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.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is urging the tech industry to become greener to save the planet -- and also to boost business.
Australia's critical infrastructure is still under threat due to a shortage of educational resources, according to researchers and security experts.
Telstra has denied reports its network is in danger of bursting in heavy rains, labelling such claims as "alarmist".
Australia's telecommunications companies have moved quickly to ensure thousands of Canberra residents whose property has been damaged or destroyed by bushfires have access to telephony services.
Securing your IT infrastructure, whether you look after five, 5,000 or 50,000 computers, is a complicated process. But my calculations tell me that by 2016, tech security will be as easy as flicking a light switch or turning on a gas cooker.
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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.
Necessity truly was the mother of invention at AGR Upstream Petroleum, a natural resource exploration firm that last year found itself needing a way to co-ordinate a AU$100 million ship refit involving nearly 40 subcontractors in three countries.
Single view of IT assets saves gas company thousands.
Net neutrality has the superficial attraction of 1960's free love, argues Telstra's Justin Milne, until you realise that one party gets all the gratification while the other bears all the costs.
This afternoon Communications Minister Stephen Conroy described his opposite, Senator Nick Minchin, as a Luddite as he took questions from reporters on the Opposition's attempt to block the government's wide-ranging telecommunications industry reform legislation, which includes provisions to force the break-up of Telstra.
Bashing AMD's new HyperTransport technology as limited, Intel is working on its own technology to speed up the I/O interconnect.
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