Seven more federal government agencies, including the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, have applied to buy datacentre capacity from the government's new interim datacentre panel.
Suncorp won an award based on a working system that was built by university interns who worked gratis for three to six months, the tier two banking giant's chief information officer Jeff Smith revealed last week.
A New South Wales government project to simplify licence processes used by various government agencies is nine years behind schedule and $23 million over budget, according to the NSW Auditor-General.
Integral Energy has been struck with a virus which affected Microsoft products across its fleet of desktops.
Internet advocacy group the Electronic Frontiers Association has welcomed the move to restrict legal network interception to government and law enforcement agencies.
In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.
Debate over the National Broadband Network is heating up. Is it economic? Do we want to avoid two major networks? What will be built? How will it be funded?
Research by Roy Morgan has shown that online shopping continues to rise in Australia. Almost half of all Australians have bought something online, with travel the most popular product.
Shareholders got a rude awakening this week as Stephen Conroy made good on industry calls to break up Telstra. Some argue the government has been duplicitous and should be held to account, but those who sit tight may find the new Telstra offers a far better value proposition with better long-term opportunities.
Microsoft has created the non-profit CodePlex Foundation to target increased communication between open source communities and software companies.
If you think your job is stressful, just consider what Tony Clasquin used to do for a living: a pilot who used to work as an air traffic controller (ATC), he learned early on to manage "this very complicated 3D chessboard".
The seemingly steeped-in-tradition Federal Court surprised a few observers last week when it coolly accepted Twitter's presence in its rooms. But its broader approach to technology is nothing short of ambiguous.
The Pirate Party of Australia should forget about trying to win a Senate seat in the Federal Government and instead focus its sights on even lower hanging fruit. I speak, of course, of the state governments.
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If Telstra is serious about engaging with the Federal Government over the National Broadband Network it should immediately start the work needed to break itself in two.
Many CIOs develop business cases for a project that are too tech-centric. Gartner's Marcus Blosch reckons CIOs should couch arguments for technology within the business' commercial objectives to prise open the purse strings and get the project off the ground.
Peter Watson, chief security advisor at Microsoft Australia, said that although legislation and general awareness have helped Australia avoid becoming a haven for spammers, we are under attack from overseas.
George Stathakopoulos, general manager of product security at Microsoft, tells us how Windows XP SP2 came about and why the company is not yet ready to talk about XP SP3. He also explains that UAC in Windows Vista is designed to be part of a 'defence in depth' strategy and not a standalone security solution.
Thecus' N5500 is, like all of Thecus' lines, best suited to the professional user who doesn't mind tweaking the unit to get the most out of it.
It lacks some basic features you may require touch pad, optical drive but the 12.1-inch ThinkPad X200 offers strong performance and the longest battery life we've seen.
The world of enterprise IP telephony is varied and complex. Here's our round-up of the major players and what they can bring to your business.
There's a lot to like in the first beta of Exchange 2010, from storage improvements to new high availability tools and better integration with the cloud, not to mention Outlook Web Access support for Firefox and Safari. But not everyone will be impressed by the lack of a 32-bit GUI management client.
The GM730's feature set makes it feel like it belongs in 2008. Unless you really like the design, there are much better WiMo phones out there to choose from.
Ben Forta: All about Adobe
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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