Although JB Hi-Fi has rolled out an IP telephony-capable Nortel phone system across 120 of its 135 stores, it said it was cheaper to continue to use the legacy Telstra voice service than power up the VoIP feature.
The Australian Capital Territory is on the cusp of signing a deal to roll out Perth's smart ticketing system for its buses.
Queensland ICT Minister Robert Schwarten suffered a misstep in his election campaign today, attacking the wrong opposition spokesperson on the Liberal National Party election policy on government ICT spending cuts.
Queensland's ICT industry this morning launched itself wholeheartedly into the state election, placing advertisements demanding support from both sides of politics to boost technology jobs and the industry as a whole.
2009 will force New Zealand's ISPs to come to grips with an amended Copyright Act, which includes a provision forcing them to disconnect customers who have allegedly infringed copyright.
Australian start-up Orange Dot has achieved early recognition for its Doo Mobile experience, which creates a new type of mobile phone suitable for use by a wide group of disabled people.
A foresighted Australian investor is selling NSW numberplates spelling "DOT COM" on online auction site eBay for a cool $400,000 minimum bid.
Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector.
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.
Hopefully, you've been spending your end-of-year break better than the executives at Optus, who seem to have taken advantage of the annual industry-wide lull to get onetime WiMax aspirant Austar United Telecommunications to the negotiating table.
Australia's IT industry needs to follow the example laid down in Queensland this week and band together to lobby for more government support instead of individual firms fruitlessly pushing their own campaigns.
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.
With Australia's ICT sector experiencing a wave of layoffs, it's time to look for the positives. Take a leaf out of Steve Jobs' book and ask yourself what would you be doing if money wasn't important?
Despite its clear benefits in stock tracking and the success of early, isolated pilot tests in tracking high-value assets, RFID technology is still spinning its wheels as ongoing high costs and unclear return on investment continue to keep once-enthusiastic customers away in droves.
Microsoft's annual Tech.Ed conference hit Sydney's Darling Harbour this week. ZDNet.com.au took these photos to show you what you were missing if you couldn't go.
The new film, retells the story of the dot-com implosion in the summer of 2001. CNET.com's Kara Tsuboi met with August director Austin Chick and one of the movie's stars, Adam Scott.
Gideon Sasson, the CIO of financial services giant Charles Schwab, talks to ZDNet.com editor-in-chief Dan Farber about mistakes the company made during the dot com bust, and says innovation used to start with technology, but now IT is more closely aligned with the business. Below are excerpts from the video interview.
The Compaq Presario CQ61-217 adds a little bit of extra quality to the sub-AU$1000 market, though sacrifices on its network capability. For AU$799 though, it's a steal, and if you're not concerned by some of the lacking components, this one's a good buy.
Asus reinvents its iconic netbook with the slim, attractive Eee PC 1008HA, a bold experiment that largely works.
Asus hits nearly all the marks in the 1005HA-H, the latest version of its iconic Eee PC, highlighted by a six-hour-plus battery life.
The U50Vg has some annoying design issues, but it's a great laptop that can be relied on when out and about.
We've tested plenty of printers at CNET, but very few have frustrated us as much as the Brother DCP-165C multifunction has. The counter-intuitive set-up, bland design, deplorable print quality and crawling output speeds earn this printer a double thumbs down.
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