Coca-Cola has been issued with a formal warning over a spam marketing campaign but it was spared a monetary penalty, unlike the three other companies involved, which included Vodafone.
MYOB subsidiary SmartyHost has been castigated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for breaching the Spam Act.
The Queensland government has formed a multi-vendor panel to provide electronic document and records management systems across the whole of the state government.
Peter Grant, the Queensland Government's former chief information officer, has left Microsoft after just 16 months with the software giant.
SMS Management and Techhnology has lost its NSW managing director Linda Chapman for health reasons.
As soon as one government decides to do a new project it's a good bet that others will follow suit, in the ultimate fashion obsession.
Even the dim-witted bad guys in the Bond flick Quantum of Solace know that concentrating lots of power in a small place may not be the best idea. So how could Stephen Conroy and ACMA have been surprised when the alleged web filter blacklist made its debut?
So there I was, craving a pizza and dialling my local Domino's for a BBQ Meat Lover's special.
Those of us who've spent a bit of time attending conferences around Australia will know that every event has its bloopers. This week's Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG) conference held in Sydney was certainly no exception.
Despite a changing of the guard in several influential departments and offices in the past 2-years (Health, Transport, Emergency Services, Police, Premier's, Public Works, and QGCIO, to name a few), the true identity of ICT influence in Queensland government still rests with the agency CIOs.
Could cloud computing be used to deliver a national driver's license registration scheme that was sold to states as a service? Probably not, say four Queensland Government IT chiefs, including state CIO Alan Chapman.
The main barrier to managing the explosion in data is a lack of storage management tools, says research firm Gartner.
While the tech industry has a history of pay inequity between men and women, recent surveys show this may be balancing out. However, pay is not the only factor at play in the workplace battle of the sexes.
Samsung Korea is about to release a CDMA mobile phone that includes a digital still camera and 1.5-inch colour LCD screen. Other planned versions include an Internet phone, MP3 phone, TV phone and Watch phone.
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