Australia's central bank has criticised the nation's four largest commercial banks for shirking on investments in payment systems technology, resulting in a lack of innovation and neglect of systems like EFTPOS.
The Australian IT market has been dubbed "technologically mature" by Ericsson's consumer laboratory (ConsumerLab), following the release of the company's survey on the nations use and expectations from IT and telecommunications in the future.
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The market for customer relationship management applications grew by 10 percent in 2004, spurred by the uptake of on-demand software, according to a report released on Tuesday by AMR Research.
A guy I know runs a tiling business, which as far as I can see involves his drinking lots of coffee, making lots of phone calls, and making sure that around a dozen different tilers do the actual hard work. As long as they're busy, he's making money. If he finds enough new business to keep them all going for two weeks, he can take off for Hawaii -- and still be making money.
As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.
If they're done right, portals can provide financial returns and less tangible benefits. How can you get the best results and how do you measure your success?
One of the great challenges of implementing customer relationship management is getting CRM to work together with your existing systems. What is the best approach for connecting CRM?
Many IT executives are on the fence about Web services. Find out what one expert has to say about making the decision to implement and the associated risk factors that you must factor in to any ROI projection for Web services projects.
Sometimes you just must have the latest technology, and swallow the associated risks of being the first to use it. We talk to Australian companies that couldn't wait.
It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.
Tape, disk, or optical? We set a budget of AU$20,000 and asked three vendors to come up with a storage solution.
Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, researchers and tech executives say.
Instant messaging use is growing in offices and homes around the world, and the big players are being told by a standards board to work together.
Rumour mill about Yahoo's future goes into overdrive
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Dear Telstra: pack up your toys, go home
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