Oracle appeared to confirm this week what many in the computer industry already suspected: The OpenSolaris project is dead.

Non-profit standards organisation, GS1 Australia will look to implement recall services for the healthcare and grocery industries into a private cloud infrastructure, with a pilot of the system beginning this month.

Cisco has issued a security notification to warn users that the IOS 15.1(2)T software release has a vulnerability allowing for denial of service (DOS) attacks.

The Victorian Department of Justice (DOJ) will roll out an enterprise talent management solution as part of a bid to implement an effective performance management program.

Surf Lifesaving Australia (SLSA) has begun the process of implementing a new IT system in a bid to make business processes more efficient.

A group of Sydney high school students have been awarded the first Young Australian Innovators National ICT Prize by National ICT Australia (NICTA) and the Australian Computer Society (ACS), for their entry which focused on household security.

Fixing Queensland's health payroll bungle has cost taxpayers at least $4 million, Treasurer Andrew Fraser says.

Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, charging that its Android phone software infringes Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java, Oracle said on Thursday.

Microsoft's revision of the Xbox 360 brought results in July when the console topped the U.S. video game sales ranking for the first time in three years, according to figures from NPD Group.

Optus has posted its strongest quarterly earnings growth in five years as it continues to attract mobile customers away from its competitors.

Betting that moving to the cloud won't be as easy as vendors promise, CA on Thursday bought 4Base, a consulting firm that helps companies adopt and implement the cloud.

Hewlett-Packard's board of directors has been hit with a shareholder lawsuit alleging mismanagement and breach of fiduciary duties following last week's abrupt departure of Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd.

Nvidia on Thursday reported a loss for the second quarter of its 2011 fiscal year, caused partly by charges related to faulty laptop graphics processors the company sold more than two years ago.

Twitter has launched its Tweet Button, whose goal is to simplify the sharing of Web links on Twitter both for Web publishers and for end users.

Hewlett Packard Co. definitely plans to be in the tablet business, but questions remain about whether it will create different hardware for each of three expected tablet operating systems -- Android , Windows 7 and WebOS.

Google on Thursday introduced a tool for easily sending links from its Chrome browser on a PC to an Android phone, and added 12 more voice-activated actions to the Voice Search tool in Android 2.2.

A firm that received a US$200 million settlement from MIcrosoft in May filed similar patent infringement charges against Apple Wednesday, claiming that the iPhone and iPad illegally use its technology.

Smartphones are on the verge of becoming more powerful, with chip makers readying dual-core chips that could accelerate multimedia and application performance on handheld devices.

Five left-leaning groups that want the U.S. government to create formal network neutrality rules are organizing a rally to protest a recent proposal by Google and Verizon Communications at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, Friday.

Details have emerged about Intel's upcoming Medfield chip platform for smartphones, which is due for release in 2011 and will succeed the company's existing Moorestown platform, which was originally announced in May.