Stories by: Georgina Swan

Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

Even with the best of intentions, businesses don't scrutinise spending the same way in good times as during a downturn. When the economic highs reach their zenith and begin to fade, however, the spotlight suddenly shifts to issues such as business cases and costs.

The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has likened the National Broadband Network (NBN) to the Apple iPhone, saying it’s impossible to know all the applications that will use the high-speed connectivity engine before it is built.

Mobility has become the dream for corporates both large and small, and an opportunity for the channel to tackle. But presenting a comprehensive mobility solution is a significant technology and business challenge. GEORGINA SWAN reports.

VMware is not just any IT company — the winner of the 2009 ARN Software Vendor of the Year has a partner community that runs through the entire channel.

Local assemblers are launching an assault on the last bastion of brand name dominance – the notebook market.

Nortel Networks will revamp its second-tier distribution model, upping resources to the sector in a bid to widen its market appeal.

North Sydney-based Entertainment Media & Telecoms Corporation (EMT) has won a $14 million deal to roll out a digital entertainment system to more than 25 Rydges Hotels across the Asia Pacific region.

There were notebooks aplenty at the launch of Intel’s new Centrino mobile technology but resellers will have to wait until April before most of the offerings hit the shelves.

Independent retailers don’t often get the chance to give away $22,000 worth of prizes, but Leading Edge outfit, Seymour Computers, in Victoria managed to do just that — to one of its best customers.