Chris Kanaracus - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Chris Kanaracus

Article | 12/01/2009 Amazon releases point-and-click console for EC2

Amazon has released a new Web-based management console for the company's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform, which provides scalable application and...

Article | 8/01/2009 Social networking, ROI, pricing among '09 CRM trends

Big changes are coming to the CRM (customer relationship management) application market this year, with significant financial, strategic and technical...

Article | 7/01/2009 'Leap second' snafu affects Oracle clusterware

The additional second that time-tracking scientists added to 2008 to adjust for the slowing of the earth's rotation is causing problems with Oracle's ...

Article | 6/01/2009 IBM employees buzzing about layoff rumours

An independent Web site for IBM employees has been buzzing with rumours that the company will make significant layoffs this month.

Article | 24/12/2008 Sun executive reveals more open-source plans for JavaFX

A Sun Microsystems executive has provided a glimpse into the company's future plans for open sourcing JavaFX, its recently released technology for bui...

Article | 22/12/2008 Watchdog group asks Google to create personal data "opt-out"

The nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog asked that Google give users of its search engine the ability to "opt out" of leaving personal data, such as IP ...

Article | 17/12/2008 Open-source software security vendor praises 25 projects

Palamida, a vendor that sells software and services around open-source software security and legal compliance, has named 25 open-source projects compa...

Article | 5/12/2008 SAP exec: Belt-tightening to continue, but business better

A top SAP executive on Wednesday said the company is "implementing a series of tough, tough actions to convert the company to a much leaner operation ...

Article | 26/11/2008 Fedora 10 out, packed with improvements

The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project on Tuesday released Fedora 10, the latest version of the free Linux-based operating system, with a wide range of ...

Article | 25/11/2008 New IBM services offer cloud setup, 'validation'

IBM launched a new set of cloud computing consulting and implementation services on Monday, framing the move as something that could spark wider adopt...

Article | 19/11/2008 CA to discuss 'Mainframe 2.0'

CA is expected to announce a product and services initiative titled "Mainframe 2.0" on Tuesday at its CA World 2008 conference in Las Vegas.

Article | 18/11/2008 Ribbit opens Web telephony platform to all developers

Ribbit Monday released for general availability its Web telephony platform, designed to extend telephony development to the world's Web developers thr...

Article | 17/11/2008 Sun reorganizes, cuts up to 18 percent of workforce

Sun is laying off 15 percent to 18 percent of its employees as part of a restructuring plan aimed at saving $700 million to $800 million a year, and i...

Article | 7/11/2008 Survey: US tech wages fall in third quarter

Wages for U.S. tech jobs fell significantly in the third quarter compared to the same period last year, the IT staffing company Yoh Services said Thur...

Article | 6/11/2008 Sun, IBM launch ODF tools initiative

Sun Microsystems and IBM Wednesday announced the Open Document Format Toolkit Union, an open-source project aimed at making it easier for developers t...