UPDATE: Exhibitions to merge into mega-event
Australian Exhibition Services and Key3Media, have formed an $8 million joint venture, consolidating the staging of trade spectacles Comdex and NetWorld+Interop, with former AES competitor event IT2001.
Stories by Helen Han
SMEs to turn to brokers for app integration
Integration brokers will flood the application integration market within 10 years, according to research group Gartner.
Govt needs to get its online act together
Most government agency online strategies are in their "infancy", failing to provide competitive, comprehensive and personalised internet services, according to Deloitte Consulting.
Compaq opens its storage strategy to all budgets
Compaq Australia has launched its open SANS strategy with a range of data storage and hardware management products offering scalability, flexibility and embedded protection for e-business.
The human face of IT
Developers must design technology with psychological considerations in mind in order for them to become "socially acceptable", Chris Morris, Gartner Asia-Pacific's vice president and research group director, said yesterday.
To the strong go the VC spoils
Local dot-coms are vying for the attention of venture capitalists but the criteria are strict and only the tough, educated applicants will make the cut, an Internet World 2000 press conference was told last week.
Discount WA telco heads east
Independent Western Australian telecommunications carrier Global Dial will launch its voice over internet protocol (VoIP) telephony services to the eastern seaboard over the next three months.
Virus infections on the rise
Computer virus infections are up by 60 per cent since 1999, and on the rise in Australia, according to a Computer Associates-commissioned study released yesterday.
Analyst gives mixed diagnosis on Asia e-business
E-businesses in the Asia-Pacific will only survive if they overhaul traditional "ego" driven business practices, and adopt more American and "right brain" business philosophies, a senior analyst said yesterday.
Is Linux a net security risk?
A SANS Institute of America report has named Linux and Unix operated sites as more vulnerable to internet attacks than Windows and Mac powered sites.
Nortel Networks envisages a wireless Wollongong
Nortel Networks plans to boost the Illawarra IT economy with a $4 million dollar research and development house at Wollongong University.
Nortel envisages a wireless Wollongong
Nortel Networks plans to boost the Illawarra IT economy with a $4 million dollar research and development house at Wollongong University.
Telstra: Staff cull won't affect bush plans
Telstra's axing of 8000 jobs "will have no effect whatsoever" on the quality of service to country areas, according to a Telstra spokesperson.
Staff cull won't affect bush plans: Telstra
Telstra's axing of 8000 jobs "will have no affect whatsoever" on the quality of service to country areas, according to a Telstra spokesperson.