update: Aussie Home Loans has lost its second chief information officer in nine months, but Christopher Hatzidis says he's left the mortgage specialist on good terms.
Although more Australian firms are shifting simple business processes to cheaper overseas destinations such as India, firms are being cautious -- and justifiably so, according to analysts.
When UK-based online trading site Betfair was granted a licence to operate in Australia this January, it built a new data centre and flew the entire set-up from the UK to Tasmania on two chartered aeroplanes. In the first three weeks of going live, the company has achieved 100 percent uptime.
Commander Communications will succeed in its takeover bid for Volante, despite a rejected offer yesterday, and could grow to challenge heavyweights in the services space, according to analyst firm Forrester Research.
The latest delay for Windows Vista highlights a mounting challenge for Microsoft -- finding a way to update its most important product on any kind of reasonable schedule.
There are times when the tone of Australia's broadband discussions makes me want to laugh, and others when it just makes me want to cry. The past week has been one of the latter, after two very different broadband-related stories made their way across my desk.
A recent thread of conversation across a couple of 2.0 blogs has been the subject of whether Web 2.0 is suited not only for implementation inside a corporate firewall, but by companies with a view to improving their relations with their customers.
The CIO of San Francisco International Airport talks to ZDNet about protecting the airport's network and providing new services such as passenger WiFi.
Programmers make big bucks, however there are many other reasons why people might want to become a developer. Here are a few things to consider when deciding to become a software developer.
Any manufacturer knows that a product recall can be an absolute nightmare of paperwork and logistics. At NSW agricultural cooperative Batlow Apples, however, an increasingly capable implementation of Microsoft's Navision ERP has provided the confidence that such a recall could be managed relatively easily.
More than 80 percent of respondents in a recent survey are unhappy at work. But IT industry pundits say that has as much to do with the current economic environment as it does with individual workplaces.
Looking to slice operating costs and deliver streamlined ordering processes, Pizza Hut will soon add voice recognition to its Sydney and Brisbane call centres with a system based on VeCommerce's VeBook order fulfilment product.
Ignoring the low-resolution, standard aspect display, the U5F is a fast ultra-portable with great battery life.
Even in big cities it can be a heck of a lot easier to find a Big Mac than it can be to find a wireless hotspot.
New enhancements make Norton GoBack a must-have utility, even if you're already using Windows XP's System Restore.
Sure, it keeps turning out shiny new iBooks. But the big news from Apple lately has been apps like Keynote and iLife. Is Apple turning into a software company?
Why overclock a processor? We examine why you'd want to overclock a CPU and how to do it for the Intel Celeron and P4 processors.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas, such as their PayWave … Watch it now
Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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