The Australian National University (ANU) has been awarded a $390,000 research grant for its Southern Sky Survey of stars and galaxies in the southern hemisphere, scheduled to start in the next couple of months.
Optus has lost its director of government and corporate affairs, Maha Krishnapillai, following his resignation from the position for personal reasons.
The Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet) has jumped onboard a collaborative broadband project to develop enabling technology for the elderly to exercise at home over the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Australian retailer Woolworths has flagged plans to revamp its online presence following a 63 per cent growth in online sales for the 2011 financial year.
A tertiary nursing education and years of clinical experience combined with a Masters in Business Technology helped prepare Ann Larkins for the CIO role at Barwon Health.
Telstra has proposed changes to its structural separation undertaking (SSU), which the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Independent Telecommunications Adjudicator (ITA) would share equal resolution powers to alleviate concerns that the latter would favour the telco.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is on the hunt for a new CIO to replace Jenine Borowik who exited the role in August this year.
After first joining the Commonwealth Bank back in April 2006 as CIO, Michael Harte, has made significant changes to the technology behind the bank, implementing a customer-focused IT strategy and embarking on a core banking modernisation project.
Business analytics will render the traditional format of market research almost obsolete in the future as companies use the technology to track market sentiment.
IBM has released new predictive analytics software for the management of patient data in the healthcare industry, following the company's Watson supercomputer partnership with American health insurance company WellPoint.
CIOs faced with the encroaching issue of ‘big data’ should look to investing in real-time platforms in order to remain competitive in the future, according to IBM chief scientist, Jeff Jonas.
IBM run company, Netezza has launched an out-of-the-box networking analytics appliance for telcos struggling to deal with ‘big data’.
IBM Corporation has launched a number of new software platforms in an attempt to address the multitude of issues companies have had managing 'big data'
This year's conference, held at Mandalay Bay Resort, will focus on information management, business analytics and enterprise content management.
Off the back of an 18-month IT transformation phase, Australian company REA Group sought to craft a new Cloud strategy to enable global consistency, increase productivity from its developers and deliver new capabilities often.