Tourist industries in most states have collaborated to create a national tourism accreditation portal which eases the process of tourist businesses becoming certified.
The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a "nightmare" for brand managers, analysts and lawyers have warned.
As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in internet history, a French web official said.
If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.
A recent AU$25 million lifeline to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) last month saved its AU$496 million tech overhaul from tanking, according to DIAC CIO Bob Correll.
Vodafone Australia today took its first steps outside of the mobile world, announcing a new converged communications bundle designed to provide small businesses with their total communications needs.
Three-quarters of the way through a massive consolidation and overhaul of its core business applications, dairy and juice giant National Foods has found that the most difficult parts of the project aren't related to technology, but to processes and the simple challenge of keeping skilled people on track.
The NSW government has launched a new online ICT services accreditation scheme for vendors — a move that could give SMEs a headstart in the lucrative government market.
Intel entered the burgeoning clean-tech sector on Monday by creating SpectraWatt, a spinoff company that will manufacture solar cells, following IBM's latest foray into solar technology
Established in 1996, alphaWorks is a web community for developers to preview and collaborate on emerging technology from IBM's research labs and turn them into commercial products. The IT giant claims much of alphaWorks's activity is aimed at developing new software types and standards -- particularly around open source principles.
The current buzz around virtualisation may sound familiar to anyone with experience of high-end computing's origins — so what makes today's scenario so different?
Voice over IP has reached some major milestones in 2008 — in both the enterprise and consumer ends of the market — but how long can traditional telcos continue to fight against this disruptive technology?
In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
The idea that attacks on computer systems could provide an alternative method of spreading terror and disruption has been a concern for governments since IT systems began to proliferate.
Centrelink, Australia's welfare payment organisation, deals with millions of transactions and billions of dollars every week. CIO John Wadeson recently spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the challenges of running one of the country's largest IT infrastructures.
Developers wanting to use Microsoft's Office Open XML specification will need to brush up on their legal skills.
Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn talks about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centres at Google and how it differs from his new role.
In 2007 leading industry watchers speculated on the trends affecting the market, and while some proved right, others proved otherwise. Discovers how expert predictions fared on Vista, low-cost laptops and outsourcing.
Australian SMBs are hungry for storage, yet have been left underserved by major storage vendors. However, increasing demand for digital marketing and fast access to information is causing vendors to take notice of this once-neglected sector.
Hardy Heron is an incremental set of advances on earlier versions, but all the advances are in the right direction. Unfortunately, a known and unfixed bug means we can't currently recommend it for enterprise use.
Service Pack 1 (SP1) reinstates a lot of the functionality that Microsoft left out in order to get Exchange Server 2007 out of the door last year.
If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
Microsoft's suite of online tools is designed to help small businesses build and maintain a Web presence and manage projects, contacts, and tasks.
In this review, we take a look at BizTalk Server 2006 and how well it fits as an EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and workflow tool for the enterprise.
The new Crystal Vision product line combines technology from Crystal Reports, Crystal Xcelsius and Business Objects' Live Office -- aimed at the mid-market segment in Australia.
The market for collaborative applications has grown significantly with the introduction of Web-based solutions for gathering and sharing information within organisations. In this review, we look at two of the most popular commercial collaborative platforms.
An affordable camera with a great feature set that produces above-average image quality.
Microsoft Office 12.0 pre-Beta 1 drastically revamps the interface layouts of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.0 is a powerful tool and a vital upgrade for Web designers, especially those who create dynamic sites.
While there's not much that's more fun than stirring up Linux and Windows zealots into a frenzy of spite against each other, we thankfully finally seem to be approaching a more measured universe in which technology choices can be made based on suitability rather than preconception.
I was interested to read that Telstra had the good sense to finally hand over its network designs to the Federal government last week.
There's only one thing better than a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager: a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager that also lets you think about Billie Piper or John Barrowman a lot.
Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
A quick scan of almost any ICT department, ICT conference or vendor environment confirms that women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed.
In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?
While we continue to talk about Australia's ICT skills shortage, more than 3,000 potential sponsorships are being blocked by impediments to the 457 visa scheme.
Until this month, we had no uniform-approach ICT curricula in higher education institutions, and no formal link connecting these institutions with industry.
With the Australian Dollar breaking the 92 US cents barrier recently, and predictions it could reach parity with the US Dollar by Christmas, there's good news and bad news for the ICT industry.
Computers have changed the way we learn. The getting of wisdom is no longer a linear process, but a journey where information is forever transforming and where learning is a "trip" from one Web site to another.
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In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
HP & Intel Business Technology Power Center
I'm a celebrity, don't back me up
Lies, damned lies and telco stupidity 
Dear carriers: More walking, less talking
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