Australian internet users now consume twice as much data than they did a year ago, but figures by Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal there are still over 200,000 businesses and government agencies on a dial-up connection.
Jetstar's "doing it for a dollar less" mentality has meant that the airline has accepted the risk that it might not be up all the time in exchange for cheaper services, CIO Stephen Tame said today.
A company that measures internet service reliability has given Microsoft the top score in a test of operating system update services.
How many Australian scientists does it take to make the countries' biggest light bulb? Our photo gallery takes you inside the Synchrotron, Australia's only particle accelerator that creates high-intensity light for scientific imaging.
SurfControl today opened its first datacentre in Australia -- its 10th in the world -- to reach a market the company's executives see as ripe for on-demand Web and e-mail security.
Could cloud computing be used to deliver a national driver's license registration scheme that was sold to states as a service? Probably not, say four Queensland Government IT chiefs, including state CIO Alan Chapman.
In a test of over a thousand Web sites in Europe, Linux-based servers were found to be faster and more reliable than sites based on Microsoft's IIS Web server software.
In this video interview, Jetstar CIO Stephen Tame explains technology's part in helping the airline meet its goals, as well as the role IT plays as it expands into a number of long-haul international destinations.
When one of Waiariki Institute of Technology's servers went down a month ago, it was an opportunity -- unwanted, no doubt -- to test the restore capabilities of the institute's new backup system, implemented after years of problems with backups.
In the digital era, why don't planes beam more flight data directly to a network of ground stations?
The N7700 is one heck of a NAS box if you need something to take seven drives and have nowhere to put a rack mount unit.
Google Docs is a fantastic free online application that offers some exciting features. However, by virtue of being an online application, users with a slow connection will experience lag, and Docs still doesn't contain enough functionality to be a replacement for today's mainstay office suites in most businesses.
Google has repackaged and enhanced its business-oriented software offerings into a paid-subscription suite known as Google Apps Premier Edition.
The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.
Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.
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