More than 170 executives from Australia's significant cultural institutions will be meeting with advocates of new media and wiki projects in a world-first event this week in Canberra to discuss ways that they can more effectively work together.
A fleet of Australian defence aircraft will be receive significant technology upgrades, in a $31 million deal.
The managing director of two upscale hotels in Perth attributes his ability to grow revenue in a downturn to technology.
Now that the first towns to be connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN) have been announced, it is time for the government and the ICT industry to work on promoting the rollout, according to two Tasmanian ICT lobby groups.
The Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) last month appointed a new IT services provider in a bid to green up its IT. Although it is the first Australian Government IT services tender specifying a green focus, this will be a growing trend according to Datacom Director Mark McWilliams.
The founder of a wiki site that attracted the force of Apple’s legal team hopes that his stand against Apple will create a precedent that will encourage online freedom in the future.
While it may not stop another financial crisis, home-grown technology could be on its way to help over 350 institutions globally including banks and hedge funds significantly reduce risk.
While Windows 7 is stealing most of the limelight, the release will be timed with the upgraded Windows server release, aspects of which Microsoft says are particularly well suited to the Australian geography.
Following a long period of testing and discussion about Windows 7, IT services outfit Dimension Data is now preparing to roll the new operating system out to more than 2000 staff and customers by year's end.
The finished version of Windows 7 will land in the hands of IT professionals and partners on August 6 worldwide and Microsoft Australia Windows Commercial Group Lead, Sarah Vaughan is confident that the enthusiasm to upgrade will not be hampered by current economic conditions.
The minutes from the latest Reserve Bank board meeting paint an overall positive picture for the economy. There are further signs of stabilisation in the world economy. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) outcome for the March quarter had been surprisingly strong and even though business sector investment had fallen by six per cent in the March quarter, this was still a stronger performance than in many other countries, according to the minutes.
We are told repeatedly that the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) will be the single largest nation-building infrastructure project in Australia's history and support thousands of jobs, but its management team is yet to be determined.
Research organisation National ICT Australia (NICTA) has stepped up its support for open source software by launching the OpenNICTA portal where people can view and download software developed and licensed by the organisation.
Wikis could take a trick or two from Facebook and social networking sites in order to draw more contributors in the new year, says co-founder of Wikia, Angela Beesley, one of the keynote speakers at the upcoming linux.conf.au. She shares her thoughts on wikia, wikis and wikipedia as well as their place in the enterprise with Computerworld.
Internet activist, author and system administrator at Google, Tom Limoncelli, would like to see geeks getting more involved in social justice, organisations thinking more creatively about IT, and systems administrators embracing their soft skills.