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Enterasys President and CEO Mike Fabiaschi passed away suddenly this week at his home in the US. He was 53.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison failed to preserve e-mails as well as interview materials related to a book called "Softwar" that should have been supplied in connection with a shareholder lawsuit filed in March 2001 against the company, a US federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

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.

Over 500 Intel Asia-Pacific partners converged on the Grant Hyatt in Bangkok, Thailand, for the 2008 Intel Solutions Summit. The event delved into Intel's latest solution strategies, product roadmaps and multi-core technologies. Vice-president and general manager of Intel Asia-Pacific, Navin Shenoy, and director of the Reseller Channel Organisation Asia-Pacific, Kamil Hassan, spoke at the event, themed 'Breaking Limits, Creating Possibilities'. Business aside, partners also had the chance to indulge in activities such as visiting the Grand Palace, touring a floating market, being pampered in a spa session, playing a round of golf, entering Siam Ocean World or going shopping.

While plasma has ruled the roost in widescreen technology, LCD prices have come down, refresh rates are getting higher and viewing angles are getting wider. Jeanne-Vida Douglas discovers why 2006 is being widely predicted as the year LCD unit sales overtake their plasma counterparts.

What digital home equipment is attracting most consumer attention? From a home-theatre-in-a-box to high-powered systems, Jeanne-Vida Douglas discovers this Christmas shopping period is all about what looks and sounds good.

Despite market inhibitors, there's a growing opportunity for resellers to peddle hardware, software and services into the public sector. Start pushing enterprise applications, CRM solutions, portals and e-procurement - and that's just the beginning.

There are plenty of new opportunities opening up in the rugged computing space for those resellers seeking better margins.

My favourite book or movie ...My favourite movie is Endless Summer - it does have some cheesy American narrating but the amount of fun those guys had travelling around the world looking for great waves would be an amazing way to live your life.

My favourite book or movie... All I ever seem to read is work-related and predominantly technical. However, I do watch the odd movie and my favourite is Predator - it's a classic from the days before Arnie thought he could actually act. I'm not sure I want to analyse why I enjoy it so much

My favourite book or movie ...My favourite book is Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. I have three favourite films - Highlander, Forest Gump and Scarface. All three storylines follow underdogs, but encapsulate spiritual strength and ultimate reward for each - albeit one through the pain of growth and uncertainty, one through spiritual reverence and one through raw, brute force.

My favourite book or movie ...I'm an avid reader and thoroughly enjoy movies. It's too hard to pick an absolute favourite in either category, although the Lord of the Rings trilogy would be up there.

Can Cellnet's founders turn the ailing distributor around?

I was once renowned and reviled for my lack of regard for Visual Basic. I have since reformed, realising that we all benefit from languages that target developers at different skill levels and shorten the distance between concept and delivery. Modern server compute power and capacity more than offset the performance limitations of Visual Basic and its follow-ons .Net and Java.

Former Tech Pacific boss, Kerry Baillie, would sometimes refer to the distributor's TechLink website as the Resellers' Bible. This wasn't an idle boast; it gave him a sense of pride that even dealers who didn't frequently source product through Tech Pac would use the site as a pricing yardstick because of the depth and breadth of stock it contained.

Although it was just Turkey Day [Thanksgiving] here in the US, I've been feasting on the baloney coming out of Sony BMG. After stonewalling for two weeks, the music giant finally recalled its XCP copy-protected CDs and set up a disc exchange program. (Contrary to what I said in a recent column, however, Sony's "fix" doesn't remove the rootkit, only the cloaking.) Meanwhile, it seems XCP may itself break copyright law by violating an open source code licence. Sounds like Sony is suffering from irony poisoning.

Glamorous women in corsets and jewels, a mix of old and new tunes and dancing were order of the day as Express Data and 300 of its partners celebrated the end of the financial year last month.

When the Logitech G15 gaming keyboard first appeared in the office, we thought it might end up being a one trick pony. The big selling point of the G15 is its LCD monitor, which can receive and correlate information from games and display it on the backlit screen for easy viewing.

We challenged local system builders, Plus Corporation and TI Computers to create a complete system for under $1000. There are many different ways you can approach building a sub-$US1000 PC system, so it's no surprise that both companies submitted two very different configurations to our Test Centre.

Apple has dropped the price, bumped up the speed, and enhanced the features of its 20-inch iMac G5. The result is an all-in-one desktop computer that's more media friendly and affordable than its predecessor; but like that unit, it falls short of being a media PC because it lacks a built-in TV tuner.