Anyone fed up with short battery life for their mobile computing needs should spare a thought for the humble Aussie digger who may soon be issued with a house brick of a 1kg battery to power their electronic battlefield system needs.
After almost a year in contractual limbo land, details are finally starting to emerge as to the full scope of Insurance Australia Group's $323 million insourced IT future, with a few rays of sunshine poking through for embattled outsourcer IBM.
Department of Defence CIO Patrick Hannan will trade his fatigues for a Demons jersey after scoring the plum job of Victoria's first ever CIO after a rigorous executive search.
Federal Privacy Commissioner Malcom Crompton has attacked the tactics of the music antipiracy lobby, saying that those who ride roughshod over privacy in the hunt for pirates occupy the same moral ground as those they seek to have jailed.
In a trend that will bring little joy to large outsourcers, the federal government is gradually in-sourcing many of its helpdesk services after enduring years of slow response times, a frustratingly limited understanding of its business needs and questionable value for money.
The rash of recent consolidation among enterprise business intelligence suite vendors has occurred at the temporary expense of their ability to perform, according to analyst firm Gartner’s assessment of the BI landscape.
Australia's inability to value-add to the information technology it re-exports into the Asia-Pacific region will cause an already bad ICT trade deficit (imports versus exports) to blow out to previously unseen levels, according to research commissioned by the Australian Computer Society.
Drama surrounding the Australian Customs Service's Integrated Cargo System offers valuable lessons for those at the coalface of managing outsourcers.
Governments, after years of fruitless hysteria, are shifting their national security focus away from the threat of cyber attacks launched by terrorist groups to enhancing eavesdropping capabilities to monitor such groups, according to Gartner’s research director for information security and risk, Rich Mogull.
Microsoft is promising to clean up its act in the public sector saying it will attempt to deliver better code, service and solutions in the future to maintain the conveyer belt of Australian taxpayers' cash to Redmond. But the company is not quite sure how much money it makes from taxpayer-funded deployments.
The worldwide IT economy will rebound strongly by 2006, according to Gartner CEO Michael Fleischer who claimed that most enterprises will soon change their strategic focus from cutting costs and protecting profits to aggressively driving growth.
After several months of leisurely hijacking servers at a Floridian ISP to launch attacks on unwitting Australian bank customers, crooks engaged in so-called 'phishing' expeditions have shifted the launch pad of their spam attacks from the US back to Russia.
The groundswell of vendor support for Linux in the enterprise continued this week, with Novell's latest moves.
PeopleSoft has moved swiftly to placate JD Edwards' green screen community and medium-size ERP users by increasing development support from four to six years and will continue to honour JDE's promise to users of unlimited technical support.
Labor has conceded the high ground to the government and will not block the passage of the Spam Bill in the Senate, Shadow Communications Minister Kate Lundy has revealed to Computerworld. Labor had proposed a series of amendments relating to search and seizure powers to be granted to the Australian Communications Authority.