The Federal Government yesterday invited bids for its $100 million smart grid pilot, Smart City, which the government hopes will inform it of the costs and benefits of the technology.
When more than 200,000 student laptops for the Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution go out to NSW schools, they will be running Windows 7 instead of Windows XP as first announced, following a successful trial in three schools.
Welfare agency Centrelink has praised early test versions of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system, saying they show a jump in quality over the much-maligned Windows Vista.
The Victorian Government has announced that Telstra has been chosen to build a national phone-based warning system.
The Australians Customs and Border Protection Service this week said at this stage it had no plans to upgrade its extensive Windows Vista desktop fleet to Microsoft's incoming operating system Windows 7.
IT often promises the government much with the big pull being productivity gains and cost savings, but does the government think about IT in the terms of something that will cure its ills or something which could backfire and give it process diarrhea for a decade?
Do the boards of IT companies deliberate extra carefully before making a deal with government for fear of having their name pulled through the dirt when they stuff up?
A reader suggested a key test to structural separation to compare shareholder return for BT with that of Telstra, providing a presumptive analysis of whether separation was a Good Thing or a Bad Thing. This was a great idea that I had to try.
With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.
Say what you will about Senator Stephen Conroy, but he is clearly not a man afraid of confrontation. Well, he'd better not be, because by killing off the OPEL WiMax project he has just set himself up for a battle with Telstra of Biblical proportions or a big meal of crow washed down with a $4.7 billion gift to SingTel Optus.
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but Australian utilities' recent abandonment of broadband over powerline (BPL) technology has all but sealed the fate of a technology that was once hoped to bring high-speed data to every corner of Australia.
Gershon's recommendations are consistent with those of other jurisdictions that have undertaken similar reviews, and are aimed at giving the ICT centralisation/decentralisation pendulum a shove back towards the centre. This is, however, easier said than done.
Virtualised desktop environments, in some cases using Linux, are gaining in popularity as IT administrators realise they can deliver security advantages. We tell the story of one Australian government department and take you through the landscape.
Australian Customs CIO Murray Harrison dislikes SLAs and runs away if a vendor talks to him about innovation. In this interview, he also explains why getting excited about gadgets can be dangerous and talks about how Customs' outsourcing strategy has evolved.
The Driving Standards Agency has admitted losing over three million learner drivers' details.
After almost a year of testing, the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) admits it could save a 'significant amount' of money by adopting Vista's new management capabilities; but will that recoup the cost of re-training 1.2 million users?
Kaspersky is a strong security suite, but that the extra features available in Internet Security make it worthwhile to pay for, whereas the standard Kaspersky Anti-Virus doesn't offer enough on its own to compare favourably against high-performing, free antivirus programs.
Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.
McAfee Internet Security 2009 does a reasonable job, but it also leaves room for improvement.
If data security is paramount, the DataTraveler BlackBox is the USB flash drive of choice, despite its relatively high cost.
Google Docs is a fantastic free online application that offers some exciting features. However, by virtue of being an online application, users with a slow connection will experience lag, and Docs still doesn't contain enough functionality to be a replacement for today's mainstay office suites in most businesses.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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