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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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A new iPhone app allows photo printing directly to certain Canon inkjets.
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Macquarie Telecom has signalled its intention to aggressively go after its share of what it says is the growing adoption in Australia of hosting services, with a management reshuffle including the creation of new executive positions, at the head of its hosting business which grew by 18 percent in the last financial year to achieve revenues of $95.5 million.
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Since the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution kicked off five years ago, it has been churning out release after release every six months.
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Dell has adopted packaging made from bamboo for its Mini 10 netbooks. Bamboo is said to be a sustainable alternative to traditional packaging materials.
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Virgin Mobile has launched a suite of capped mobile plans under which unused call credit can be rolled over into the following month. If its survey results are to be believed, they should see customers flocking to Virgin Mobile in droves, but the reality is likely to be rather different.
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Microsoft says it will release, under the same open source licence as Apache2, the .NET Micro Framework. There are some riders attached, though.
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In a bid to differentiate itself through improved customer service Macquarie Telecom will bring its contact centre operations in-house by April 2010.
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Google's experimental Image Swirl puts a new spin on finding similar images. A visual interface clusters similar images.
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Frost & Sullivan has estimated that the Australian market for unified communication services reached a record value of $608.7 million in 2008, driven by increased demand for cost-saving technologies such as video and collaboration, but has warned that the market is getting tougher for systems integrators as a result of mergers and acquisitions among major players.
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Security experts Sophos Labs reports a widespread Trojan attack being distributed through notifications of deactivated email mailboxes. The malware package is presented as a "mailbox utility."
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Six of the nineteen candidates for the New Oxford American Dictionary's 2009 Word of the Year came from the world of technology. And the winner? "Unfriend."
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US computer security giant McAfee says discussion about cyber warfare and critical infrastructure protection should be taken from behind the closed doors of security, intelligence and defence agencies and moved into the open.
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Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions business has introduced into Australia a set of recently released enterprise wireless products - 802.11n and external long distance point-to-point and point-to-multipoint systems - declaring its intent to be number one or two in a local market its says is worth in excess of $120 million a year.
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