The Queensland Government has gone to market for a smaller than expected raft of technology and services to lay the foundation for a centrally managed government-wide data platform, which it hopes will be ready by 2010.
Sun Microsystems has sold two of its Project Blackbox "datacentre in a shipping container" products in Australia over the last year, the company revealed last week.
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Australia's central bank has criticised the nation's four largest commercial banks for shirking on investments in payment systems technology, resulting in a lack of innovation and neglect of systems like EFTPOS.
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IBM claims its latest modular datacentre design can help cut energy bills by 50 per cent.
Apple wowed the cell phone industry a year ago with the first version of the iPhone. And now its new software development kit and soon-to-be-launched application store featuring third-party applications could change the game yet again.
Microsoft on Tuesday made more technical information available for XAML, a language for designing the user interface of Web and Windows applications.
Microsoft will begin collaborating with the Eclipse Foundation to improve native Windows application development on Java.
Rio Tinto is upping its investment in mining technology by entering into an AU$10.5 million partnership with Curtin University of Technology in Perth.
Microsoft's top executives have promised not to sue open source developers who create non-commercial software based on Microsoft's protocols, but skeptics say it's a ploy to soften its image before the upcoming OOXML vote.
Australia's software piracy rate is dropping, but not as aggressively as some in the industry would like.
Despite companies such as Wal-Mart introducing cross-company supply chain RFID, most enterprises are keeping the track-and-trace tech within the family, according to one RFID vendor.
Despite fear of a US recession, reports from IBM and Intel for 2008 show the technology industry isn't ready to mimic the banking industry's financial woes just yet.
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