Attracting Millennials to your workforce
10 November, 2015 by Rob Stummer, Managing Director, IFS Australia & New Zealand | Supplied by: IFS AustraliaMillennials want to use the tools that they trust, with quick and easy access to data, visually appealing, fully customisable interfaces and ways to communicate with colleagues in a social media setting.
Canon Australia buys NZ Post's Converga
10 November, 2015In the biggest acquisition in Canon Oceania history, Canon Australia has bought Converga, the New Zealand Post Group's managed services and business process outsourcing company.
300 homes to test nbn's HFC pilot
09 November, 2015 | Supplied by: nbn co ltdnbn has announced it has started piloting hybrid fibre-coaxial technology with 300 premises in Queensland.
Geek Weekly: Technology Decisions' quirky tech stories for 3 November 2015
03 November, 2015This week: Don't trust your GPS, laptops in orbit, world-leading Aussie quantum research, and are leap seconds for the chop?
Australia Post invests $20m in e-commerce
03 November, 2015 | Supplied by: Australia PostAustralia Post has announced it will invest around $20 million in emerging e-commerce businesses.
Big data expert to present lecture for UTS
02 November, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingOxford academic and big data expert Viktor Mayer-Schönberger will deliver a lecture at the Powerhouse Museum on 5 November about the expected impact of the technology on Australian businesses.
Boosting Aussie entrepreneurship
02 November, 2015A new report focusing on high-impact entrepreneurship in Australia highlights the need for a greater focus on commercialising research.
Is your 'head in the sand' over disaster recovery?
29 October, 2015 by Benjamin Hodge, Technical Services Manager, KEMP Technologies | Supplied by: KEMP TechnologiesToo many organisations are putting off thinking about disaster recovery or using ineffective strategies, when newer approaches can solve the problem while reducing costs.
Reticence to embrace flexible work is costing Australia
29 October, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingAustralian employers' lack of commitment to offering the ability to work from home could be costing the economy billions of dollars in lost productivity, research indicates.
Connectivity driving workplace transformation
28 October, 2015 by Will Bosma, VP Asia Pacific, MuleSoft | Supplied by: MuleSoftGrowing numbers of businesses are adopting the ‘bimodal IT’ approach to managing their IT infrastructures, helping them make the changes required while avoiding potential disruptions.
Australian IT spending to near $80bn in 2016
27 October, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingGartner expects Australian IT spending to grow 2.8% next year, with average IT budgets increasing by 2.9%, as a result of spending on digital business and the connected world.
Geek Weekly: Technology Decisions' quirky tech stories for 27 October 2015
27 October, 2015This week: Are you the next Luke Skywalker?, face recognition denies twin a driver's licence, flying cranes, remote control firefighting and yet another bank IT failure.
Harmonise amorphic data and tame the deluge
26 October, 2015 by Ganesh Moorthy, Apprentice Leader, Mu Sigma | Supplied by: Mu SigmaBusinesses can benefit tremendously by harmonising the myriad structured and unstructured data in their purview by garnering the right ecosystem of people, processes and platforms.
ISPs unhappy at data retention funding split
26 October, 2015ISPs are concerned that government funding to compensate for the costs of implementing the Data Retention Act will be split over three years since they are already incurring costs to comply.
EC fines eight disc drive suppliers over cartel conduct
23 October, 2015 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingThe EC has fined 8 disc drive suppliers a combined $183m for engaging in cartel conduct to influence supply tenders, while Google beefs up disk security requirements for some Android 6.0 devices.