Stories by: ARN Staff

Have your say and vote in ARN's online poll. This week, we want to know whether HP's acquisition of EDS will enable it to take the services crown from IBM.

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My favourite book or movie ...I have not had the chance to do much reading lately so movies tend to win out. I'm a sucker for science fiction movies, as well as ones with unique plots. Some of my favourites are Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise, The Game with Michael Douglas, and Entrapment with Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Have your say and vote in ARN's online poll. This week, we want to know whether you'd sign up to a Dell partner program.

The countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympic games was marked locally by the Olympic Torch relay in Canberra on April 24. Lenovo Australia managing director, Phil Cameron, put his best foot forward to run with the Olympic Torch. Fifty Lenovo employees travelled to the capital city to cheer him and other torch bearers on. Cameron was handed the Olympic Torch by Lenovo ambassador and olympic swimmer, Libby Trickett. Cameron said it was an experience he would never forget.

Intrusion prevention systems (IPS) have been touted for a couple of years now as a way of stopping organisations getting hit. However, although there have been some major deployments in Australia to date, they are still far from ubiquitous.

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Late last year, the Computer Security Institute asked almost 500 security professionals what percentage of their IT security functions were outsourced - more than 60 per cent answered "none". So why are many organisations still reluctant to take that route?

Dell's decision to appoint Officeworks as its inaugural Australian retail partner sends a clear signal to its PC rivals that the vendor is serious about winning back marketshare. The question is, can Dell be as successful with a channel as it was without.