Chris Kanaracus - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 18/03/2009 Workday SaaS apps to gain iPhone client

Workday customers will soon be able to tap the SaaS vendor's human resources and financial applications from their iPhone, the company announced Thurs...

Article | 8/03/2009 Dynamics users ready to network, solve problems

This week's Microsoft Convergence conference in New Orleans will likely be light on new product announcements but heavy on talk about how the vendor's...

Article | 3/03/2009 Virtual server appliance tools leave out the OS

AppZero is planning to showcase its tools for creating Virtual Application Appliances (VAAs) at this week's DEMO conference in Palm Desert, California...

Article | 3/03/2009 Move over e-mail, here come 'Pixetells'

A startup called Ontier has unveiled Pixetell, communication software that combines text, video, images and audio in a single message.

Article | 26/02/2009 HP to distribute, support Sun's Solaris

Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems -- fierce competitors when it comes to hardware sales -- unveiled an expanded partnership on Wednesday that will ...

Article | 13/02/2009 New iPhone apps let you control Amazon cloud services

Amazon Web Services customers will soon have a pair of options for managing their systems from an Apple iPhone.

Article | 11/02/2009 Microsoft's enterprise search road map leads to SharePoint

Microsoft will release a new server that integrates the enterprise search technology it gained by acquiring Fast Search & Transfer with its SharePoint...

Article | 6/02/2009 MySQL co-founder quits Sun

Michael "Monty" Widenius, the original developer of the open-source MySQL database, has left Sun Microsystems and is starting his own company, Monty P...

Article | 3/02/2009 Study: BI, programming skills in demand despite economy

Thirty-eight percent of U.S. companies are planning to trim IT staff this year, but certain skills remain hot, according to a new study by the IT staf...

Article | 2/02/2009 Google researcher targets Web's structured data

Internet search engines have focused largely on crawling text on Web pages, but Google is knee-deep in research about how to analyze and organize stru...

Article | 30/01/2009 Software flushes out the Eureka! moments

The Boston software company Invention Machine will have you believe their product can make the traditional "Eureka!" moment obsolete.

Article | 28/01/2009 Oracle takes aim at Salesforce with on-demand CRM update

Oracle on Tuesday stepped up its assault on rival Salesforce with a new version of its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) application.

Article | 28/01/2009 IBM confirms job cuts

A union that is trying to organize workers at IBM is reporting that the company cut more than 2,800 jobs recently, but an IBM spokesman would only con...

Article | 21/01/2009 IBM posts strong Q4 results, no layoffs announced

IBM on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter fiscal 2008 earnings of US$3.28 per share, a 17 percent increase year-over-year, but said total revenue for the...

Article | 19/01/2009 IBM buying SaaS e-mail to bolster Bluehouse platform

IBM is planning to buy the e-mail service assets of Outblaze, a large Hong Kong application service provider, to help beef up its Bluehouse social-net...