Qld budgets extra $100M for IT&T
Queensland this week set aside about $100 million for IT&T initiatives in its record $16.8 billion state budget for 1999-2000.
Queensland this week set aside about $100 million for IT&T initiatives in its record $16.8 billion state budget for 1999-2000.
IBM's ultra-reliable, mainframe-centric networking system for large enterprises, Systems Network Architecture (SNA), is in demise, according to Cisco Australia's managing director, Terry Walsh.
Technology companies must discard their reluctance to hire inexperienced graduates, says Cisco Systems Australia's new managing director, Terry Walsh.
Queensland yesterday launched a five-year IT&T strategy which will pour fresh funds into research and development, a supercomputer centre and incubator facilities for innovative startups.
Windows 2000 won't have all the bugs stamped out of it when it ships, confesses the man at the centre of the effort to deliver Microsoft's long-overdue new operating system.
Human error rather than software bugs caused multimillion-dollar staff overpayments by the State Rail Authority of NSW.
Data extraction and file handling errors contributed heavily to $5.6 million in overpayments made by State Rail since last February.
The foundation stone for the next killer internet application is here and it is labelled XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
Microsoft delivered that message loud and clear to 1500 developers and IT operations managers when it kicked off its premiere technical education conference, TechEd 99, in Brisbane yesterday.
A disillusioned Queensland hospital group has tossed in the towel after wrestling for two years with Intel's LanDesk Manager.
Leading electronic funds transfer payment provider Cashcard Australia has formed a strategic alliance with Internet payments company QSI.
A bombshell court ruling that New York State gambling bans apply to overseas Web sites could choke online revenues at Australian casinos.
Technology conflicts in Queensland's Connect.Ed network have left some regional communities out in the cold and drawn flack from ISPs.
Telecomms specialists are supporting claims by a US expert that unused cable infrastructure or "dark fibre" controlled by Australia's largest telcos is hindering growth of a competitive market here.
Delays in completing Queensland's strategic plan for communications and information appear to have claimed their first victim among senior civil servants.
Specialists who deal with recovering digital data in accordance with the rules of evidence are caught in a bidding war between law enforcement agencies and private sector consultancies. Known as forensic computing, it is the latest hot spot on the IT jobs scene.