While Australian businesses are showing increasing interest in service and process management approaches such as ITIL and CMM, that enthusiasm drops off dramatically once outsourcing comes into play, according to new data from research firm Forrester.
The National Australia Bank has unveiled details of a plan to unify its current fragmented data warehousing system onto a single platform as it fights to remain competitive with new online banking rivals.
Despite customer protests, eBay Australia is pushing ahead with plans to remove reserves from its local auctions next week, and may even extend the 'no reserves' policy into currently exempt transport categories.
Auction giant eBay is taking the unusual step of removing the option of setting a reserve price for users of its Australian site.
Australia hosts more porn pages than any other country in the region despite strict laws designed to restrict adult content.
Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.
A new phishing e-mail aimed at diverting donations to the Australian Paralympic Team has emerged -- complete with a coding error which means that the cold-hearted scam is unlikely to work.
Australian banks are lagging well behind world standards when it comes to using customer relationship management (CRM) technologies, and recent attempts to use CRM as a cost-cutting exercise may be doomed to failure, according to industry experts.
Intel's announcements at its 2007 Developer Forum in San Francisco centred around the availability of its Penryn processors later this year and future plans for its Nehalem microarchitecture, but CEO Paul Otellini also used the opening keynote to show off some cool prototypes and other fancy equipment.
Working out an IT governance scheme when you have 600,000 users in place is a challenge, but stricter project management has been so successful for the Department of Education in Victoria that the government agency is now adopting the same methodology even for non-IT projects.
Take a tour of Hostworks' high tech, and virtually impenetrable datacentre to find out how far a hosting company will go to ensure the safety of your data.
What happens when you make a long-time PC worker use a Mac? First of all, all the little differences come to the fore.
Microsoft has used its Tech Ed conference for its first Australian public showing of its Xbox Live Internet gaming service, but the launch hasn't been without its glitches.
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