Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Home IT This takes helicopter parenting to new heights: a quadcopter drone to ensure Paul Wallich’s son gets to the bus stop safely, saving time and effort while a digital eye keeps a view from the sky! …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic Just because Microsoft has introduced its new Windows 8 operating system doesn’t mean you’re forced to buy it, with plenty of Windows 7 machines still available to buy at retail or online, alongside Macs and PCs with Linux. …
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Training The number of Australian IT professionals signing up for postgraduate IT courses has plunged over just one decade from 9,027 in 2001 to just 3,981. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Networking AAPT has launched what it says is its fastest Mid-Band Ethernet (MBE) service to date, with an Ethernet-over-copper service delivering up to 80Mbps. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: People Global printer and multi-function device manufacturer, OKI Data, has appointed a new Marketing Manager for its Australian and New Zealand business based in Sydney. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market The Foundation for Young Australians has successfully integrated IBM’s SPSS analytics platform into its research capabilities, which IBM says has resulted in significant boosts to the organisation’s reputation as a national leader in its field. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Networking Australian technology infrastructure provider Service Stream has announced a two-year contract with Telstra for the remediation of Telstra ”pit and pipe” infrastructure for the roll-out of the NBN. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Energy IT enabled technologies have the potential to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 16.5%, saving up to $1.9 trillion annually in carbon emissions. The potential reduction in harmful gases is even larger than what was thought a few years ago. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Security US Identity management (IDM) vendor has used Gartner’s Identity and Access Management Summit in Las Vegas to announce a new cloud-based offering that lets extends IDM to the cloud. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Mobility UK-based Globalgig has launched an international data roaming service – available initially only in the UK, US and Australia – for which users pay rates comparable to domestic data. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Home IT Apple’s new Fusion-upgradeable and 5mm edge-thin iMacs have landed in Australia in their 21.5-inch configurations, with the 27-inch model still due sometime later this month, with a totally new design and faster parts to tempt iMac owners into a …
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space NASA is reassuring the public — especially young children who are worried about Mayan doomsday predictions that the world will end on December 21, 2012 — that these claims are just “manufactured fantasy” and have no basis in scientific fact. …
Featured | Written by: David Swan | Published in: Mobility eBay Australia’s second annual Mobile Shopping Study has declared fashion and electronics as the two leading categories for mobile shopping, with each a billion dollar sector in Australia. …
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Entertainment IPTV… the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the iPad app Foxtel Go. Its continuing mission: to stream strange yet cool new shows, to seek out new lifestyle channels and new civilization reality shows, to boldly Foxtel Go one day to …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Deals Australia’s largest paint specialist group of stores, Inspirations Paint, has selected Melbourne-based Pronto Software to provide enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) services to 100 of its retail stores across Australia. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Technology In the next twelve months many organisations will make the wrong choices about social media because of “CIO inertia” and in misconceptions about social media and consumerisation. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Visa has launched a new consumer authentication service using real-time, risk-based transaction analysis which it says will help cards issuers reduce the risk of eCommerce fraud. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Mobility People with celebral palsy were asked for ideas, as part of World Cerebral Palsy Day, for things that could make their lives easier and better, with a solar powered wheelchair one of the top 3 ideas from hundreds submitted shortlisted …
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Networking NAB, which is the subject of 5,000 social media comments each month, has set up a dedicated unit in its Docklands headquarters to monitor and manage social network interactions with customers. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Information intelligence solutions provider, BAE Systems Detica, is consolidating its Asia Pacific operations, incorporating past acquisitions into one organisations to do business in Australia and the APAC region. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Strategy Digital transformations facing large corporations are beyond typical planning cycles and most CEO tenures. This makes good timing absolutely critical when it comes to allocating resources effectively. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: People Optus has made two key management changes which the company says will strengthen the SingTel Group’s global digital business and take advantage of changes in the consumer info-communications and multimedia landscapes. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Listed Tech Struggling online video outfit Quickflix still cannot find an external investor to inject the cash it needs to stay afloat until its revenue projections make it cashflow positive. It has had to fire one third of its staff to cut costs. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market A new report from the CMO Council’s State of Marketing suggests that marketers in the Asia Pacific region, including Australia, should have more money at their disposal for campaigns next year. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market There’s been a shift by Australian consumers to company-provided mobile apps to deal with customer care issues or to perform routine enquiries like checking a bank account balance or confirming a flight schedule, and the trend is likely to give companies that …
After a month on the market, Windows 8’s usage uptake resembles 2007’s Vista — ultimately a poor performer for Microsoft — rather than the eventually successful Windows 7, Net Applications said Saturday. …