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GUEST OPINION:  It’s been a big year for automation in Australia. Against a backdrop of widespread efficiency drives, the technology has proven its effectiveness and value across a broad array of use cases, easing the administrative burden on lean operational teams and helping them to absorb growing business-as-usual demands without a linear increase in costs.

Splunk Enterprise 9.0 has reached general availability, meaning it’s out right now for Splunk cloud and on-premises users alike. The product includes more than 40 major new features and over 100 additional enhancements. This includes federated search across non-Splunk data and strong unification of security and observability.

It might not be BlackBerry's 'Defence Department' trusted level of email, but the PlayBook finally gets its OS 2.0 and native email, calendaring and more, adding a new lease of life to RIM's trim tablet.

RIM's status as a super-secure provider of email access has been dented a little thanks to news of a hack that could allow a very organised hacker to target a non-tech savvy Playbook user and read their emails and calendar entries, while the RIM sale rumours keep on coming, with Samsung fingered as the latest potential buyer.

Research in Motion has confirmed that products running its next operating system - formerly named BBX but now BlackBerry 10 - will not be available until the latter part of calendar 2012.

US software company, BASIS International, has secured a temporary restraining order preventing Research In Motion from using the term BBX to denote its upcoming operating system.

In a move somewhat reminiscent of Harvey Norman's 'fire sale' of the HP TouchPad, Optus is giving away the BlackBerry PlayBook with the BlackBerry Torch 9860 on certain plans.

An investment analyst in Research in Motion's home country, Canada, has made a gloomy prognosis for the BlackBerry maker in the wake of RIM's $US485m write down of its PlayBook inventory.

Research In Motion has unveiled a new platform for BlackBerry devices, BlackBerry BBX, claiming that it takes the best of the BlackBerry platform and the best of the QNX platform that underpins its Playbook tablet.

Does Ovum's Tony Cripps see blips in BlackBerry's future, or as the tide that lifts all of RIM's ships?

The Defence Signals Directorate has cleared the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet for use by government agencies.

News reports say RIM is cutting 2000 jobs from the company in what is deemed to be a 'prudent and necessary step'.

When you live in 'bank world' and want to make life easier for everyone else that doesn't, you need to do what the Commonwealth Bank is doing: enabling real-time mobile banking on any device, any time and virtually anywhere.

It's been a while coming, but Flash developers can now build apps for iPhone, iPad, PlayBook, and Android devices.

June 20's the date when RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook launches out of the Australian gate, with twelve days to go before the end of the wait.

RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook is an impressive first-generation tablet from the Canadian smartphone maker, and while its initial introduction has seen some months elapse before local availability, RIM's tablet is now nearly here.

EA has announced that Need for Speed Undercover and Tetris will be available for the BlackBerry PlayBook when RIM's new device ships.

When it comes to RIM PlayBook's battery life, an analyst suggest it's not so good, but RIM says it's 'comparable' to competitors - let's hope for RIM's sake they're right, or some consumers might find the PlayBook is the PrayBook when it comes to there being power when you need it!

Research firm Strategy Analytics says Apple took 95% of the 4.4 million unit worldwide tablet market, while another firm finds unusually high satisfaction ratings among iPad owners.