Chris Kanaracus - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Chris Kanaracus

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...

Article | 5/11/2008 Google adds analytics for Apps admins

Google Apps administrators can now point Google's Web analytics tools at their systems and gain detailed insight into how users are working with Googl...

Article | 28/10/2008 Shuttleworth: Canonical may need 3-5 more years of funding

Canonical, the commercial backer of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system, is not yet turning a profit, but founder Mark Shuttleworth said Monday du...

Article | 24/10/2008 SAP invests in LinkedIn

SAP's venture capital arm has sunk an undisclosed sum of money into LinkedIn, the business-oriented social-networking site.

Article | 17/10/2008 StartLinxter developing 'Internet service bus'

A startup called Linxter is set to launch a hosted messaging platform that will enable any Internet-addressable device, application or system to commu...

Article | 16/10/2008 Ex-Google, Yahoo employees behind Hadoop startup

A team including former Google, Yahoo and Facebook employees is launching a startup that will provide professional support for Hadoop, an open-source ...

Article | 24/09/2008 Rozwat talks about cloud, but holds back on Fusion

Chuck Rozwat, Oracle's head of product development, largely deflected questions about hotly anticipated technologies such as Fusion Applications durin...

Article | 22/09/2008 Cisco buys Jabber for instant messaging

Cisco Systems said Friday it plans to buy instant messaging platform vendor Jabber, a move that could heighten its battle with Microsoft over the coll...

Article | 18/09/2008 IBM launches social software think tank

IBM is opening the Center for Social Software, a think tank for developing social technologies, officials said during a presentation at the Massachuse...

Article | 16/09/2008 Sun aims at Google with open-source project hosting site

Sun is set to compete with the likes of Google Code and Github through Project Kenai, an open-source project hosting site the vendor launched in beta ...

Article | 16/09/2008 Bluenog wraps BI, portal and CMS for midmarket

Bluenog released an application suite on Monday that bundles portal software along with content management and BI (business intelligence).

Article | 12/09/2008 Simplexo launches open-source enterprise search tool

A U.K. startup called Simplexo has launched an open-source enterprise search engine, joining a small but growing group of vendors hoping to crack the ...

Article | 4/09/2008 Judge raps Ellison over missing e-mails

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison failed to preserve e-mails as well as interview materials related to a book called "Softwar" that should have been supplied i...