ACA locks up broadband spectrum
The Australian Communications Authority has imposed further restrictions on the use of wireless broadband spectrum, with assignments for the 3575 through to 3710MHz spectrum band "embargoed" until further notice.
The Australian Communications Authority has imposed further restrictions on the use of wireless broadband spectrum, with assignments for the 3575 through to 3710MHz spectrum band "embargoed" until further notice.
There are many good reasons why vendors shouldn't bypass the CIO, and making them angry is one of them.
Applications and ERP managers who are sick of changing brand names in the wake of acquisitions can breathe a sigh of relief, with Oracle coming good on its promise not to kill off the JD Edwards (JDE) brand name.
Australian IT managers fed up with purging their networks of spyware are being encouraged to front up and tell officers of the federal Department of IT, Communications and the Arts (DCITA) how bad the situation really is.
Unemployment amongst IT professionals in the research and development and education sectors has nearly tripled in the last two years, taking the gloss off a wider IT jobs recovery.
Applications and ERP juggernaut SAP is considering substantial licensing changes and appears set to start experimenting with blended licensing models based on a combination of user headcount and transactional volume across a range of industry sectors.
Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail of controlling copyright through the motherboard has moved a step closer with Intel now embedding digital rights management within in its latest dual-core processor Pentium D and accompanying 945 chipset.
Overseas vendors seeking to influence government IT and communications policy have been publicly frozen out of the policy-making loop, with IT and Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan opting for a blend of research and business brains in the selection of her ICT Advisory Board.
Unstable data compression compounded by a lack of high-definition television (HDTV) digital broadcast spectrum has forced Australia's national broadcaster to choke the quality of its digital signal to free-to-air digital television viewers.
Ask an enterprise CIO what the single biggest IT challenge facing their enterprise is and the answers may be SOA integration or dealing with vendor consolidation.
Australian IT managers looking to crack the whip on vendors hoping to reshape enterprises in their own image may care to take a lesson in diplomacy from across the ditch.
The biggest review to date of Australia's privacy laws has recommended the federal government consider legislating over the top of the states, and finds the current legal situation to be inconsistent, fails in its objectives and negatively impacts on business efficiency.
Australia's government science organization, the CSIRO has vowed it will defend its international property rights to the hilt following a major legal attack over a patent from multinational wireless networking players Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Apple and Netgear.
Australia's elected representatives have shown just how ugly IT cost-cutting exercises can become if users are not consulted. An opt-in option has produced an uneasy truce over attempts to force-march senators onto electronic documents and away from paper.
Service oriented architecture is now almost ubiquitously embedded in analytics platforms. Julian Bajkowski takes a look at where the next business intelligence battles may be fought.