Deloitte has issued its 2012 technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) predictions and with the company claiming 80 percent accuracy for the 2011 version, we should probably take note of that it is saying.

Forty five percent CEOs of a wide range of businesses have responded to a survey by saying they lack the skills and capabilities to take advantage of the NBN. Three years ago the figure was only 20 percent.

The sense that today is crunch time for Europe has the financial markets on a knife edge; but it could also open the doors for IT skills as expats and Europeans concerned at the situation in the Northern Hemisphere look to the apparently more benign Australian market for jobs in 2012.  

With 1800 exabytes of information tipped to be created and stored in 2011 it’s not surprising most of us feel a little overwhelmed by our online in-trays. In fact 39 per cent of Australian and New Zealand organisations feel that they are already suffering information overload, which is dragging on employee productivity - the situation’s particularly acute in the public sector.

Corporate payments and PCI compliance solutions provider, IP Payments, has been named in the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for the fourth year in a row, recognised as one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Australia and one of the top 500 fastest growing across APAC.

The failure to properly manage and use the growing volume of digital data is costing the economy billions of dollars each year, according to new Australian research.

Listed IT&T services business Anittel has blitzed the opposition to emerge as the clear winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list with a 1022 per cent growth rate. But md Peter Kazacos has warned that start-up companies relying on banks for their finances can’t expect to come within cooee of that sort of growth because of the financial sector’s inherent conservatism.

Technology recruiter, Finite IT has won the prestigious Deloitte Recruitment Excellence Award for best business management for the second year running.

Global transfer agency and wealth management software vendor, Bravura Solutions, has appointed Daryl Wright as its product marketing manager, global wealth management for Australia.

A new iOS app delivers health and medical information from the Victorian Government's Better Health Channel.