Centrelink claims maintenance work on its backup power supply caused a datacentre outage last week the second such failure in as many years.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced the Startup Accelerator Programme, aimed at helping UK tech start-ups achieve long-term success
Foreign e-businesses face a number of daunting barriers as they prepare to launch e-commerce in China, but many are beginning to lay the groundwork.
Power surges and sags caused by wild fires in the Sydney basin have done untold damage to computing infrastructure, and highlighted the need for business continuity protection.
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.
One of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes.
Three new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney".
Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".
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Databases have been available with an open-source licence for many years. But the past few months have seen a growing number of partnerships and products aimed at maturing the industry of add-ons and support services -- vital to winning over corporate customers.
Mashups involving digital maps are bridging the gap between the virtual and physical worlds, with uses ranging from local shopping and traffic reports to online dating and community organising.
With a US$1 billion annual budget, Kenneth W. Lacy, CIO of parcel carrier UPS, has one of the biggest jobs in IT. He talks about his challenges, including a $200 million Wi-Fi project in a recent interview.
Power surges and sags caused by wild fires in the Sydney basin have done untold damage to computing infrastructure, and highlighted the need for business continuity protection.
Google Apps has "over 10 million active users" and every day, 3,000 new businesses are signing up, according to Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise.
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.
Suffering from blackouts, brownouts, or sags? How about bushfires, floods, or cyclones? Then maybe you need a UPS. We review six UPS appliances.
Most computer users are vigilant when it comes to the possibility of virus attacks and other technological threats. There is, however, one potential disaster that can strike anywhere, anytime, that’s not taken seriously by some – the possibility of a power outage. A preventative UPS device is much more valuable than an expensive cure.
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