Bain Capital Partners to buy 3Com

Posted on September 29th, 2007 at 7:50 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff
Global private investment firm, Bain Capital Partners, is to acquire 3Com Corporation for approximately $US2.2 billion in cash, with 3Com's former joint venture partner, Huawei, taking an unspecified minority stake...

Come on Aussies - let’s get clarity on broadband

Posted on September 29th, 2007 at 6:38 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff
You might have an ADSL2+ service that promise broadband at up to 20Mbps but what you get depends on how close you are to the exchange and how...

Google Brazil is Google’s best performer

Posted on September 29th, 2007 at 5:40 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff
What's 0.008 percent between friends? That's the difference between the uptime of Google's best and worst performing national search sites and it means the worst had 10 times the downtime...

Lord British: 6th space tourist, 1st to commercialize space station

Posted on September 28th, 2007 at 11:16 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
Space Adventures announced on September 28, 2007, that U.S. computer game developer Richard Garriott (aka “Lord British”) will become the sixth space tourist to be launched from the Russian Soyuz...

Sputnik 1: The event that began space exploration

Posted on September 28th, 2007 at 6:57 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
The Soviet Sputnik program was launched at 19:28:34 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), or 22:28:34 Moscow Time (MSK), on October 4, 1957. Fifty years later, on October 4, 2007, the fifieth...

Halo 3 breaks Australian record

Posted on September 28th, 2007 at 6:00 pm in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
Microsoft sells over 50,000 copies of Halo 3 in the first 24 hours of sales, making it the biggest Australian entertainment launch of all time.

XPmediacentre.com.au founder speaks on ReelTime deal

Posted on September 28th, 2007 at 5:46 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
XPmediacentre.com.au founder Mike Hancock has reassured the forum's 40,000 members the site's acquisition by online video provider ReelTime will not impact on the forum's independence.

Satyam opens fourth Australian solution centre

Posted on September 28th, 2007 at 5:18 pm in Computerworld by Computerworld Staff
Satyam Computer Services has opened a solutions centre in Brisbane, mainly to support Queensland clients with a focus on enterprise application solutions.

Mario to take on Sonic

Posted on September 28th, 2007 at 5:13 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff
Mario Sonic at the Olympic Games will feature 20 sports challenges on the Nintendo DS and Wii

Eclipse Computing and PayGlobal partner up

Posted on September 28th, 2007 at 5:10 pm in Computerworld by Computerworld Staff
UXC subsidiary, Eclipse Computing, has partnered with people management solutions developer, PayGlobal, to manage its local client base.
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