Forty per cent of SAP's Australian and New Zealand customer base has already chosen to migrate to the company's new platform, Business Suite 7, since it was made available earlier this year.
NSW Minister for Education, Verity Firth, today said that the government had signed on Telstra to bring fast broadband to over 1.2 million students.
Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser has defended the $450,000 National Broadband Network Company annual pay package for Premier Anna Bligh's outgoing chief of staff, saying he is a very talented man.
The Victorian Government today released a tender to meet its whole-of-government datacentre needs for the next five years.
Since Tuesday, Gartner has been holding its annual ITXPO, or Symposium, at Sydney's Darling Harbour.
The government needs to stop looking at IT as a necessary evil or the place to remove costs when the Treasurer comes calling.
On 1 July this year the new Mobile Premium Services Code was introduced. It sounds like it's had a good impact, but is it enough?
As we know, farmers are such bleaters. They bleat as much as the four-legged woolly things in their paddocks. If it's not the weather, it's the strength of the dollar! Nothing is ever right. Likewise with rural broadband.
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.
Considering how expensive and drawn-out tender processes can be to solve problems that might be very immediate, it's little wonder that the Victorian Police IT department tried to work the tender exemptions system.
Google announced the open-sourcing of its Chrome OS early this morning, and the search giant was very clear in explaining its target market for Chrome OS devices: this is a companion device, not a primary desktop machine. But is a Chrome OS netbook intrinsically better than a lowly iPod?
Cover the windows, stay indoors and bunker down the war on file sharing has reached Australian shores. Copyright owners have a fair claim to their content, but is it fair to saddle ISPs with the responsibility of policing their users? And should copyright enforcers be able to steal our privacy?
How on earth can organisations justify paying their IT executives millions of dollars in bonuses, or in the case of the public sector, handing out salaries of half a million dollars?
If you think your job is stressful, just consider what Tony Clasquin used to do for a living: a pilot who used to work as an air traffic controller (ATC), he learned early on to manage "this very complicated 3D chessboard".
Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
ZDNet.com.au took a tour backstage to see the hardware needed to run a large conference.
A terabyte here, a terabyte there, and pretty soon you're talking about some pretty serious information overload. It doesn't matter how well organised you are, once your collection of data files and other digital stuff gets big enough, you're going to need some help finding things. ZDNet's Ed Bott takes a closer look at the search tools in Windows 7 and shows you how you can use them to make your digital life a little more organised.
Lew Tucker, vice president and chief technology officer of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems, foresees applications that are entirely self-sufficient.
At Cisco Live in San Francisco, Silicon Valley entreprenuer Guy Kawasaki, author of Reality Check, talks about the four qualities of innovation that he believes all successful products need. They are: deep, intelligent, complete, and elegant.
The latest update to the iPhone's operating system adds a host of sorely needed features, including voice recording, stereo Bluetooth, and cut, copy, and paste. And once AT&T gets its act together, you'll get multimedia messaging, as well.
Lenovo's popular IdeaPad S10-2 netbook has been slimmed down and its price reduced, making it a better netbook as long as you can live without ExpressCard.
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.
Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
Wondering which endpoint security suite keeps your clients the most protected? Enex TestLab racks them all up and puts them through their paces.
The Pro805 frustrates as much as it innovates with a touchscreen interface and an interesting, iPhone-style app store.
Microsoft Office 2010 beta
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