Australian government CIO Ann Steward has outlined new regulations and procurement strategies aimed at preventing government agencies from making poor investment choices in ICT.
The Department of Defence's CIO Group, headed up by Greg Farr, will represent the Commonwealth of Australia when negotiating a procurement template for all government agencies.
Hot on the heels of the AU$80 million contract with Microsoft earlier this week, the Victorian Government has signed a four-year deal with IBM covering the use of Lotus software on more than 30,000 desktop systems.
Queensland Transport (QT) has gone to market for up to 10,000 handheld smartcard readers as it gears up to replace its 2.7 million antiquated drivers' licences with new smartcard equivalents.
Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with London's "unethical" Oyster-card system.
Hopefully, you've been spending your end-of-year break better than the executives at Optus, who seem to have taken advantage of the annual industry-wide lull to get onetime WiMax aspirant Austar United Telecommunications to the negotiating table.
During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres.
As CSIRO stands firm on its refusal to freely license key patents relating to WLANs, I'm reminded of the joke: what do you get when you grab a man by the testicles? The answer: his full attention.
Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft.
The Internet is forcing software vendors to come up with a variety of new licensing models. Here are strategies to help you, the buyer, get the most bang for your buck.
The Driving Standards Agency has admitted losing over three million learner drivers' details.
Government departments have shed their initial reluctance to use open source technologies, but the problem persists -- how do you determine appropriate usage?
An audit of e-commerce Web sites by the Victorian government has found less than one percent met all the requirements for the Commonwealth 'Best Practice' model.
Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source community.
We examine tools that can drill down through your applications to pinpoint exactly where loading causes trouble.
China's 960 million citizens will be issued with digital smart ID cards, starting from next year.
The perceived viability of 3G networks has taken another blow with UK mobile company mmO2 announcing it had made a pre-tax loss of £10.2bn, and admitting that it paid well over the odds for its third-generation licences.
The spread of convenient wireless LANs has delighted hackers, who find many WLANs vulnerable. Managing and securing a wireless network is therefore vital, but rarely done well. ZDNet Australia compares the offerings from AirDefense and AirMagnet.
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In this exclusive video interview, Optus chief information officer Lawrie Turner speaks to ZDNet.com.au about being the IT head for Australia's number two telco.
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