Chief digital officers may be all the rage among transforming enterprises – but they could find themselves with a very short corporate shelf life according to new research… read more...

For the Australian VMware users already signed up to attend vForum in Sydney next week, there will be just one topic of conversation – what will the Dell takeover of EMC mean?… read more...

The impact of a higher $US are taking their toll on hardware sales – and the future’s also looking shakier than usual given semiconductor forecasts… read more...

The 2015 World Payments Report has demonstrated Australians’ continued enthusiasm for non-cash transactions with the country ranking fourth in the world… read more...

Australia will hold its first “policy hackathon” in Sydney this Saturday – presumably to come up with at least some minimal viable innovation policies for the new Turnbull Government… read more...

Startups have until the end of the month to apply for one of up to ten seed capital investments worth up to $60,000 from the Telstra-backed muru-D incubator… read more...

The Internet of Things is eating IT budgets, with Gartner forecasting that next year CIOs will spend $US2.5 million a minute on IoT deployments… read more...

US giant CSC has given itself just five weeks to complete the due diligence on Australia’s largest listed software and services business, UXC Ltd, ahead of a planned $A428 million takeover… read more...

Listed software company Technology One announces third merger for 2015 with $10 million deal to buy asset management specialist… read more...

Canberra based start-up Buttonwood is putting the finishing touches to its cloud exchange platform designed to bring greater flexibility to hybrid cloud solutions… read more...

A survey of 255 A/NZ chief marketing officers has found that 91 percent are making technology purchasing decisions, while more than half of all marketing departments have a dedicated IT budget… read more...

Just three months after getting the green light to purchase Amcom, Vocus is itself now the subject of a merger agreement with M2, as ANZ telecommunications consolidations gathers pace… read more...

Within hours of announcing it had achieved the 50,000 customer mark Sydney software company Atlassian was dominating the news for a very different reason – its looming US float… read more...

Australian CIOs are engaged in a balancing act – attempting to deliver the digital agenda that boards and investors crave, while keeping tight rein on costs… read more...

Teams at Amazon which want to innovate must start by writing a press release before developing anything… read more...

The lure of cloud computing for CMOs is well understood and has seen more of the IT budget head to that department – now it’s the CFO’s turn… read more...

Australian and New Zealand technology leaders are leading the world in terms of their adoption of cloud based quality assurance testing – but there are still gaps in the repertoire… read more...

Business software supplier Pegasystems is riding the coattails of market demand for analytics, making its customer decision hub an integral part of its software suite rather than an optional bolt on… read more...

Australia has appointed former communications minister Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister after a leadership spill last night which evicted Tony Abbott from the role… read more...

Financial software company BlackLine is readying a new version of its intercompany hub software to better support global organisations’ transfer pricing arrangements… read more...