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SERVICES giant EDS Australia will continue to aggressively compete with its suitor Hewlett-Packard until their marriage is consummated.

Facing serious challenges to its dominance in the RIA (rich Internet application) space, Adobe Systems will refresh its bread-and-butter Flash Player technology Thursday with capabilities that could provide an edge on the RIA battleground.Adobe officials argued that improvements in its new Flash Player 10 such as custom filters and effects are merely in response to customer demands. But the company nonetheless has seen its market niche -- rich graphical presentations via a browser plugin -- become more crowded lately. Microsoft's highly touted Silverlight technology is drawing attention from companies such as NBC while Sun plans to leverage the prevalence of its Java technology to promote its budding JavaFX RIA platform.Analysts see Flash Player 10 as an answer to what else is going on in the marketplace."Everything in this space is a response," to keep up with the competition, said Jeffrey Hammond, senior analyst at Forrester. Flash, though, remains a leader with capabilities in drawi

Ford Sync, developed in partnership with Microsoft, is a voice-activated, in-car communications and entertainment system. Despite a solid initial implementation, Sync's feature set reveals the immaturity of the user interface in the automotive environment.

THE G9 consortium could delay lodging its bond to participate in the federal Government's national broadband network tender.

Internal interviews must be disclosed to AMD AMD vs Intel Intel has been ordered to hand over secret employee interviews from an internal investigation looking into documents and e-mails that went missing during its antitrust trial with AMD..

Over the last few days the Web has been abuzz with discussion about how users on Twitter, the online social messaging system, beat the mainstream media with news of the devastating earthquake in China. Most of the discussion has centered around how users were fast in getting information out against mainstream media Web sites, but does the claim really hold-up?

Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com and Intel plan to jointly develop a computer designed to get small and medium-sized Chinese businesses online, the companies said this week.

A French blog has posted pictures of what looks to be Asustek computer's Eee PC 901, an upcoming version of the low-cost computer that is likely based on Intel's Atom processor.

IBM has started selling software that lets customers access its Cognos business intelligence software via BlackBerry mobile devices.

FEDERAL bureaucrats are back in charge of the e-health reform agenda with the Rudd Government allocating $60.6 million to solving technological "challenges".