The NSW Government is evaluating the benefits of software as a service and open source software in a bid to rationalise and reduce the costs of its software procurement, according to a Request for Information document released today.
When Monash University's long-term chief information officer Alan McMeekin leaves the university next month, he will be handing over a half completed, prolonged migration from Thunderbird to Lotus Notes.
Authorities say an Australian woman who fell in love online was duped out of nearly $US50,000 ($A54,095) by a Nigerian man who said he was her Mr Right.
Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser has defended the $450,000 National Broadband Network Company annual pay package for Premier Anna Bligh's outgoing chief of staff, saying he is a very talented man.
A landmark court ruling over the One.Tel collapse has brought its special purpose liquidator closer in his pursuit of Lachlan Murdoch and James Packer on behalf of creditors.
It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.
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.
The salary of Mike Kaiser, the National Broadband Network Company's government relations and external affairs chief, has been outed by a senate motion started by Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin yesterday.
How on earth can organisations justify paying their IT executives millions of dollars in bonuses, or in the case of the public sector, handing out salaries of half a million dollars?
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.
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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