Rodney Gedda

Australia needs to increase the funding and expand initiatives to protect critical infrastructure if it is to avoid a cyber war similar to the one that has struck Estonia for the past three weeks, according to a Deakin University professor.

Talk about new desktop operating systems may be at an all-time high, but the government of Australian state Queensland has no intention to progress from the six-year-old Windows XP for more than 100,000 computers to be purchased over the next three years.

Talk about new desktop operating systems may be at an all-time high, but the government of Australian state Queensland has no intention to progress from the six-year-old Windows XP for more than 100,000 computers to be purchased over the next three years.

Southern Africa's burgeoning mobile phone market is paying dividends for a Sydney software company which reduced churn for one of the continent's largest carriers, Vodacom (Pty) Ltd.

Ipswich City Council in Queensland, Australia, will transform its supply chain, customer service, and workforce management operations in a project estimated at A$15 million.

Qlusters vice president of marketing John Harleman said openQRM takes the benefits of virtualization and enables users to apply them to, and between, physical and virtual systems.

Integrating voice, video, and application data may be the utopia of business communications, but vendor marketing about the uptake of the technology should be treated with suspicion, according to a telecommunications analyst.

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.