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Microsoft today announced an overhaul of its Windows Live, Hotmail and MSN Messenger products, with a raft of new features available from February 2009.

This screenshot gallery takes you through the installation process and basic desktop functions of the latest beta version of openSUSE, the community version of Novell’s SUSE Linux distribution.

National Australia Bank today confirmed the outcome of a review into staffing would see the positions of a further 179 Australian technology staff threatened.

Local generic PC manufacturer Impact Systems has today agreed to take on the warranties of its failed competitor, Optima Technology Solutions.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer this week said he had confidence in President-elect Barack Obama’s leadership, during a whirlwind visit to Sydney.

Telstra yesterday said its Kaz IT services subsidiary would modify the way it provided desktop services, moving the IT services company into a direction the telco sees as more lucrative.

Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today said that Microsoft was “not interested” in making a new offer for internet company Yahoo, despite Yahoo’s share price currently sitting at less than half what Microsoft initially offered.

Seven-owned wireless internet service provider Unwired has revealed plans to launch services focused on business next week.

Sun Microsystems has released the updated 5.1 version of the MySQL open source database software it recent acquired, promising improved performance and management of larger database applications.