manager Bryan Moore says.
Unwired's national network pushed back again
Andrew Colley UNWIRED'S plans to establish Australia's first national metropolitan WiMax network have been pushed back further.
Intel chips in with eight-process Core i7
Don Clark INTEL has announced branding plans for a new generation of chip technology, relying on a term the company has already spent heavily on popularising.
Games tech ticks over smoothly
Fran Foo MORE than two decades have passed since Carl Lewis's blistering pace bagged him the Olympics sprint double. As the athletics program kicks off this week in Beijing, all eyes will be on Jamaica's Usain Bolt to repeat the feat.
Credit crisis exposes legacy faults
Jennifer Foreshew INVESTORS' needs for more transparency and accurate and timely product and market information in the current credit and liquidity environment cannot be met by most legacy banking systems, a report finds.
Medibank overcomes its lease data risk
Mahesh Sharma case study | Medibank Private
MEDIBANK Private has more than 100 branches nationally and until recently any one of these could have been at risk as a result of a single error in the spreadsheet used to manage information on property and equipment leases.
Red Hat, Microsoft, attacking VMware
Mitchell Bingemann RED Hat and Microsoft are poised to drive greater enterprise penetration of virtualisation while VMware sits on the sidelines as a bit player, long-serving Red Hat executive Paul Cormier says.