A health informatics professor from Sydney University today said Australia's e-health systems should be strictly open source rather than using proprietary software.
National internet service provider Internode has promoted internal staff Liz Cornelissen to be its first chief operations officer, ending a small string of senior management appointments.
Internet service provider Internode has thrown down almost $500,000 on a multi-site installation of Cisco's TelePresence video-conferencing solution.
The chief executive of Aussie contracting group Service Stream has stepped down, following what he described as a "very disappointing" period for the company financially.
Internode will spend $10 million upgrading its ADSL2+ infrastructure in a move that will primarily benefit Victorian and Tasmanian customers.
As the knee-jerk defensive responses to Rudd's "adios" subside and Australia moves on, has Rudd made Australia that little less appealing to the overseas investors he desperately needs to fund his NBN?
The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.
A socially engineered e-mail, which contains a Trojan file that exploits a zero-day vulnerability and then hides behind a rootkit, might be the perfect attack and impossible to defend against.
My interview with the government's ICT skills and professional development taskforce last week shed new light on what exactly is missing in the industry's skills shortage.
There is no technology skills crisis ... yet, according to a senior government technology official.
Max is Adobe's premier developer conference and this year it featured Star Wars, flying monkeys and electric cars.
Ten years ago they were the young turks of Australia's business community; radical free-thinkers on the path to fame and riches. Shortly after, all those dreams came crashing down. But where are Australia's first dotcom moguls today, and what are they up to?
The release of the iPhone 3G in July 2008 led to the creation of an entire industry where developers worked on their own applications to sell through Apple's App Store. This trend has since been picked up by larger companies. Read about why such a phenomenon is fast becoming a success.
Australia's largest annual security conference, AusCERT, is underway for another year, and continues the tradition of bringing security gurus, vendors and members of government under one roof.
A major enterprise resource planning implementation has sped reporting, added flexibility and supported rapid growth at beer maker J. Boag & Son. But with success came myriad challenges with employees keen to hold onto the old way of doing things -- pen and paper versus the computer. We examine Boag's ERP turnaround.
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Patrick Gelsinger, senior VP of the company's digital enterprise group, speaks about advances the Nehalem processor would bring to power management. And Rajesh Kumar, an Intel fellow, explains
Motorola's new release weighs in at less than a 100 grams.
Nokia releases line with style in mind
video We take a look at a new Bluetooth headset that developers say averages 15 hours of talk time and more than 350 hours of standby time.
video Start-up company Roku shows off its new product line, which includes a unit that serves high-definition digital media.
video As mobile phone services evolve, Sprint PCS shows off a host of new features, including live streaming TV.
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