Microsoft co-founder in patent war

Posted on August 28th, 2010 at 10:51 am in Australian IT by AustralianIT.news.com.au | Top Stories
A FIRM run by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is suing Apple, Google, Facebook and 8 other companies alleging they are violating patents.

The robots are cutting in on our dance moves

Posted on August 28th, 2010 at 3:00 am in Fairfax Digital by SMH.com.au Staff
THE moonwalk sounds like the kind of dance every young robot would dream of performing. Soon it could be within their repertoire, thanks to Sydney scientists who have programmed a group of humanoid robots to dance - the agile automatons already have mastered hip-hop.

Banks look to build continuous IT: IBM

Posted on August 28th, 2010 at 12:53 am in iTNews by iTnews
Midnight downtime no longer acceptable.

Red Hat pushes open cloud API

Posted on August 28th, 2010 at 12:29 am in iTNews by iTnews
Strives to establish industry standard.

HP trumps Dell with AU$2 billion bid for 3PAR

Posted on August 28th, 2010 at 12:28 am in iTNews by iTnews
Bidding war for storage vendor escalates.

HP ups 3PAR bid to $30 per share, tops Dell’s latest

Posted on August 28th, 2010 at 12:14 am in Computerworld by Computerworld Staff
The bidding war for storage vendor 3PAR continued to escalate Friday, with Hewlett-Packard submitting a new offer of US$30 per share, or $2 billion. The offer topped a $27 per share bid made by Dell earlier in the day.

Facebook ducks porn queries

Posted on August 28th, 2010 at 12:00 am in Australian IT by AustralianIT.news.com.au | Top Stories
Facebook has not indicated if it will station staff in Australia, following its alleged failure to report a pornography network.

Sneak Peak: ANZ’s goMoney iPhone app

Posted on August 28th, 2010 at 12:00 am in iTNews by iTnews
goMoney is the first iPhone app in Australia that allows ANZ customers to pay money to other customers using only a mobile phone number as an identifier.