A conference to be held at the University of New South Wales on the future of fast broadband will cost taxpayers $528,000.
The Federal Government today revealed it had organised what it described as a "major forum" on the future of Australia's digital economy in the wake of the construction of the National Broadband Network.
Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy has won the support of the Greens, independent Nick Xenophon and Family First's Steven Fielding to have the government's telecommunications reform legislation debated before the end of the year.
Drinks company Coca-Cola Amatil said today in an investment conference that it had finished the second phase of its technology transformation, rolling out an SAP supply chain system to over 30 locations.
Microsoft on Monday is announcing that it will release in November a public test version of Office 2010.
Some of the 500,000 visitors expected to walk through the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition on the Sydney coastline this November can be excused for saying they are seeing things that aren't really there.
As Oracle gets bigger and bigger, one question remains unanswered: what type of company is Oracle?
Around one third of Australia's telcos have shut their doors over time, but that isn't stopping new ventures hoping to chip away at carriers' mobile call bonanza. By fighting carriers at the smartphone rather than the home phone, could the latest two contenders be onto something big?
Turns out that the "developer preview" of Google's latest creation, Google Wave, is not as open as one would expect, with the preview only being open to attendees of Google's I/O conference but there is another way to see it in action. And forget wanting to use IE6 with it.
It's a long-standing policy that if you contribute to a conference, you receive free entry. The easiest way to contribute is to do a talk, and until the end of June you can set that up by responding to OSDC 2009's call for papers.
Sydney's first ever Media140 conference, held at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) studios, drew around 300 academics, journalists and media enthusiasts to discuss the benefits and risks that professionals face in using open social networks, such as Twitter.
Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.
There are large conferences, and then there is Oracle OpenWorld. A mega-conference that sees over 40,000 attendees descend on San Francisco.
Longhaus' Sam Higgins and Perth developer Chris Muir give the Australian reaction to announcements at Oracle's OpenWorld conference in the US this week.
Adobe's attempt to bring its AIR platform to all handheld devices smells strongly of Sun's attempt to dominate the smartphone market with Java. But will the software giant's efforts suffer the same fate?
At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than its biggest competitor, IBM.
ZDNet.com.au took a tour backstage to see the hardware needed to run a large conference.
At the Mobilize conference held in San Francisco, Motorola unveiled Motoblur, a new user interface based around social networking. The Android OS-based skin will feature live widgets for integrating sites like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace, as well as aggregating contact details and displaying recent status updates during calls.
Apple always manages to deliver some surprises at its annual World Wide Developers Conference. Our panel of experts sits down to discuss what it expects to see this year.
Security-as-a-service was the big theme at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco. ZDNet.com editor in chief Larry Dignan talks with senior editor Sam Diaz, and security blogger Ryan Naraine about how companies are securing the cloud.
Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.
Developers make good stress testers, and the initial Wave service has had a lot of testing in the last few months. We take a ride on the wave, which should be opening to a wider beta program at the end of September.
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.
The appliance format of the Kbox 1000 puts a new slant on systems management, making the process significantly easier, quicker and more affordable compared to traditional software-only solutions.
Avaya's Aura is a suite of communication products, all bundled together in an effort to reach the dream of unified communications for businesses.
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