Companies belching greenhouse gases will have to keep track of their footprint as of today so they can report their levels to the government.
The IT industry should view the buzz around green technology as an opportunity rather than a compliance burden, says industry analyst Bruce McCabe.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is seeking a vendor for a new taxonomy application as part of a simplified business reporting initiative led by the federal Treasury.
Centrelink will standardise its business reports on Cognos 8 after the vendor won a AU$9 million tender for business intelligence and performance management software.
Tasmania's state Technical and Further Education (TAFE) organisation has puchased a corporate reporting platform from business intelligence vendor Cognos.
Google has always enjoyed being secretive about its largely custom-built data centres, so I imagine there are a few furrowed brows following the widespread reports about its application for a patent to build offshore datacentres, which could draw their power from the ocean waves.
If you think two-thirds of your IT is mission-critical, you're either running an incredibly lean and efficient operation or you haven't got a clue how many applications you have and which ones you need to manage.
Internode has no incentive to provide free access to its Wi-Fi networks for any reason at all, apart from genuine love, and maybe the joy of finding a new way to flip Telstra the bird.
Melbourne-based start-up Cinergix appears to be the only Australian act headlining at the massive tech start-up conferences in the United States this week.
The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.
Warning of a potential risk is absolutely a valid use of the status reporting process—even if the risk ultimately does not materialise. See why bad news reporting is not only desirable but also vital.
So you know you need to turn a project around, but how do you proceed once you've assessed the situation? The answer is planning and implementing your recovery plan. Here's your road map.
Sending e-mail using the Access interface allows greater collaboration among your users.
The National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) has recommended the introduction of anti-spamming laws, whilst simultaneously playing down their potential benefits in a report released today.
We try and make some sense of the plethora of reports on the IT job market.
In the news this week, a new Web site lets you brag to the world about who you slept with. We kind of thought that was just
Last week, Apple and Microsoft provided us with the best of both worlds...just not together. Also, LHC or Google: which is scarier?
This week, Buzz takes on pro athletes and PANKs in evaluating the worst of the social network landscape.
Google's Android alliance is falling apart, and Molly thinks she knows why: something about children, mean parents, and monkeys.
This week, Molly has some advice for the Japanese government, and imagines a world in which the Mormons run Facebook.
Apple's OS X remains a safe option when compared to Microsoft Windows XP or its successor, Vista, according to antivirus firm Sophos.
WhatsUp Gold v12 will satisfy existing and new users alike. And it's not just for large enterprises: small and medium-sized businesses can also monitor all their web servers, email servers, SQL servers, file servers and even critical desktops without breaking the bank.
The DNS-343 is the natural evolution of the DNS-323 a four-drive NAS that's quite good indeed.
Norton Internet Security 2009 hits all the right security notes and its superior protection technologies might even win back some jaded anti-Symantec folks, though the lack of adequate technical support may continue to frustrate.
This is a powerful performance monitoring and reporting system for servers running VMware ESX Server. Web-based dashboards show the resources in use by servers and their VMs, while the reporting module delivers printable reports of historical data.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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