The Queensland Government Chief Procurement Office reached a preliminary agreement this week with the state's IT contracting industry on a new model to achieve the government's saving aims, according to the Australian Information Industry Association.
Putting the troubled history of its nowwearetalking website behind it, Telstra has re-launched its efforts to communicate with customers and stakeholders online, focused on a new blogging site dubbed "Telstra Exchange".
A health informatics professor from Sydney University today said Australia's e-health systems should be strictly open source rather than using proprietary software.
Just as the marketing hype around Windows 7 heads towards its peak, a few details are starting to surface about its likely successor.
The Victorian Government has extended its mobile data network (MDN) contract with Motorola until December 2014 in a deal worth $96 million.
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.
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.
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.
The global financial crisis might have tarnished some of Silicon Valley's lustre, but for many Australian technology entrepreneurs who have migrated to the US, it hasn't lost its bright shiny status.
It comes at no surprise to learn that HR people use IT certifications to choose between candidates when hiring, but in some organisations it can also inhibit career advancement.
When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.
There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.
It's been just over 12 months since Peter Nikoletatos moved west to take over the role of CIO at Perth's Curtin University of Technology. Since then, he's been working to manage the inevitable complexities of university IT while making sure he has enough time to keep his head in the clouds.
I've been puttering around in Google Wave for the best part of a week now, and I understand it, but I have no idea in hell what I'm supposed to be using it for.
The emergence of online social communities, micro-blogging sites and user-generated content has generated a new wave of legal issues.
At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending cycle ever. He adds that Silicon Valley will no longer be in charge of the rebound and emerging regions will drive IT spending and how it's deployed.
At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, panelists discuss benefits that huge companies like Google and Facebook could get from embracing open source, such as third-party developers integrating their products into new application versions and easier connectivity with emerging technologies. Panelists include Ron Yekutiel, CEO of Kaltura; Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource; and moderator Matt Asay, vice president of business development at Alfresco and a member of the CNET Blog Network.
Colonel John Hayes, chief information officer of the US Air Force Reserve command talks about tapping into the technology expertise of its recruits for the development of innovative ideas, like the military's new 'Emergency Notification' system.
ZDNet editor-in-chief Dan Farber and Webware.com's editor Rafe Needleman sit down with AdventNet's CEO Sridhar Vembu to find out about Zoho's office productivity suite and how the CEO plans to compete against Microsoft and Google. Farber and Needleman then analyse the company's business model and determine Zoho's chance for success in the emerging Web 2.0 office software market.
ZDNet Australia held the inaugural Emerging Technology Innovation Awards last night in conjunction with CeBIT.
The Pro805 frustrates as much as it innovates with a touchscreen interface and an interesting, iPhone-style app store.
Lexmark's S605 carries a premium price, but the clever touchscreen features do justify it.
The T50 is a reasonably priced single-function printer that produces good photos and can handle CDs too, but the ongoing consumable costs and text quality let this inkjet down.
A fascinating development in the rather ragged history of Windows Home Server, HP's StorageWorks X500 Data Vault range has been pointed at the small to medium business.
Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.
Ben Forta: All about Adobe
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