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• Xamarin adds Android designer to Visual Studio

  By Paul Krill | 15 May, 2012 20:08

  Xamarin, with an upgrade to its Mono for Android SDK on Monday, is adding a drag-and-drop, graphical designer for building Android application interfaces within either Microsoft's Visual Studio or Xamarin's own MonoDevelop IDE.

• APC by Schneider Electric appoints Andrew Sylvester and Grant Barnes

  By Nermin Bajric | 06 March, 2012 10:31

  Integrated critical power and cooling services provider, APC by Schneider Electric, has appointed Andrew Sylvester as sales manager for datacentre software, and Grant Barnes as professional services and engineering solutions manager for the Pacific region.

• DOJ approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

  By Grant Gross | 14 February, 2012 10:24

  The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Google's acquisition of mobile-phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion, following the European Commission's approval earlier in the day.

• Plans to migrate LAPD to Google's cloud apps dropped

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 December, 2011 22:07

  After more than two years of trying, the City of Los Angeles has abandoned plans to migrate its police department to Google's hosted email and office application platform saying the service cannot meet certain FBI security requirements.

• Microsoft to ask for dismissal of Novell lawsuit

  By John Ribeiro | 20 December, 2011 19:29

  Microsoft intends to ask the court to dismiss a Novell antitrust lawsuit, after a hung jury in Utah could not come to an accord on the case last week.

• Microsoft-Novell antitrust case ends in hung jury

  By Joab Jackson and James Niccolai | 17 December, 2011 11:37

  After a two-month trial, Novell's US$1.3 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft ended on Friday in a hung jury, according to a spokesman for Microsoft who was at the court.

• Novell lawsuit against Microsoft goes to jury

  By Joab Jackson | 15 December, 2011 07:35

  A Utah jury has begun deliberating over a US$1 billion antitrust lawsuit Novell first brought against Microsoft in 2004. Observers of the case expect the jury to reach a decision as early as Wednesday evening.

• Opinion: Look who's discovered the virtues of openness

  By Preston Gralla | 05 December, 2011 22:06

  You know the stereotype: Microsoft is the sworn enemy of openness, unwilling to open its code or hardware to others. It's a monopolist bent on world domination, willing to use its lawyers and market strength to ensure that Windows and Office don't face any serious competition.

• Hall of Fame 2010 inductee - Steve Nola: the entrepreneur

  By Jennifer O'Brien | 22 October, 2010 11:24

  He is a pioneer in the ICT industry – one of five tech-heads seconded to run optical fibre networks back in the mid-80s for a company called Telecom, better known today as Telstra.

• Recognising the tipping point

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 01 April, 2009 17:43

  Novell vice-president of alliance and channel sales, John Donovan, has 25 years experience in IT and channels. He speaks to MATTHEW SAINSBURY about the importance of 2009 as a global tipping point, interoperability between competing vendors, and the importance of iPods over razors.

• Recognising the tipping point

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 01 April, 2009 11:33

  Novell vice-president of alliance and channel sales, John Donovan, has 25 years experience in IT and channels. He speaks to MATTHEW SAINSBURY about the importance of 2009 as a global tipping point, interoperability between competing vendors, and the importance of iPods over razors.

• Cloud Computing: Welcoming rain at harvest time

  By Trevor Clarke | 24 March, 2010 15:17

  Tending the cloud seeds and nurturing early signs of growth will require channel partners to adopt new business models and skill sets. But the stage is now set for a considerable channel play in the cloud. TREVOR CLARKE reports.

• The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later

  By Paul Krill | 19 November, 2008 08:58

  Two years ago this month, Microsoft forged its controversial partnership with Novell that, among other things, had the two companies agreeing not to sue each other over intellectual property issues, in part to protect Suse Linux users over any patent litigation from Microsoft.

• The challenge of managing mixed virtualized Linux, Windows networks

  By John Fontana | 28 October, 2008 08:14

  The sprawl of management consoles, the proliferation of data they provide and the rising use of virtualization are adding challenges to corporations looking to more effectively manage mixed Linux, Windows and cloud environments.