Stories about: Agilent

There are many ways to secure a job in IT while studying, and applying for an ACS Foundation scholarship is one of them.

The world's first transceiver integrated on a single chip that operates at 60GHz on the CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) process, which is the most common semiconductor technology, was announced today by NICTA.

The federal government has made available an additional $4.8 million over two years for Australia's ICT research centre of excellence, NICTA.

Makers of 10G Ethernet products came away from a recent University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab plug fest with results they think will boost acceptance of the technology in corporate networks.

The sale of Avaya is just the latest in an increasing number of private-equity buyouts of technology companies that might not be good things for customers.

I chaired an interesting meeting the other day. It was me against senior executives of Cisco, Agilent Technologies and Novell.

Social network computing is sweeping across the globe at a wholesale rate but could an Australian company create the next MySpace, YouTube or iPod?

An Indian services company has agreed to buy Objective Systems Integrators, the telecom support systems business of Agilent Technologies.

By some estimates, the total value of the applications residing on mainframes today exceeds US$1 trillion. Most of that code was written over the past 40 years in Cobol, with some assembler, PL/1 and 4GL thrown into the mix. Unfortunately, those programs don't play well with today's distributed systems, and the amount of legacy code at companies such as Sabre Holdings in Texas, makes a rewrite a huge undertaking. "We're bound by our software and its lack of portability," Sabre Vice President Alan Walker says of the 40,000 programs still running on IBM Transaction Processing Facility (TPF), Agilent Modular Power System and other mainframe systems.

Europe's third largest chipmaker will sell its semiconductor unit to a group of private investment firms in a deal worth Euro 8.3 billion ($US10.6 billion), increasing the pace of consolidation in the industry.

Demand for undergraduate degrees in IT continued to drop this year, with preferences shifting away from traditional computer science, engineering and programming subjects to newer offerings such as game development and degrees that combine arts or business subjects.