Stories by: Rodney Gedda

The Western Australian Police service has entered into a $5 million contract with the ASX-listed Empired for strategic IT consulting services.

Accounting software maker MYOB has consolidated its storage from distributed servers to a virtualised SAN system to reduce costs and speed up its server provisioning capability.

The Unix file system hierarchy has been used for decades and remains the model for most of today’s modern Linux systems, but one distribution, GoboLinux, is making software management easier with an innovative directory structure.

Incomplete laws and intense lobbying from the software industry are contrary to the values of free software and continue to pose a threat to its existence says an independent technology consultant and writer from New Zealand.

The Department of Defence will appoint one or more service providers to deliver IT projects and assist with its strategic reform agenda as part of a larger move to transform how services are delivered by agency's internal IT organisation.

Nokia's latest smartphone, the N900, has received a firmware update that gives access to applications and content on the company's Ovi Store.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) may stop releasing new versions of the older 1.3 and 2.0 series of its flagship Web server product with most development now focused on the 2.2 series.

With around 750,000 customers and 3 million calls a year, pay TV provider Austar has improved its customer service through unified communications by reducing average call handling times by 15 per cent.

It’s that time of the year again. The Silly Season is upon us, but this year will be different. Here at TechWorld we couldn’t help but do a 2009 Christmas product special to help you decide what to spend your money on.

New Zealand software company Amberdms has release a Web-based open source accounting and billing application aimed at simplifying business and customer management.