Electronic payment vendor Hypercom said it had signed an approximately $50 million five-year deal with Westpac Banking Corporation.
Trials carried out on the technology for Victoria's massive smart meter roll-out failed to provide "reasonable assurance" on its viability, according to the Victorian Auditor-General in a report slamming the project.
Optus has spent $103 million over the past three months bolstering its 3G network to support the one product category showing significant growth prepaid.
South Australian internet service provider, Adam Internet, has turned on its first WiMax tower, an effort its chieftain Scott Hicks described as a "minor miracle".
Coca-Cola has been issued with a formal warning over a spam marketing campaign but it was spared a monetary penalty, unlike the three other companies involved, which included Vodafone.
Some of the 500,000 visitors expected to walk through the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition on the Sydney coastline this November can be excused for saying they are seeing things that aren't really there.
Eighteen months after the Federal Government severed an important lifeline for innovative Australian start-ups, a new $196 million program has been announced to help fill the Australian funding void. But will it really help?
Having one of your biggest customers roast you in the media as "slow to react to a catastrophic systems failure" and "unwilling to apologise" for it is not a good look for IBM New Zealand.
Two entrepreneurs flying the flag for Australia at the prestigious DemoFall 09 showcase in Silicon Valley last week made their presence known in the best possible way: by beating 70 other attendees to be named the best enterprise product.
Telecom needs to quickly jettison the forced Visionstream owner-operator deal for lines techies if it cares about its image.
Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.
Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it Telstra and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.
It's been just over 12 months since Peter Nikoletatos moved west to take over the role of CIO at Perth's Curtin University of Technology. Since then, he's been working to manage the inevitable complexities of university IT while making sure he has enough time to keep his head in the clouds.
There are large conferences, and then there is Oracle OpenWorld. A mega-conference that sees over 40,000 attendees descend on San Francisco.
On this episode of Planet CNET, we learn about cameras for French espionage, a not-so-bright idea from the U.K., and joining the mile-high club in the skies over Australia.
From cattle class to the $22,000 suites, we take you on a video tour of a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380.
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz talk about the recent announcement that Hewlett-Packard will be reducing its workforce by nearly 25,000 due to its integration with EDS. They also discuss how HP is competing with IBM for more IT services market share.
Google Apps has "over 10 million active users" and every day, 3,000 new businesses are signing up, according to Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise.
Most people who visit the T-Visionarium at UNSW's iCinema centre are gob smacked by the experience, but some leave disappointed after finding out there are only 8,000 pixels.
Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
Microsoft Security Essentials is recommended for those who want something to set and ignore, but users who want more robust configuration choices or don't want to contribute to the cloud should look elsewhere.
Asus' high-end wireless router has plenty of throughput grunt, but we do wish the company would offer better support documentation.
While the lack of supported online expansion and de-dupe is a concern, if you need your tape backups to go faster, Tandberg's DPS1200 VTL may deliver what you need.
Adaptec has upped the enterprise storage ante by incorporating an SSD as a cache on its 2 and 5 series controllers, calling the technology MaxIQ.
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