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  CeBIT: Getting down to IT

• NASSCOM recognises student innovation

  By Hafizah Osman | 28 May, 2012 11:46

  IT software and services body, NASSCOM Australia, has presented students at the Universities of Sydney, NSW, Western Sydney and Wollongong with awards at its inaugural Innovation Student Awards.

• OS33 rides the Cloud into Australia

  By Patrick Budmar | 21 May, 2012 17:13

  As the technology industry focuses its attention on the CeBIT event in Sydney, Cloud provider, OS33, is using the event as a springboard to drum up interest in its expansion to Australia.

• CeBIT 2012: Big data becomes the big topic

  By Shane Schick | 10 March, 2012 03:33

  The CEBIT trade show is an unbelievably vast series of more than 23 airplane hanger-sized halls, with thousands of vendors taking up booth space and a seemingly infinite number of products on display to the attendees moving from one exhibit to another. Trying to absorb it all is overwhelming - not unlike the challenges facing enterprise IT departments grappling with so-called "big data."

• Taxi app gets first prize in Hanover

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 March, 2012 00:49

  Intelligent Apps' myTaxi won €25,000 (US$33,000) plus two years of mentoring as the top prize among 50 contestants in CODE_n12 competition at the Cebit trade show.

• Password store for iPhone protects you by letting attackers in every time

  By Peter Sayer | 08 March, 2012 06:00

  A password store that lets attackers in every time may not sound very useful, but researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology beg to disagree.

• Big data not just about the analytics, says Amazon CTO

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 08 March, 2012 05:16

  Enterprises that are thinking about big data need to realize that it isn't just about analytics of vast amounts of data but also how that information is stored, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said during a keynote at the Cebit trade show.

• Vasco plays a tune to make online transactions more convenient

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 08 March, 2012 03:55

  Authentication specialist Vasco Data Security International has launched two new e-signature devices that can either scan an image or listen to a sound snippet to take some of the hassle out of signing online transactions, the company said on Wednesday.

• Iceotope dips its servers in liquid to cut cooling costs

  By Peter Sayer | 07 March, 2012 05:54

  Even the most efficient air-cooled data centers waste 20 percent of their power running fans inside the servers, according to British liquid-cooling specialist Iceotope, which launched its water-cooled servers at the Cebit tradeshow in Hanover on Tuesday.

• Cloud computing still a dream?

  By David Price | 04 March, 2011 01:58

  Today at CeBIT, representatives of some of the biggest names in IT came together for a discussion of cloud computing, which organisers have suggested could be the overriding theme of this year's show.