It's taken a while, but it's finally here: Google Maps now includes real-time Australian traffic info.
Curtin University has decided to put its 192,000 students and alumni onto Microsoft's hosted Live@edu email system and will be migrating them over this month.
This morning Environment Minister and former rock icon Peter Garrett opened IT services company Accenture's new Sydney office, taking several floors under Google's Australian headquarters in the same building in Sydney's Pyrmont.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer today dismissed Google's Android operating system, saying he believed it was financially unsound.
SMS Management and Techhnology has lost its NSW managing director Linda Chapman for health reasons.
Could the spread of the cloud force Australian ISPs to step away from usage-based models and finally offer real, unlimited broadband packages with no hard limits? Not very likely.
Google has always enjoyed being secretive about its largely custom-built data centres, so I imagine there are a few furrowed brows following the widespread reports about its application for a patent to build offshore datacentres, which could draw their power from the ocean waves.
In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
Commonwealth Bank CIO Michael Harte this week publicly pondered popular Web technologies most IT managers must be looking at and asking "how can these make/save me money?"
Forget Google and Zoho, it will be Microsoft that takes the online word processor to the masses.
Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive.
Use social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook to create a harmonious workplace with our manager's guide to social media.
Could cloud computing be used to deliver a national driver's license registration scheme that was sold to states as a service? Probably not, say four Queensland Government IT chiefs, including state CIO Alan Chapman.
In Washington and Silicon Valley circles, betting has already begun on who will be the nation's first chief technology officer.
With excellent web browsing, email and access to apps, the HTC Hero is one of the few mobiles to truly challenge the iPhone this year.
We're not in love with the design and would have liked some additional features; however, the Google Android platform has the potential to make smartphones more personal and powerful.
Google has rethought the Internet browser some of its basic underpinnings are quite novel but users will recognise some features as they exist in other, open-source browsers on the market today.
The online Google Spreadsheets is free, easy to use, and handy for collaboration, but stick with Excel for complex spreadsheets.
Google SketchUp is a flexible, powerful app for quick 3D sketching on the fly, but professionals will want the US$500 version.
Thunderbird 3 takes flight
Thunderbird 3 is finally here, after a gestation period measured in
years. The latest version of Mozilla's fr… Watch it now
Google Chrome beta for Mac
It's not fully baked yet, but Google Chrome for Mac reaches a major milestone with the release of an official … Watch it now
2009 in review
What were the top five stories that shaped 2009? From the launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 OS, to the departure… Watch it now
Welcome to National Censorship Day
That sinking Tcard feeling
The challenge of government 2.0
Best Servers
Want to find out what the best servers are?
Check out the top rated here!
Optus Deal
Broadband + home phone + PlayStation®3 in a single package price!
Click here for more!
Best Laptops
Check out the best laptops here!
Click here for more.