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Googles driverless car

What’s on the tech logistics radar for 2016?

May 16, 2016 | Clare Coulson
Driverless cars, drones, tube logistics and bionic enhancements – supply chain logistics has got decidedly sci-fi but underlying it all are two key concepts… read more...
Unleashed platform

Unleashed Software raises $3 million funds break-even

May 12, 2016 | Beverley Head
The $3 million funding round that trans-Tasman business Unleashed Software just raised should take it to break-even point – but “something significant” is just 12-15 months away… read more...
Fuji Xerox print services

The printer company which doesn’t print

May 11, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
How next-gen MPS aligns with and expedites digital transformation… read more...
data breach

Consumers cool over data breaches

May 11, 2016 | Beverley Head
The big bad bogeyman that is mandated data breach notification won’t be that big or bad after all… read more...
Apple and SAP

Bill and Tim’s excellent adventure: HANA goes native on iPhone

May 11, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Apple and SAP announce plans to deliver native apps for iOS on the SAP HANA platform… read more...
smart cities plan

Smart cities sought – drives data demand

May 10, 2016 | Beverley Head
Frazzled commuters, unaffordable housing and the high cost of delivering services are all targets of a rash of smart city initiatives now gathering pace… read more...
home wireless broadband

NBN demand flounders as funds evaporate

May 9, 2016 | Beverley Head
The roll out of the national broadband network is continuing apace – but fewer than half of the households which could connect have yet bothered to do so… read more...
digital banking

Legacy software vendors’ sloth gives fintechs head start

May 5, 2016 | Beverley Head
Legacy financial software vendors – the likes of SAP, Oracle and CSC – have been slapped by Gartner for their sluggish approach to innovation… read more...
dynamics market

Dynamics market heats up as Flintfox appoints Duncan Cox

May 5, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Former Adaptable Solutions supremo tasked with growing ERP consulting division… read more...
tax crackdown

Tech multinationals face tax crackdown

May 4, 2016 | Beverley Head
The 2016-17 budget painted a big red target on multinational technology companies that have shifted profits offshore to avoid paying tax… read more...
Rupert Deans

Augmented reality served on a golden Plattar

May 4, 2016 | Newsdesk
News Corp Australia has made its first ever seed investment and it’s in a technology firm that is bringing augmented reality and customer engagement to life… read more...
Horizon Power smart meters

Horizon Power seeks further BI savings from IoT

May 3, 2016 | Beverley Head
Installing a new business analytics platform that business users could drive themselves paid for itself in a year –  letting Horizon Power reduce headcount and expenses… read more...
mobile bank app

Disruption means giving consumers what they want

May 2, 2016 | Beverley Head
Consumers are a demanding bunch – and it’s forcing established enterprises to disrupt their modus operandi, and on occasion to take a hefty financial stake in the disruptors… read more...
star wars

Data’s force awakens

April 28, 2016 | Beverley Head
Walt Disney’s Australian marketing team had just three and a half minutes of footage to leverage ahead of the Star Wars Force Awakens launch; it plugged the gap with data… read more...
tablet market

Saturation, concentration and old fashioned ennui

April 27, 2016 | Beverley Head
Reports suggest that demand for tablet computers and smartphones has gone off the boil as the mobile market approaches saturation and consumers fail to fall for fads… read more...
cloud services

Cloud services the answer to IoT security

April 27, 2016 | Newsdesk
Half of all IoT implementations will use cloud security services of some description by 2020, but the market is currently immature… read more...
tech savvy

Companies ‘desperate’ for technology leadership

April 27, 2016 | Newsdesk
But tech-savvy millennials need not apply… read more...
Interactive Intelligence and Google

Google runs insight platform on Amazon cloud

April 27, 2016 | Beverley Head
The fact that Google has bought Interactive Intelligence’s customer engagement solution, which runs on Amazon’s cloud, signals the growing IT spending power of business units… read more...
secure banking

Machine learning and AI for more secure banking

April 26, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Turning data into real-time decisions to fight financial fraud… read more...

Australia unveils $230M cyber security strategy

April 22, 2016 | Beverley Head
The Federal Government has unveiled its cyber security strategy which features 33 new initiatives at a cost of $230 million over the next four years… read more...

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