TechnologyOne has decided not to increase the pay packets of its executives and directors this year on the back of its 2009 results released today.
Microsoft's fourth-generation answer to Adobe Flash, Silverlight 4, was released overnight at the software giant's 2009 Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) announced today that it had selected a CIO to replace Peter Dalton who left that position last year.
The National Broadband Network Company has nabbed Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's chief of staff to be its new government relations and external affairs chief, as well as separately appointing a chief information officer.
Victoria Police's IT division under disgraced chief information officer Valda Berzins had a "disregard for proper procurement and contract management", a new report has revealed, which saw contracts fail to go to tender while their dollar values ballooned beyond approved amounts.
In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Getting Senator Stephen Conroy's regulatory reform for the telecommunications industry through the parliament would need support from the Senate. On Twisted Wire we ring around to see which parties are supportive and which are against.
The fact that Australia won't be represented at either of the globe's pre-eminent showcases for emerging tech companies should be considered a national disgrace.
In this week's Twisted Wire podcast, Tasmanian NBN chair Doug Campbell talks about the roll-out of the National Broadband Network in that state, as well as its economic viability and the path ahead.
Is Australia and New Zealand Banking Group suffering from a lack of strategic IT leadership as its year-long search for a new chief information officer drags on?
How on earth can organisations justify paying their IT executives millions of dollars in bonuses, or in the case of the public sector, handing out salaries of half a million dollars?
If you think your job is stressful, just consider what Tony Clasquin used to do for a living: a pilot who used to work as an air traffic controller (ATC), he learned early on to manage "this very complicated 3D chessboard".
There's a certain ridiculousness to Alcatel-Lucent's National Broadband Network video production that goes to the heart of an obvious worry that it will ultimately be left out when the cheques are signed.
Longhaus' Sam Higgins and Perth developer Chris Muir give the Australian reaction to announcements at Oracle's OpenWorld conference in the US this week.
At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division, explains how Microsoft plans to apply Web 2.0 technology, such as self-service and groups of people contributing to applications, to the enterprise. In an interview with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Elops also details Microsoft's plans to release ad-supported programs.
Scott Charney, who heads up Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) prompts are unexpected and not intuitive.
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What's the best mid-range server on the market? We put machines from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Lenovo through their paces in our labs.
If you want to use Cisco for your corporate IP telephony network but can't afford a 7900 series phone for everyone, it's a no-brainer to check out the lower-specced 6900 series.
HP may have arrived late to the consumer netbook game, but by lifting the generous keyboard from last year's business-oriented model, the Mini 1000 easily joins the category's top tier.
OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 is a free, open source alternative to Microsoft's Office application suite. It is fantastic if you need basic office applications such as a word processor or spreadsheet at no cost. However, large organisations and power users may be disappointed by its lack of features and support.
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