The Western Australian Government is currently considering forming new chief information officer and chief technology officer roles to guide the government through service modernisation.
Human Services Minister Chris Bowen has announced a reform of the human services portfolio which includes consolidating the IT function of its constituent agencies.
The Federal Government today released draft legislation to assign a unique healthcare identifier number to every provider and consumer, as agreed to the Coalition of Australian Governments meeting earlier this week.
Westpac said today in an update on its transformation and integration with acquisition St George that it would transition to the "next generation of Hogan" as its deposits platform.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday ordered Australian resident Lance Atkinson to pay over US$15.15 million for his role as the leader of what has been called the largest "spam gang" in the world.
After the global financial crisis placed green IT on the back-burner, is it about to become sexy again due to the likes of New Zealand's new emissions trading scheme?
Telstra and TransACT will shortly begin offering 100Mbps broadband to many customers. By moving early, the companies have not only raised the bar for Australia's broadband services, but thrown down a challenge to a government that now faces increased pressure to deliver the NBN as promised.
It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.
Are cheap external USB video cards good enough to power an extra monitor or five, and what are their pitfalls? Won't handle 3D acceleration? Take up valuable CPU cycles? Leave dirty dishes around your desk and have a bad odour?
The latest and greatest version of the Oracle database, 11g Release 2, was made available recently and as the resident technical person, it fell to me to take it for a spin. Little did I realise the hell that I had just walked into.
The average traveller may think of air travel in terms of security checks and airport lounges, but Melbourne Airport IT manager Mark Funston has a completely different perspective.
Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
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The "Anonymous" hacker group gave Australia's police forces a month's warning that it was going to attack the Federal Government. Why didn't the Australian Federal Police's electronic crimes unit do anything about it?
The 2009 edition of Microsoft's premier Australian developer conference, Tech.Ed, kicked off this morning at the Gold Coast with over 2000 attendees on hand.
At JavaOne in San Francisco, Telenor's Fritjof Bogner Engelhardtsen and Sun's James Gosling look at a new experimental development platform for SIM cards. The Java platform allows programmers to design new mobile services including adding sensors and Wi-Fi radio directly on the card.
At WWDC 2009, Apple unveiled the new 15-inch Macbook Pro. The new laptop comes with a better battery, SD Card slot and a new processor.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the next-generation MacBook Pro with a new aluminum body, a 15-inch display, a multitouch trackpad, and a faster graphics card.
Intel chairman Craig Barrett introduces innovative projects such as a $50 digital whiteboard created from a Wii remote, and a mobile phone that can read bar codes on a health ID card.
With millions of customers at AGL paying by credit card, Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007, explains the importance of security and why outsourcing it is a bad idea. Tizi also talks about why Australia should implement stringent data disclosure laws.
Lexmark's latest printer comes with a platinum card style price point, but it's too slow for all but the most patient print users.
On the surface the Spica looks like a very competent smartphone, but we're beginning to expect a lot more from manufacturers that take on Google's OS.
It doesn't quite live up to its own battery hype, otherwise Asus' thin and light laptop is pretty good.
With excellent web browsing, email and access to apps, the HTC Hero is one of the few mobiles to truly challenge the iPhone this year.
While it's hard to recommend it as an upgrade to current Bold owners, the 9700 is an outstanding phone in its own right and is still among the best handsets for business users.
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