News (70)

  • Melbourne IT nabs Seek CIO

    Domain name and web hosting specialist Melbourne IT has hired former Seek chief information officer Tam Vu to lead a new project to provide broad integrated web services to customers.

  • "Swipe off" danger for Myki users

    Melbourne public transport users could be slugged more than the cost of their fare if they fail to "swipe off" under the new electronic ticketing system, it was revealed this week.

  • Apple devices hit cafe sweet-spot

    Nearly 50 per cent of devices used to access free wireless across inner city Melbourne and Sydney run Apple operating systems, according to ISP Unwired.

  • ANZ to send 500 IT jobs to India

    In yet another shake-out of the Melbourne banking scene, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group today confirmed it would send around 500 information technology and back office jobs to India by year's end.

  • Optus outage; as CFO promoted

    Optus customers in Sydney and Melbourne today had problems accessing their 3G wireless broadband services as another outage dogged the carrier.

Blogs (4)

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Manjrasoft's forecast: Cloudy but fine

    If Melbourne University spin-off Manjrasoft can find the venture capital funds it stands a strong chance its technology could prove a winner.

  • Robbing Joe the Shearer to pay Paul

    Joe the Shearer can wait. Telstra is clearly going to roll out its NBN in capital cities first, where the most customers live and, despite Telstra's assertions, many residents already have access to decent broadband.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    US shows what OPEL could have been

    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra's BT coat doesn't fit

    The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.

Features and Case Studies (13)

  • Photos: Linux.conf.au 2008

    This year's linux.conf.au conference, held at Melbourne University, was an all out Linux free-for-all. Highlights include images of the new XO Linux laptop and an interview with Linus Torvalds.

  • Linus Torvalds at Linux.conf.au 2008

    Linus Torvalds is the star guest at Australia's annual Linux conference. ZDNet.com.au once again took a video crew to Melbourne in January and caught up with the man behind Linux.

  • Managing data at Melbourne IT

    Managing data can be difficult, especially if you have almost 500 terabytes of storage and spend $10,000 a month on backup tapes. This case study looks at how Melbourne IT, one of Australia's biggest web hosting companies, handles storage

  • Telco 2008: A year in review

    2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.

  • Changing of the guard: ANZ Bank

    Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's technology operation in the third of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

Reviews (1)

  • Four mid-range servers compared

    What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.

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