Disruptive to productive technology predictions
06 January, 2011
From disruptive to productive: Unisys Predicts 2011 to be a year of practical application of cutting-edge technologies. With cost-consciousness the ‘new normal’, organisations will tap the cloud, consumerisation of IT, social and smart computing, appliances, and cybersecurity to make their mission-critical systems more productive, secure and efficient.
NSW Government tips in $6 million for innovative ICT initiatives
22 December, 2010
The tourism and retail sectors will be the first to benefit from a new $6 million NSW Government fund to develop innovative new-to-market information communication technology initiatives.
Historic year ahead for telecommunications
21 December, 2010
It's going to be a good year for telecommunication in 2011 with the NBN marching towards fruition predicts IDC.
Partnership delivers technology lab for training
17 December, 2010
The Huawei and RMIT partnership delivers a new $250,000 technology lab which aims to train 2000 students on a range of technologies commencing early in 2011.
World-first smartchip for chronic pain developed in Sydney
14 December, 2010
NSW Treasurer and Minister for State and Regional Development Eric Roozendaal has announced Sydney researchers are preparing for human trials of a world-first smartchip designed to treat chronic pain by implanting it near the spinal cord.
NSW government supports global service centre
13 December, 2010
Dimension Data plans to open a second Global Service Centre (GSC) in Australia. The centre will be based in the Sydney suburb of North Ryde and will be established in partnership with the NSW Government with assistance from Industry and Investment NSW.
Centre for Broadband Innovation open for action
08 December, 2010 by Merri Mack
The Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation (ACBI) was launched this week on the CSIRO campus in Marsfield. The ACBI is a joint initiative between the NSW Government and research organisations CSIRO and National ICT Australia (NICTA). The centre will help NSW capitalise on the National Broadband Network (NBN).
SMS spam schemers incur a further penalty of $2 million
02 December, 2010
$2 million penalty for last respondent in Safedivert SMS scheme brings the total to $24.25.
Private hospital group improves admin systems
01 December, 2010
Healthe Care improves patient administration with database support from Dataweave.
Fuji Xerox DocuShare Connect electronic content management system
25 November, 2010
The DocuShare Connect electronic content management system (cms) is designed for small businesses and offices that produce large volumes of business-critical information. Supplied with one of the ApeosPort multifunction devices (MFDs), it can be operated from both PCs and ApeosPort MFDs.
HP's new approach to R&D
24 November, 2010
Ovum's Principal Analyst Roy Illsley comments on the change of culture at HP when it comes to R&D.
Brennan overhauls IT for Northline
22 November, 2010
National freight company Northline has announced a $5 million, five-year contract with Brennan IT to overhaul its technology systems. Brennan IT is providing Northline with hosted servers, a national private network linking all Northline offices and a unified telecommunications infrastructure that allows for portable personalised numbers and videoconferencing.
NXPowerLite file compression software
19 November, 2010
NXPowerLite software automatically optimises Microsoft Office documents and JPEG files, often achieving more than 65% reduction in file size. Optimised files remain in their original file format, meaning no special actions or software are needed to continue using the optimised file.
Cloud computing, virtualisation and identity federation key issues
17 November, 2010
The Experts Conference survey predicts cloud computing, virtualisation and identity federation will be key issues for 2011.
