A British health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it had pulled out of the country's National Health Service e-health record program because it had lost confidence in the project following the departure of key supplier Fujitsu.
Vodafone Australia has stacked on customers this quarter, but its average revenue per customer has taken a hit.
Diversified information technology services and products group Data#3 has praised the 48 staff it picked up from ailing rival Commander earlier this year, saying the employees had brought with them a good amount of business.
National Australia Bank this morning said it was in discussions to buy the local arm of Dutch investment bank ABN AMRO, in a move that could enlarge NAB's IT support operation, already one of the largest in Australia.
Sydney Water has spent AU$20 million on a workforce management IT upgrade for its engineers and service crews in the hope it will save several million dollars annually by reducing paperwork and increasing accuracy.
We've all experienced that irritating feeling upon walking into a nearly empty restaurant, only to see little 'reserved' signs on the empty tables, and to be told by the maître d' that no tables are available even as other people enter and are escorted to their tables.
A while back, frustration with my inability to get online outside of the office drove me to invest in a 3G data service from Hutchinson's 3. For $30 per month, I get 2GB of data that's accessible pretty much anywhere I go (I do all my work in metropolitan areas).
Mobile phone companies have seen the green bandwagon go by and are flinging themselves on it faster than you can say "lazy, greenwash-spewing me-too merchants" but in the pantheon of would-be eco-friendly mobile makers, Nokia is coming up with some of the best and worst ideas on the market.
What a week it's been for mobiles.
It's just two months until Microsoft plans to pull the plug on Windows XP — arguably its best operating system to date.
Australian Customs CIO Murray Harrison dislikes SLAs and runs away if a vendor talks to him about innovation. In this interview, he also explains why getting excited about gadgets can be dangerous and talks about how Customs' outsourcing strategy has evolved.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.
Windows XP SP3 provides support for WPA2 and the Peer Name Resolution Protocol used in Windows Vista, among other things. See how our install of the RTM code went.
Australian Department of Defence CIO Greg Farr spoke to ZDNet.com.au about how the organisation's networks are kept secure and why virtualisation and green issues are high on the agenda.
Just when you thought it was safe to upgrade, think again. In a world that was about to get an iPhone 3G, one phone wasn't going to take it lying down. The word on the street is that the old iPhone has heard it's about to be taken out by a faster, flashier model -- and it's not going to sit around moping. iPhone 1.0 is out to get revenge, before it gets ditched for an iPhone 3G. This winter, hell hath no fury like an iPhone scorned.
A slight bump to the specifications for the same price in addition to a much appreciated option to upgrade the graphics means the 24-inch iMac keeps the Editors' Choice it earned last year when the brushed-aluminum-and-glass design was first introduced.
Seventy-five million downloads can't be wrong, right? Phenomenally popular security program AVG Anti-Virus has upgraded to version 8, and editor Seth Rosenblatt takes a First Look at the revamped interface.
ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007 Cesare Tizi says Windows Vista is big, requires lots of CPU horsepower and it will be a long time before companies will be able to justify moving to Microsoft's new operating system.
SAP's aggressive push into the SME space isn't on the back of its traditional market shrinking, according to SAP ANZ managing director Alan Hyde.
The latest bundle of mobile technologies from Intel arrives late and somewhat piecemeal, but delivers a useful set of incremental enhancements.
The ROKR E8 looks to be Motorola's stab at the iPhone killer, with a morphing touchscreen display and media focused features.
Businesses looking to roll out desktops won't be let down by the solid HP DX2710 small form factor PC, but watch out for the short one-year warranty.
BenQ's Joybook R45 is a good laptop at a great price — and will be even better once you get an extra gigabyte of RAM in there.
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.
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