Efficiency and service benefits that information technology can bring when implemented well was acknowledged at the recent 15th Annual Government Technology Productivity Awards in Canberra last week.
For veteran telecomms analyst David Swift the real story about the future of high bandwidth mobile telephony applications is a grim tale.
Intelligent as they are, IT departments ought to work on building their emotional intelligence (EQ).
Like a mozzie in your bedroom on a hot and sticky night, the term 'Web services' is buzzing round our heads right now.
Tempted as we may be to cut them up, credit cards are as an integral part of modern living as is crap TV. This has been so for many years. Each year, trillions of dollars in mostly small transactions circulate worldwide via credit cards.
Just like company directors, IT managers or CIOs who consult to the board can be held personally liable for data security breaches that result in third-party damages.
IBM Australia achieved group revenue of $3.3 billion, a result which matches the company's performance in 2000.
Is wireless mobility pushing its way into the Australian enterprise IT brain space - and I'm not referring to the alleged neuron-frying potential of mobile phone microwave emissions.
Conceding that Microsoft's .Net strategy may be confusing for IT managers and CIOs - and not amenable to 'the 30-second elevator pitch'- Microsoft CIO Rick Devenuti insists that the platform has potential to extend the life of large-scale enterprise applications.
Protecting the privacy of our customers is paramount to Computerworld.
There was a time in the early decades of last century when drivers would pack spare spark plugs in order to be sure their cars would eventually get them from A to B.
Standards seem such a good idea, that we've invented a dozen, or more, for every single niche.
There's not one single deployment of enterprise CRM in Australia - in the true sense.
Troubled wireless solution provider mbrane Asia Pacific has appointed John Melluish of Ferrier Hodgson as administrator for its Australasian operations, and a meeting of creditors will be held Friday in Sydney.
Definitions of scalability range from the academic to the practical. In theory, a highly scalable system will deliver neatly uniform increments of performance as each processing unit is added. That is, growth in a near-linear fashion. The real world doesn't work that way, not even close. In the IT shop it's all about keeping things going, creating a system to deal with spikes in demand and to handle the ever-evolving user workloads. Growing pains yes, but major reconstructive surgery, no.