Queensland ICT Minister Robert Schwarten claimed today that the industry lobbying campaign carried out by the state's ICT Workgroup during Queensland's last election didn't have any effect.
Queensland's ICT industry this morning launched itself wholeheartedly into the state election, placing advertisements demanding support from both sides of politics to boost technology jobs and the industry as a whole.
A large number of Queensland ICT industry luminaries donned red and yellow T-shirts to dominate the floor at an election debate in Brisbane between Premier Anna Bligh and opposition leader Lawrence Springborg.
Queensland ICT Minister Robert Schwarten suffered a misstep in his election campaign today, attacking the wrong opposition spokesperson on the Liberal National Party election policy on government ICT spending cuts.
Political parties are expected to use the Internet to blast home their final election messages, as the Web is immune to ACMA's pre-election propaganda ban.
Patch Monday makes its timely return and is armed with another week of stories, interviews and rumours to digest.
There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a particular technology has hit its physical limits.
Like the engineers that sat down on day one with an empty blackboard and a mission to get man to the moon and back, building the NBN from the ground up is a daunting and complex opportunity that will present more than its share of challenges.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.
Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first.
Australia's IT industry needs to follow the example laid down in Queensland this week and band together to lobby for more government support instead of individual firms fruitlessly pushing their own campaigns.
Demand for Australian IT executives is predicted to rise steadily over the next year as the economy re-enters a growth phase and companies resist using IT departments as a sacrificial goat for cost savings, according to Grant Montgomery, the managing director of E.L. Consult
Good times are underway for Australia's information technology workforce, with advertised information and communications technology positions due to grow sharply for the first six months of the year.
The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.
A sharp rise in private sector demand for IT executives' heralds good news for the beleaguered sector, despite an overall decline in the number of jobs advertised for IT management.
You think spam techniques are driving you mad now... just take a look at what's in store.
Chipmaker Intel not only wants to get inside the personal computer, it now wants to be outside, too, amid slumping demand for PCs that has Intel touting new consumer devices to change the way PCs are used.
Do you Google Wave?
If you want attention online, then mention that you have a couple of Google Wave invites to giveaway and watch… Watch it now
Thunderbird 3 takes flight
Thunderbird 3 is finally here, after a gestation period measured in
years. The latest version of Mozilla's fr… Watch it now
Google Chrome beta for Mac
It's not fully baked yet, but Google Chrome for Mac reaches a major milestone with the release of an official … Watch it now
How do you build a smarter planet?
Having problems with complex data center? Simplify your data center now.
Welcome to National Censorship Day
That sinking Tcard feeling
The challenge of government 2.0
Best Servers
Want to find out what the best servers are?
Check out the top rated here!
Optus Deal
Broadband + home phone + PlayStation®3 in a single package price!
Click here for more!
Best Laptops
Check out the best laptops here!
Click here for more.
