New Zealand Communications Minister Steven Joyce has given the country's former monopoly telco Telecom NZ an extension on its deadline for overhauling its IT systems to deal with mandated separation of its operations.
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) is tendering for a partner to integrate its Financial Support System (FSS) upgrade project into its new environment.
Flinders University is rolling out Microsoft Exchange-based mail to its 2000-strong employee roster, while its 16,000 students are moved onto Microsoft's Live@edu. Meanwhile, TAFE SA's 80,000 students and staff will also migrate to the Live@edu service.
The Tasmanian Government has put out a call to the information and communications technology industry for suggestions on how to best use the National Broadband Network and Digital Education Revolution for the students of the state.
SingTel subsidiary, NCS, has landed a new contract with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to provide a new web content management system for ABC Online.
Microsoft's approach to open source seems to be mellowing quite dramatically the software giant has released its .NET Micro Framework under an Apache licence and made a GPLed source code release over the weekend.
In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.
Google announced overnight the release and open-sourcing of a trio of tools designed to help JavaScript developers.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Considering the circumstances the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) Change Program has been operating in over the last few years, it really hasn't been going too badly.
Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.
There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.
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.
For the first time, Kaz chief Mike Foster tells the full story about how the Peter Kazacos' baby was treated within Telstra, and how the deal with Fujitsu went down.
Adobe's attempt to bring its AIR platform to all handheld devices smells strongly of Sun's attempt to dominate the smartphone market with Java. But will the software giant's efforts suffer the same fate?
Public sector IT projects are moving forward but stakeholders have been stumped by the election. John Kost, managing VP for Gartner's government team, says people don't know who will make decisions once their project is implemented.
With millions of customers at AGL paying by credit card, Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007, explains the importance of security and why outsourcing it is a bad idea. Tizi also talks about why Australia should implement stringent data disclosure laws.
Antivirus software manufacturers all claim to protect us against threats, but how well do they actually perform? We put six popular business internet security packages to the test.
SCVMM 2008 R2 is a very competent product, neatly bringing Microsoft's virtualisation management offering in line with the competition at the same time as offering management of disparate platforms in the one product. The integration with the rest of the Systems Center suite makes the overall management and monitoring experience better than its rivals.
The world of enterprise IP telephony is varied and complex. Here's our round-up of the major players and what they can bring to your business.
We compare Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers from Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems and pick a winner.
WordPress is the content management system behind some of the most popular sites on the web. The open-source web publishing platform is beloved for its elegance and extensibility. Check out our comprehensive screenshot gallery to see what you'd be in for if you used it.
Microsoft Office 2010 beta
The beta for Microsoft Office 2010 is here and we've had a chance to check out the latest version. Though the … Watch it now
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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