There are just over seven billion people on the planet; on average one in three will buy a new PC, tablet or smartphone this year. Meanwhile many Australians are hanging out for the big-screen iPhone 6… read more...

Teaching entrepreneurship to Australians has suddenly become a very hot topic for the nation’s leading tertiary institutions with both undergraduate and Masters courses proliferating… read more...

Faced with a budget shortfall the Australian Government is looking to reap an extra $420 million by tinkering with the rate of in-house software depreciation… read more...

Almost $12 billion worth of agreements between NBN Co, Telstra and Optus have been inked in the final run up to Christmas, leaving the way clear for rollouts to 2020… read more...

Skilled IT staff looking for work across Australia and New Zealand could take heart from a pair of reports released this week that suggest employee demand may be starting to challenge supply again… read more...

The collision between consumer and corporate consumption of technology is helping drive the migration to software-as-a-service and cloud-based solutions… read more...

Australian hosting of Office 365 and Dynamics CRM, coupled with per-user pricing is being tipped to boost A/NZ demand for Microsoft’s cloud and shows the company is listening to its customers… read more...

Australia’s Financial System Inquiry has cast technology as banking’s curate’s egg – delivering the sector and consumers with enormous change that is ‘good in parts’… read more...

The Federal Government has launched a six month review of its six year old cyber security strategy and is also introducing a bill to force social networks to take down cyber-bullying material… read more...

An initiative designed to block online advertisement fraud will be rolled out across Australia and New Zealand in the second quarter of 2015… read more...

A survey of 1000 senior executives across Asia Pacific, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, has identified a mismatch between chief information officers and other C-suite executives… read more...

A global survey has found that more than three in four Australians aged 18-75 now own a smartphone – the fifth highest penetration in the world; enterprises need to prepare for the mobile consumer… read more...

Electronic and internet voting has been ruled out for Australians because of a fear of hacking and voter intimidation; paper and pencil are here to stay… read more...

National ICT Australia has announced another joint laboratory with a leading university as it shores up its education and industry links ahead of the loss of its federal funding from 2016… read more...

Cloud computing is no longer simply delivering enterprises with a new way of managing their information systems, its generating entirely new business models according to Paul Maritz… read more...

There has been a surge in confidence regarding digital marketing from professionals in Australia and New Zealand… read more...

There has been a surge in interest in data lakes over the last three months according to technology analyst Gartner, as enterprises scramble to make sense of their data… read more...

The Federal Government has created a Drupal-based web content management system and relocated its homepage to the public cloud in the search for savings and flexibility… read more...

Internet service providers will need to store two years’ worth of customer metadata under new legislation introduced to the Parliament last week… read more...

Australian enterprise demand for Interactive Intelligence’s software looks set to allow the local subsidiary to eclipse the company’s performance across Europe… read more...