Semel quits Yahoo board
DETHRONED Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel left the struggling internet firm’s board of directors today.
Gartner’s Hayward joins KPMG
VETERAN IT analyst Bob Hayward has joined KPMG’s IT practice after recently ending his 12-year tenure at Gartner.
Motorola eyes breakup of company
MOTOROLA is studying a possible breakup of the company in an effort “to recapture global market leadership” in the mobile phone market.
Internet outages disrupt businesses across Mideast and Gulf
Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swath of the Middle East today after an undersea cable in the Mediterranean was damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said.
St George online banking blacks out
St George’s online banking services have suffered a blackout, locking out thousands of customers from accessing their accounts.
Calls grow for femtocell standardisation
Femtol Forum aims to harmonise deployments.
Mobile phone reads text to the blind
A mobile handset released today is being touted as the smallest text-to-speech device ever created.
ACS elects Kim Denham as new CEO
Australia Computer Society’s (ACS) national president, Kumar Parakala, has welcomed Kim Denham as the new chief executive officer for the Society.
Eee PC spawns a low-cost Eee family
Buoyed by the success of its diminutive $499 notebook, Taiwanese computer giant Asustek is planning to launch an entire range of cheap Eee products.
Tridge confesses: I’m a Sony Reader fan
Linux.conf.au wouldn't be complete without Andrew 'Tridge' Tridgell giving a presentation on the latest developments in Samba, but attendees who turned up early for his talk this year got an unexpected insight into another one of his passions: the Sony Reader.