Listed enterprise technology vendor Technology One has announced its results for the half year ending March 31, 2009.
Total revenue for the half increased 13 per cent, or $6.4 million, to $55.9 million, while total license fees were up 10 per cent, or $1.2 million, to $13.3 million.
The National Health and Medical Research Council has awarded a three-year outsourcing contract to IT services company Logica.
Minister for Innovation, Kim Carr, today launched a $108 million Advanced Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (CRC).
Researchers at a Melbourne University have come up with a “five dimensional” disc capable of storing 2000 times more data than a conventional DVD.
The Internet service provider industry is a rats and mice business that needs greater regulation and oversight said Alastair MacGibbon, former director of trust and safety at eBay, and prior to that, the former director of the High Tech Crime Centre.
The greatest threats to the Internet are not cyber threats, but the threat of inappropriate public policy, says ICANN president and chief executive, Paul Twomey.
Senator Stephen Conroy has used his keynote speech at the 2009 AusCert conference, held this week on the Gold Coast, to call for a renewed emphasis on cyber security.
Domain name cloning of social networking sites has become the latest security threat to computer users both at home and in business.
Scotland is emerging as an unlikely games development hub, with companies as diverse as Real Time Worlds, responsible for developing the platform-busting Grand Theft Auto, and Digital Goldfish, developers of the popular iPhone game Bloons, setting up shop.
A war of words has broken out between Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and his opposite number, Nick Minchin, leader of the opposition in the Senate over the viability of the National Broadband Network.
Smart energy grids are fashionable. The US has allocated $4.5 billion to its smart energy grid programs, while closer to home, this week’s federal budget saw the government allocate $100 million to the development of smart grids.
Transport infrastructure group Asciano has standardised its financial and human resources management systems on Oracle grid computing infrastructure.
More than half of the 1,425 small and medium sized businesses surveyed by security company Symantec had suffered from security breaches in the last twelve months.
Australia’s peak technology organisations have expressed optimism that Tuesday’s federal budget will be kind to the information technology sector. But this is tempered by knowledge that the NBN will dominate ICT expenditure over the next few years.
The federal government has established an Information Technology Industry Innovation Council to support Australia’s $98 billion IT industry. The Council will be chaired by Data#3 managing director, John Grant.