Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) announced today that it had selected a CIO to replace Peter Dalton who left that position last year.
Contrary to an earlier ZDNet.com.au report, the National Broadband Network Company did not pay to retrieve the nbnco.com.au web address from the consultancy led by Chris Worrad.
Bankwest CIO Tony Clasquin has resigned his job and will leave the bank by the end of the year.
The company responsible for rolling out Sydney's troubled Tcard system is $74 million in debt, a NSW parliamentary budget estimates committee has been told.
Since Tuesday, Gartner has been holding its annual ITXPO, or Symposium, at Sydney's Darling Harbour.
Have you ever heard a weird kind of hissing, crackling or popping noise when calling someone on an IP telephony line? How rare is the phenomenon these days?
Telstra and TransACT will shortly begin offering 100Mbps broadband to many customers. By moving early, the companies have not only raised the bar for Australias broadband services, but thrown down a challenge to a government that now faces increased pressure to deliver the NBN as promised.
The government needs to stop looking at IT as a necessary evil or the place to remove costs when the Treasurer comes calling.
Do you ever get the urge to be naughty, especially if you are never found out? Do you ever fancy committing a crime and not have to worry about having your name splashed all over the papers?
In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.
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?
What exactly was going on here between Carr and ANU research professor Brian Schmidt at the launch of the ANU's new supercomputer yesterday? A new martial arts move? Explanation of a star going supernova?
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?
When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.
Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
Diana Mounter's second place-getting presentation is on how to build cool applications for local government (and she's not even a developer).
At Apple's official launch of the iPhone software development kit, Chuck Dietrich, Salesforce.com vice president of mobile, demos new business software on the device. The tools let sales representatives manage applications such as analytics and business intelligence tools on the go. The Apple event took place at company headquarters in California.
The infrastructure and tools required to make Linux a green operating system are now in place, according to Linus Torvalds, who was in Melbourne attending Linux.conf.au -- Australia's largest Linux conference.
SpywareBlaster doesn't scan for and clean spyware; it prevents it from being installed in the first place.
The datacentre is the first and most obvious place the IT industry has looked at in addressing its overzealous consumption of power. But is the phrase "green datacentre" an oxymoron? Munir Kotadia attended a seminar in Canberra to try and find out.
If you're looking for an inexpensive phone with a nice, simple interface and a decent number of features, you won't be disappointed with the Samsung S6700T.
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.
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.
Thecus' N5500 is, like all of Thecus' lines, best suited to the professional user who doesn't mind tweaking the unit to get the most out of it.
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