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What is 2012 likely to bring to the tech industry and its users?

Consumers are willing to leave their current ISPs if providers sign onto the voluntary “child abuse” filter, according to a Compare Broadband survey.

SonicWall is revamping the hardware for its storage appliances, giving them much more capacity from the top of the line to the bottom.

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.

There's only one thing cooler than flying around on a helicopter ...and that's flying around in a fleet of helicopters.

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.

Data#3 raised $20,000 for Autism Spectrum Australia at its recent NSW Charity Golf Day. About 120 golfers, including customers and vendor partners, hit the grassy green fields of Roseville Golf Club.

Since 2005, Targus has donated $10 from every notebook case sale from its Women's Collection range to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF).

Champagne glasses were raised high at Sydney's Shangri La Hotel last month in honour of Express Data's 10th birthday.

VExpress resellers learned a thing or two about batting your way to success during the distributor's recent annual partner conference.

Acer proved it had channel in its blood when a select band of local partners flew into Taipei at the end of last month to help celebrate its 30th birthday.

Novell has presented training provider, Excom Education, with an elite partner award as a Linux Centre of Excellence. The award was one of 25 handed out globally but the only one locally.

Ken Dodds from Star Accounting Solutions was centre of attention at Greentree's recent sales boot camp.

Pulling wheelies in a dune buggy, table-top football and a round of golf in Red Rock Canyon were some of the many pursuits local Acer channel partners took part in during a five-day tour to Las Vegas.

Dell's run as the financial darling of the technology world may have come to an end after it announced it would miss quarterly revenue targets for the second straight period. It blamed a shortfall in its US consumer business and UK operations, but competition around the world and a changing market may also be dragging Dell back down to earth.

Storage tape specialist, Tandberg Data, has refreshed its partner program in order to target the education market and refocus on government with its new LTO product range.

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft Windows was the leading OS in new servers in the third quarter, as the overall worldwide server market grew a robust 8.1 per cent, according to market research company, IDC.

The process of re-tendering $1 billion worth of IT contracts by the South Australian government may not reach completion until early 2007.