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by James Riley
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The telecommunications reform proposals before the Senate were a "once-a-lifetime opportunity" to correct a fundamental flaw in the Australian industry and shape the sector for decades to come, Optus chief executive Paul O'Sullivan has told a Canberra audience.
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by Stuart Corner
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HTC has introduced two Android cellphones into the Australian market, the HTC Hero and HTC Tattoo, the first locally to incorporate its recently launched HTC Sense personalisation functionality.
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by Beverley Head
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HP has refreshed its thin client range, adding a $299 entry level model which it considers its “silver bullet” – seemingly unconcerned at the risk of cannibalising its PC sales.
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by Stuart Corner
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Perth-based Prodial has launched into the market for providing IP communications and virtual IP PBX services to medium & large businesses, claiming to be the first and only Australian company to offer wholesale business-grade virtual PBX and IP enabled communications services tailored to existing site infrastructure."
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by James Riley
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The senior Queensland Labor government staffer hired by the NBN Co to run its external relations program – and who is at the centre of a growing 'Labor mates' controversy – is being paid $450,000, according to documents filed with the Senate this afternoon.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Hi! I'm a PC. I'm a Mac. And I'm a stolen iPhone from Belgium!
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by James Riley
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Despite being dropped from the Australian Tax Office shortlist to provide outsourced end-user services, HP Enterprise Services and Kaz are likely to still enjoy a prosperous post-Gershon period within the federal government, according to consultants Ovum.
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by Stuart Corner
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Optus has stolen a march on Telstra - the long time Australian leader in cellular telephony - with the announcement of plans for the first carrier trials of the next iteration of cellular technology in Australia, Long Term Evolution (LTE) which promises greatly increased broadband data bandwidths (with additional spectrum).
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by Beverley Head
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Australia’s early forays into Government 2.0 have received a cautious thumbs-up from Gartner analyst Andrea di Maio who has been presenting on the bright and dark side of Government 2.0 at this week’s Gartner symposium in Sydney.
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by Peter Dinham
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Human error is responsible for an increase in enterprise data ‘disasters’, a trend which data recovery vendor, Kroll Ontrack, attributes to more complex storage systems coupled with depleted resources to replace equipment, train IT staff and maintain optimal staffing levels.
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by Peter Dinham
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ECM vendor, Open Text has appointed a manager for business development and account management to cover the southern region of Australia from Melbourne.
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by Peter Dinham
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The UK’s biggest airline, British Airways (BA) is to upgrade its entire IT system as part of its worldwide travel program by integrating over 600 electronic systems and processes using a portfolio of SOA solutions from Progress Software.
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by Stuart Corner
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'Context-Aware Computing' is a term you probably haven't heard of, but if Gartner is correct, that is about to change. Context-Aware Computing is a Gartner-invented name for a market it expects will be worth $US12 billion in just two years.
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by Peter Dinham
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Australian companies and organisations are seemingly lagging behind their US counterparts in the use of social media for engagement with customers and employees, with many Aussie organisations ‘looking and learning’, and others still not paying attention at all to the new medium.
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