Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson believes that with the days of one-vendor-fits-all type outsourcing now over, long-running rivals will be forced to enter marriages of convenience if they are to get a share of the government dollar.
After years of friction, the federal government is finally seeing eye-to-eye with the states, and has given its support for jamming mobile phones in prisons.
IDC has measured the size of the "digital universe" -- all the digital data stored globally -- and it is 10 percent bigger than first predicted and will be 10 times bigger again by 2011.
Vendors' green initiatives are increasingly swaying buyers' decisions, according to the latest IDC survey.
ACMA has announced that it will be adopting a new regulatory framework to govern VoIP in Australia.
One company claims to have beaten the government's AU$1 billion WiMax network to the punch with the first commercial launch of a wireless broadband network based on the same technology.
Cashed-up PC manufacturer Lenovo has more work to do to reach pole position in Australia and New Zealand despite strong global growth, particularly in developing economies.
As Microsoft is out touting the "wow" of Windows Vista, two US federal departments are among those saying "whoa."
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New sectors will push to the forefront of IT spending during the next four years, according to IDC.
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The federal government faces more fallout from its AU$2.9 billion, five-year Innovation strategy, with industry anaylsts saying it could lead to a wave of well-educated expatriate Australians working overseas.
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