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• Chiapazzo steps into lead Aruba in A/NZ

  By Julia Talevski | 29 August, 2011 16:18

  Networking vendor, Aruba Networks, has hired Vincent Chiappazzo as its new managing director for A/NZ, following the departure of Greg Barnes.

• 100 years of IBM: Milestones

  By Marc Ferranti | 17 June, 2011 00:23

  IBM is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding Thursday. Led by American capitalist icons Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. until the 1970s, the company grew from a pre-World War I conglomeration of companies making tabulating machines and time-keeping devices into a globe-spanning technology behemoth that pioneered the development of electronic computers and dominated the mainframe era.

• Lenovo hires Finney as new channel sales director

  By Julia Talevski | 18 August, 2010 11:06

  Lenovo has appointed Darren Finney as its new channel sales director.

• HP Expands Battery Recall: Prevent Fire or Injury

  By Tony Bradley | 23 May, 2010 07:59

  If you have used a laptop computer, you are aware that they generate a substantial amount of heat. The battery is one of the components that generates the most heat, and in the case of specific batteries from HP, the heat may be enough to spark a fire or cause significant injury. That is why HP has expanded a recall to include an additional 54,000 batteries.

• Top 10 funniest tech ads ever made

  By Spandas Lui | 16 April, 2010 12:13

  The beer industry may dominate in the ‘almost-peed-my-pants’ funny commercials front, but the technology sector has also made some hilarious ads in the past.

• HP's smartbook may battle it out with Apple's iPad

  By Agam Shah | 15 February, 2010 06:15

  Hewlett-Packard's first smartbook, the Compaq AirLife 100, announced on Friday, could be a rival to Apple's iPad as the two companies aim to attract buyers looking for netbook alternatives, analysts said.

• HP debuts Android-based smartbook

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 15 February, 2010 06:11

  Hewlett-Packard has launched the Compaq AirLife 100, a smartbook based on the Android OS and Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor, it said on Friday.

• Top 10 tech stories of the decade

  By Marc Ferranti | 29 December, 2009 04:50

  While the computer industry in the 1990s thrived as corporations re-engineered business processes to incorporate IT, this decade has seen technology truly become part of mainstream culture and commerce via the Internet and ever-cheaper and smaller computing devices. Yes, the Internet revolution began in the '90s, but it was not until this decade that 14-year-olds raced ahead of professionals in figuring out how to tap social networks with hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of contacts. Here, in not-quite chronological order, are the top technology stories of the decade, selected by the IDG News Service for their singular impact on the industry as well as their emblematic status as examples of the trends that shaped the course of IT.

• HP's history of billion-dollar technology buys

  By Denise Dubie | 13 November, 2009 05:13

  HP's news that it would lay down $US2.7 billion to acquire network switch maker 3Com not only causes industry watchers to look ahead at what could come of such a deal, but also reminds many of the IT vendor's long history of billion-dollar acquisitions.

• Apple clobbers Windows PC makers in customer service survey

  By Gregg Keizer | 21 April, 2009 08:11

  Apple beat rival computer makers such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell by wide margins in a recent customers satisfaction survey, an analyst said Monday.