Project Phoenix, AGL Energy's four-year revamp of its billing and computer systems, has produced $25 million worth of savings for the gas giant, with 1.6 million customers migrated to the company's new billing platform.
Queensland energy utility Energex has created a new chief information officer position as it aims to strengthen management of its IT resources.
The intense power requirements needed to run and cool datacentres now account for almost a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions from ICT, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Google can brag about having the biggest corporate installation of solar power. But for them, it's just the beginning of their renewable energy plans.
Nuclear Fusion mimics the reactions that occur in the sun to create safe, clean nuclear energy. Sound like hot air? Not according to a leading US venture capitalist who believe it will become economically viable within several years.
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If there's fibre running to the node down my street by the end of 2009, I'll eat my own shoes with mustard sauce.
Welcome to the CIO Vision Series and congratulations to Cesare Tizi, who was awarded the ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year award for 2007. Tizi was recognised for the work he did while successfully leading Australia's largest energy supplier, AGL Energy, through a period of intense change.
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In the year leading up to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's $43 billion National Broadband Network decision, a group of chief executives was quietly working away at winning over important members of federal cabinet to the merits of a digital economy.
When supercomputers get together, things get hot fast. Our photo gallery reveals how modern datacentres are cooled, and gives an insight into Google's secret solution to the problem.
On any list of businesses that can't afford downtime or system failure, power companies have to be close to the top. So when New Zealand electricity and gas generator and retailer Genesis Energy experienced a series of flaws in its backup and recovery systems, it had to act.
The Department for Energy Technology at the Fraunhofer-Institutea, -- cradle of MP3 and MIT opposite number in Germany - has presented a solar solution for powering PDAs without the need to externally recharge the battery. They soon could apear on the mass market.
The chip giant's new mobile processor, due next year, will include a 1MB secondary cache. That's twice as big as the cache found on the Pentium 4.
An optical antenna that uses a geometrically shaped lens promises to bring greater security to wireless networks for businesses, according to British scientists.
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Nanotechnology is constantly finding itself in the headlines. But are microscopic machines an inevitable part of our future, or just another hype-heavy get-rich-quick ruse?
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