Despite announcing yesterday that the US$30 billion US homeland security sector is open to Australian technology suppliers, the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) has admitted that suppliers face regulatory restrictions and stiff competition with companies from up to 60 other countries on the US government tender list.
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The merger of industry regulators, the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) and the Australian Communications Authority (ACA), will be first on the agenda should Helen Coonan be reassigned to the communications and information technology portfolio, her spokeswoman said today.
Western Australia's Department of Education and Training has completed a technology infrastructure upgrade at 100 schools, with another 105 to go.
The federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) has flagged plans to migrate to an Internet Protocol-based (IP) telephony system, keeping its options open on a full unified communications move.
Melbourne-based technology start-up ExitReality confirmed yesterday that it had lost its chief executive just before it formally launched last week.
Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
Labor's policy of socialised broadband has certainly proved much harder than the party believed it would be back when it was in Opposition, but it is Telstra that stands to lose the most from the NBN - and that applies whether it loses the NBN contract or wins it.
A quick scan of almost any ICT department, ICT conference or vendor environment confirms that women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
Technology is a catalyst for business change, but that change doesn't always sit well with departments that have their own sovereignty to look after. David Braue asks whether IT can be centralised and distributed at the same time.
ID management expert Phil Libin says critics knocking an upcoming government security program miss the point.
A "failure to invest [in] and failure to enforce" information technology safety measures will lead to an increase in organisational security breaches around the world, according to advisory and research body Ernst & Young.
IT departments want their applications delivered over wireless and don't much care what kind of wireless technology is used.
One in 10 IT departments will disappear over the next five years as outsourcing and the commoditisation of technology continues to increase, according to Gartner.
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