Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Australian state police change A-V gear purchases Rather than buy audio-visual equipment locally, the department will negotiate state-wide deals with suppliers in hopes of saving money
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Telepresence saved us millions: Australia After 18 months of use, a high-definition video conferencing system for national, state and territorial governments is deemed worthwhile
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Australian state wants ICT help on digital plan New South Wales wants information and communications industries to comment on impediments to creating a digital economy strategy
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Deal to split Australia's telco OK'd by shareholders Structural separation of Telstra's wholesale and retail networks moves a step closer. But the competion commission still has the final say
Monday, October 17, 2011
Samsung files to stop iPhone 4S sales in Japan, Australia The Korean electronics giant said it has also filed to block sales of the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 in Japan
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Ingram Micro profits hurt by SAP project issues But the problems implementing SAP in Australia are now mostly resolved, at least according to the technology distributor
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
WikiLeaks support rally a success: Pirate Party A thousand people attended the rally in support of WikiLeaks organized by the WikiLeaks Support Coalition
Monday, November 29, 2010
UK government CIO resigns In an email announcing his resignation from the role that he has held for nearly five years, John Suffolk shared some of his successes, saying that he has made “substantial progress”
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Netregistry pulls out of China business CEO of Australian domain registrar says the new business requirements made offering the Chinese domain name extension service 'untenable'. However another Aussie firm is staying put
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Australian parliament Web site attacked The Australian Parliament's Web site was hit by an apparent denial-of-service attack Wednesday, two days after the hacking group Anonymous threatened attacks over the government's plan to filter Web content.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Aussie telcos hit with record complaints More than 102,000 people protested about service last year, and this year even more are expected to complain. Ironically, most of the break downs between providers and their customers involve lack of communications
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Stream computing helps monitor sick infants Life-threatening conditions, like infection, can be detected up to 24 hours in advance in premature infants by observing subtle physiological changes. How IBM and UOIT researchers are helping
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Recording everything in the workplace soon to be in vogue, say researchers Sixty per cent of knowledge workers in the U.S., U.K., and Australia will have effectively stopped deleting documents, e-mails, audio, and video files from their hard drives by 2010, and we will soon see this taken to another level with widespread proactive recording in the workplace, according to Australian research company S2 Intelligence.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Australian privacy law changes could shake business: Lawyer Proposed changes to legislation will shake complacent businesses, says one legal specialist
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Telstra chief talks about telco’s transformation Trujillo admits he's ruffled a few feathers since taking over three years ago
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Industry to fight Australian bid to filter Internet An Australian government plan to set up a national Internet content filtering plan has been denounced as technically impossible by service providers and users. 
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Canadian RFID vendor inks deal in Australia IPICO Inc. of Burlington plans to work with CHEP, a packaging and transportation equipment company, to develop dual-frequency radio-frequency identification technology
Monday, August 27, 2007
Broadband improvement program launched in Australia The controversial Australian Broadband Guarantee program was officially launched in its entirety by National ICT Minister Helen Coonan. The A$162.5 million plan offers incentive payments to Internet Service Providers to supply higher bandwidth services in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia at prices comparable to those available in metropolitan areas.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Microsoft privacy exec says Aussie disclosure laws reactive Microsoft's chief privacy officer, Peter Cullen, said the introduction of data disclosure laws in Australia should not be the centerpiece of an organization's data protection strategy.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Mobile industry rejects recycling time bomb claims Australia's Total Environment Center releases a report that claims moutains of toxic handhelds and cell phones are waiting to be disposed of. So how come the rest of the industry isn't that worried? 
Monday, July 09, 2007
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
New Zealand braces for cyber-terror blitzkrieg A massive cyber-terrorism and hacking attack is on the radar for New Zealand. Kiwi organizations will find their online defences tested for the first time in a huge international cyber-security exercise being coordinated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security next year.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Billions in outsourcing deals up for grabs in 2007 More than A$7 billion worth of outsourcing contracts are up for grabs in Australia this year with many customers opting for the selective sourcing model. 
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Australian Defence says IT problems improving A six-week investigation by Computerworld Australia into IT support levels at the Australian Department of Defence has led to the department's chief information officer (CIO) to admit the problem exists, but is improving, during a recent Australian Senate committee hearing in Canberra. 
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Reader's Digest begins global CRM rollout Reader's Digest (Australia) has developed a solution internally to aid customer relations management, with plans to roll out to Reader's Digest globally as part of a strategy to converge its systems solutions.