Litigation, or the threat of it, appears as an increasingly used ploy in vendorland as suppliers strive for the upper hand in dealings with customers. And signs emerge that this ugly trend - the flipside of customers suing vendors - has reached Australian shores.
While corporate governance is not new, especially for CEOs who witnessed some of the biggest, high-profile failures in corporate history in recent years, the problems it brings challenge many IT shops tackling a broad range of corporate governance and compliance issues.
In the race to win the attention of executives on the move Nokia has released its mobile e-mail solution to go head to head with BlackBerry.
The Nokia One Business Server aims to give business the freedom to select a combination of devices, delivery options and deployment methods to meet individual enterprise needs.
CIOs need to position themselves as the leading change agent in their organization taking on the role of chief innovation officer.
Queensland's Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian has launched a new community visitor information system (CVIS), considered to be at the cutting edge of information management in child protection.
The Cerebral Palsy League of Queensland (CPLQ) has streamlined its financial, stock control and customer-facing processes to overcome costly overheads and laborious processes.
The Business Software Association of Australia (BSAA) this week staged a public confessional of piracy putting on parade a company that had been caught in the act of using illegal software.
Linux is no threat to Microsoft and any claims to the contrary are simply a misconception created by sensationalism and media hype, Microsoft Australia's platform strategy manager Paul Roworth said on Wednesday.
Admitting Microsoft has been too complex and feature-driven in the past, the company's local managing director Steve Vamos today pledged a new direction for the software giant that represents significant change for its partners and customers.
More than three million users will be busy over the next 12 months downloading Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), which will be available in Australia on August 25.
Australian-owned paint manufacturer Wattyl Limited opted for a hosted solution to provide data communications across its eight Australian and New Zealand offices.
Rejecting IT manager claims that 64-bit computing is still in the hype phase, both AMD and Intel last week said the technology has arrived with organizations already making the transition from 32-bit processor technology.
Software customization is no longer the exclusive province of the enterprise.
With only 320 employees, Barwon Water provides quality water and sewerage services to a permanent population of 250,000 people across an area of more than 8100 square kilometres, while managing 10 major water storage units, 10 water treatment plants and nine sewerage treatment facilities.
Australian IT managers have thrown 64-bit processor technology in the hype basket claiming it is still too early to consider migrating from 32-bit computing.