The scheduled technical deployment in late January of the nation's new income tax IT system is the biggest release in the Australian Tax Office's (ATO) history, according to its second commissioner.
HSBC is aiming to rollout one-time token security measures across the globe to support its anti-fraud solutions and overall security policy.
Juniper Networks has opened up its Junos operating system to third-party developers as part of a swathe of new announcements.
The legal stoush between the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft and Internet service provider, iiNet, resumes on Monday, but the judge's decision is unlikely to come until next year. iiNet chief executive officer, Michael Malone, is expected to take the stand to kick off the ISP's case, after AFACT finished presenting its witnesses to the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney two weeks ago.
The Obama administration's interest in the National Broadband Network ([[xref:http://www.computerworld.com.au/tag/NBN|NBN|Computerworld :: NBN]]) continues, with the US president's key telecommunications advisor meeting an Australian analyst earlier this month to discuss the $43 billion plan.
In a rowdy sitting of the Senate communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy and his shadow, Senator Nick Minchin, have traded barbs over the erroneous tabling of an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) document containing a confidential valuation of Telstra's core network.
The $25 billion difference in valuations of Tesltra's core network between the telco and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is not news to the industry, according to an IDC telecommunications analyst.
The ICT job market's horror run won't dissipate for another six months despite early signs of a recovery, according to the most recent Clarius Skills Index.
A performance audit of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) Change Program will be tabled in Parliament by the end of this week.
I'm in a bind. I can't work out whether Senator Nick Minchin is plain mad, or there is method to his madness. I'm leaning to the former, though, because of the shadow communication minister's actions since the Federal Government announced its plans to force the structural separation of Telstra. Put simply, they have been nothing more than reckless political opportunism.
Complaints from consumers and small businesses about phone and Internet providers rose 54 per cent in 2008-2009 over the previous 12 months, according to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO). In the TIO’s annual report, the Ombudsman, Deirdre O’Donnell, called for the industry to pick up its game as the level of complaints around customer service were still "unacceptably high".
Adult students are more likely to think YouTube and Flickr are good for educational purposes than high school and primary students, according to research conducted as part of the Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution.
Up to $150 million garnered from wireless LAN patent settlements will be invested by the Commonwealth Science Information and Research Organisation (CSIRO) as part of a new Science and Industry Endowment Fund.
Victorian electricity distributor, SP AusNet, will partner with 12 companies and utilise WiMAX technology to rollout 680,000 smart meters in the state over the next three years.
The National Health and Medical Research Council's (NHMRC) IT systems do not adequately support its core focus of granting millions of dollars in research funds, according to the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).