The Queensland government has set aside AU$3 million in its budget to replace the fire alarm monitoring service for over 6,500 buildings such as hospitals, schools and shopping centres.
While the relative merits of Next G vs CDMA as a mobile phone network will forever remain in question, no one seems to be arguing that Next G is winning out when it comes to data.
The archives of the Australian Computer Museum Society, which has been collecting the IT industry's dinosaurs since the 1960s, is at risk of going to the dump, as the Society is being pushed out of its home for the second time.
Internode will deploy some AU$3.5 million of broadband infrastructure through rural South Australia in a new project responding to the needs of a regional group of local councils.
The New Zealand Fire Service is embarking on a three- to five-year effort to overhaul the organisation's IT systems as a ministerial review promises far-reaching changes for the organisation.
The UK's National Audit Office has branded an EDS IT system, which will cost the equivalent of AU$2.7 billion, as one of the "worst public administration scandals in modern times".
Two domain titles based on the names of Beaconsfield miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell have been deleted by authorities who claim their registration may have been an effort to cash in on the fame of the recently rescued Tasmanians.
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The company is making research a higher priority -- investing more resources in the group and aggressively developing technology in-house.
A new industry body aimed at students and workers looks set to make waves in Australia.
After years of trying to get people to switch to Macs from Intel-based computers, Apple Computer itself has switched.
They didn't select a rock star CEO this time around, but Hewlett-Packard would like nothing more than for Mark Hurd to turn back the clock to a blander, more predictable time in the company's history.
The chipmaker unveiled on Wednesday a new version of its Centrino chip family for notebooks, a recipe it aims to use to boost the performance of lightweight wireless notebooks - mainly machines that weight about 5 or 6 pounds - making them more useful as everyday computers.
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