Queensland Health fires CIO

Queensland Health fires CIO Queensland Health has fired its chief information officer Paul Summergreene, following reports in June that he was being investigated over expense claims.

  • Facebook to 'punish' bad apps

    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed a change in the social networking company's approach to its application platform when he took the stage at the F8 conference in the US today.

    24 July 2008 05:47 PM

  • UK newspaper rolls out Google Docs

    The United Kingdom's Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is moving all of its 1,400 employees onto Google Apps following a successful trial of the technology.

    24 July 2008 09:56 AM

  • ABC unveils new Web TV platform

    The Australian Broadcasting Corporation tonight unveiled its new online streaming platform, allowing users to watch TV shows on the internet.

    23 July 2008 10:07 PM

  • Apple's MobileMe woes continue

    Apple continued to have problems with its new MobileMe service over the weekend and into Monday in the US, with several users unable to access their e-mail.

    23 July 2008 09:56 PM

Mr Stallman. You cannot advocate a world where the blatant copying of software is OK and property rights don't exist.

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  • Aussie domain aftermarket stalls

    A month after Australia's domain name regulator started to allow domains ending in .au to be on-sold, companies are attempting to auction Australian domains for as much as AU$1 million. However, buyers have remained reluctant to pay top-dollar for the internet addresses.

    24 July 2008 11:32 AM

  • When do we declare Google a monopoly?

    I did a double take recently after listening to Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell acknowledge that his company was ready to lose even more money in online services in the near term, if that's what it takes to catch Google.

    23 July 2008 05:32 PM

  • TechOne beats Civica to council job

    Business software vendor TechnologyOne has scored a deal with Wangaratta city council worth more than AU$1.1 million.

    23 July 2008 05:53 PM

  • RIM issues critical BlackBerry patch

    Research in Motion has released a patch for a security flaw in BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which exposed corporate networks to hackers via a maliciously crafted PDF document

    23 July 2008 02:06 PM

  • All's not well with UK NHS upgrade

    A British health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it had pulled out of the country's National Health Service e-health record program because it had lost confidence in the project following the departure of key supplier Fujitsu.

    23 July 2008 07:11 AM

  • SAP winds down TomorrowNow

    German software giant SAP today said it would shut down its TomorrowNow subsidiary, following damaging legal action with arch-rival Oracle.

    22 July 2008 08:20 PM

  • Amazon S3: For now at least, sometimes you have to reboot the cloud

    Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service, S3, spent a few hours Sunday in a big pothole on the road to the glorious cloud computing future, with an outage taking the storage system offline for several hours Sunday. Should we be surprised?

    22 July 2008 02:58 PM

  • Objective tops Tower for SA Health deal

    ASX-listed software company Objective has won a new electronic document and records management (EDRMS) contract with SA Health, leaving rival firm, Hewlett-Packard-owned Tower Software, eating its dust.

    22 July 2008 04:40 PM

  • Microsoft fixes Home Server corruption bug

    Microsoft said on Monday in the US that it has released the first update to its Windows Home Server product.

    22 July 2008 07:08 AM

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