WA laptop deal stirs GST debate
A $40 million deal negotiated by the West Australian education department will land 14,000 Acer laptops, shorn of GST, in the homes of WA teachers.
Stories by Pete Young
Mincom chairman steps aside
The resignation of Mincom chairman David Graham is unlikely to mollify dissident shareholders in light of the software company's failure to attract new investors.
Security blanket
The Herculean task of bringing the many-headed monstrous hound Cerberus from guard duty at Hades' gates is akin to managing IT security which now faces threats on so many fronts.
Wireless LANs appeal grows, so do security questions
Worldwide, the biggest uplift in the wireless market is occurring in the wireless LAN sector, according to Symantec CTO and VP Rob Clyde.
ACS and AIIA dispute govt IT spending
Two major infotech interest groups are at loggerheads over how much the Federal Government is buying from Australian-owned technology companies.
HP gets the axe out again
Hewlett Packard is quietly making fresh cuts to its Australian workforce on top of the worldwide reduction of 6,000 jobs announced last August.
Stallion eyes big-budget bandwidth users
One of the great survivors among Australian hardware companies, communications equipment maker Stallion Technologies, is launching itself up the food chain.
Microsoft make enterprise customers pay
Enterprise customers will pay dearly as Microsoft moves toward its long-term goal of software-as-a-service, according to Gartner analyst Alexa Bona.
Win2000 migration goes at a sedate pace
Feedback from Win2000 projects reveal domain consolidation followed by server consolidation and desktop lockdown are the most popular features with customers.
Greed to drive IT sector's bright outlook
The IT sector will be one of the rosiest spots in the Australian economy over the next 12 to 18 months, predicts Access Economics director Chris Richardson.
Vendor shrinkage a Risc to servers
Asia-Pacific region users in the market for enterprise-class Risc servers should brace themselves for a severe case of vendor shrinkage.
Sydney wins Gartner's 2002 conference
It's bye-bye Brisbane, hello Sydney for the biggest IT conference on the Australian calendar.
Gartner Group next year will move its annual symposium and IT expo to Sydney after holding it in
Asia-Pacific IT managers do more with less
Asia-Pacific IT managers do more with less money, less equipment and fewer staff than their counterparts in
the rest of the world, according to market researchers Gartner Group.
Exec slams Australia's 'poor' innovation record
Gartner senior vice president Bob Hayward used the Symposium keynote speech to lambaste Australian companies for their poor track record on innovation.
Playing the e-commerce numbers game
It's a question that every e-commerce wannabe faces: how much can I trust the deluge of predictions on how fast Internet commerce will grow? Shred all the electronic commerce forecasts made so far. Now sprinkle them over the planet and watch them cover it to a depth of one meter. Among the visionary-for-hire brigade producing these forecasts, that figure will be attacked as a vicious exaggeration.