Trials carried out on the technology for Victoria's massive smart meter roll-out failed to provide "reasonable assurance" on its viability, according to the Victorian Auditor-General in a report slamming the project.
Both of the two proposed models to simplify the Queensland Government's system for hiring IT contractors could lead to the loss of hundreds of jobs and a number of small business closures, according to a new report by analyst firm Longhaus.
Canberra's shared services organisation InTACT came under fire at the state's budget estimates for not allowing members of the Legislative Assembly to use Mozilla's popular browser Firefox.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) released draft guidelines for IT security last Friday, which laid out practices to improve areas of "potential weakness" in the financial services industry.
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull yesterday slammed the $43 billion National Broadband Network project, saying that if any business person behaved in the way Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had, he'd find himself in hot water with the nation's financial regulator.
Like many, I expected Telstra's dismissal was inevitable, given that it had openly flouted the NBN's guidelines and attempted to bend the process to its own wishes. But who would have expected it so soon?
Google has attracted a lot of attention with a new study that contradicts the accepted wisdom that hard drives are more likely to fail in cool conditions than warm ones. However, I don't think we ought to be switching off the datacentre air conditioners any time soon.
I get the feeling there will be a lot of tired tech buzzwords from fads gone by which will be wheeled out soon with the suffix "2.0" bolted on.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
Your users probably understand the importance of safeguarding the data on their computers. But they don't always realise that some of that data is contained in Outlook. Here are a few suggestions you can share with them to help them protect that Outlook data.
If wireless network problems are leaving you befuddled, these valuable tips can help you make a better connection.
After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.
Java has come full circle, and James Gosling has watched the 12-year journey. Gosling, who helped invent the Java programming language, talks about how Sun Microsystems plans to return Java to its roots and the role of the newly launched JavaFX Script.
The Pro805 frustrates as much as it innovates with a touchscreen interface and an interesting, iPhone-style app store.
There's a lot to like in the first beta of Exchange 2010, from storage improvements to new high availability tools and better integration with the cloud, not to mention Outlook Web Access support for Firefox and Safari. But not everyone will be impressed by the lack of a 32-bit GUI management client.
Google SketchUp is a flexible, powerful app for quick 3D sketching on the fly, but professionals will want the US$500 version.
How does Apple's latest version of Mac OS X, Tiger, look and feel on the desktop?
Apple's 64-bit OS rocks, with built-in features that Microsoft doesn't have, such as integrated desktop search and RSS.
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