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Dr Larry Marshall

Tech-savvy boss takes reins at CSIRO

October 13, 2014 | Beverley Head
Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Dr Larry Marshall will relocate to Australia from Silicon Valley to take the reins at CSIRO… read more...
Andy Lark

Xero signs marketing guru Andy Lark

October 9, 2014 | Beverley Head
Cloud accounting specialist Xero has signed Andy Lark as its chief marketing officer – delivering the business with a wealth of insight about both the tech and finance sectors… read more...
Big data

Scarcity of data quality, standards and skills stalls big data

October 9, 2014 | Beverley Head
Poor data quality, lack of standards and access to skills are still being blamed for holding back enterprise progress with regard to big data projects… read more...
IT computer money

Gartner: Digital economy drives IT spending and CIO agenda

October 8, 2014 | Beverley Head
The search for digitally enabled business models is driving global IT spending which will rise by 3.9 percent to more than $US3.9 trillion next year – but CIOs are controlling less and less of it… read more...
Shellshock computer bug

Privacy commissioner Bashes enterprise software

October 8, 2014 | Beverley Head
Australia’s privacy commissioner has weighed into the Shellshock computer vulnerability issue to remind local enterprises that they must keep on top of computer and data security… read more...
Access internet

Australia passes Orwellian web-trawl laws

October 2, 2014 | Beverley Head
As part of a bid to tamp down terrorist activities Australia has passed legislation which will allow sweeping searches of the internet using a single warrant… read more...
voice biometrics

Australian biometrics pin down US offenders

October 1, 2014 | Beverley Head
Locally developed voice biometrics technology, already used by New Zealand’s IRD for taxpayer identification, has been picked up by Shadowtrack for US and Canada house arrest applications… read more...
Big data

Report debunks semblance of big data progress in business

October 1, 2014 | Beverley Head
Big data has captured the imagination of the enterprise – but it can still be tricky to identify how it’s being used, by whom and to what effect. New research however sheds more light on the issue… read more...
Cloud services

BMC launches patent salvo against ServiceNow

September 30, 2014 | Newsdesk
A legal war has been launched by BMC Software against fast growing cloud based rival ServiceNow with BMC claiming seven of its IT systems management patents have been infringed… read more...
kim dotcom

Goodbye InternetMana, hello an ICT policy agenda

September 26, 2014 | Newsdesk
At first glance a political party dedicated to technology should have had the ICT industry jumping for joy, but that was not to be the case as it garnered just 1.26 percent of the vote last Saturday… read more...
Software testing

Cloud environment best for software/UX testing

September 25, 2014 | Beverley Head
Cloud computing has boosted the ability of organisations to test their systems for extreme loads in order to guard against embarrassing and potentially costly crashes… read more...
Call Centre

Careful, they might hear you

September 24, 2014 | Newsdesk
There has been a step change in enterprises’ ability to economically capture, store, tag and index every conversation that their call centre ever has with a customer… read more...
Unleashed Software

Unleashed seeks sales and skills in US/UK

September 23, 2014 | Beverley Head
New Zealand-based Unleashed Software is planning a push into the northern hemisphere as it seeks more sales and skills to fuel its growth strategy… read more...
Australian tax

Appetite piques for streamlined tax reporting

September 22, 2014 | Beverley Head
Australian businesses are starting to tangle more seriously with the notion of standard business reporting, which in the future will allow more streamlined tax and compliance reporting… read more...

Is Alibaba IPO a threat to Amazon, eBay?

September 19, 2014 | Newsdesk
Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba is set to make history with the biggest Nasdaq IPO on record… read more...
Agile workers

The six steps of Agile testing

September 19, 2014 | Beverley Head
Agile development shops need to take a fresh approach to software testing and measure the success of software development according to a team’s ability to deliver what is expected by the business… read more...

Family homes become the latest IoT battleground

September 18, 2014 | Newsdesk
In less than a decade the typical family home in Australia and New Zealand could contain several hundred internet connected devices as the cost of making a device internet-smart drops to around $1… read more...
Reconciliation

ERP systems miss the reconciliation mark

September 17, 2014 | Beverley Head
Many large ERP platforms still don’t have fully functioned reconciliation, leaving many businesses, including Qantas in the past, to use spreadsheets to handle the task… read more...
Best place to work

Atlassian feathers the financial nest

September 16, 2014 | Beverley Head
Sydney-based software company Atlassian chose to release strong financial results that position the company well for any future share market listing during its Silicon Valley user summit this month… read more...

How technology trends are helping Life Sciences

September 15, 2014 | Newsdesk
The experts at UXC Eclipse say there are a number of technologies that are driving the Life Sciences market forward… read more...

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