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Australia scores a credit in innovation stakes
Australia’s innovation steamroller is chugging on again following the election hiatus… read more...
MYOB buys Greentree “masochists”
Auckland based Greentree has been bought by Sydney’s accounting software group MYOB for $NZ28.5 million… read more...
B2B marketers struggle to identify their customers
Legacy data siloes and multiple front-ends hamper business-to-business marketers… read more...
Competition watchdog blowtorches broadband claims
ISP speed claims face renewed scrutiny from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission… read more...
Dirty software secrets and how ANZ is beating bloat
Smartphone users knows how easily apps bloat up – for enterprises the situation can be just as dire, leading to significant operational inefficiencies… read more...
When cybersecurity is just a game
Four out of five CEOs rank cyberattacks as one of the top three business threats – but few have first-hand experience of what it really means to be under attack… read more...
IoT Alliance urges nation to get its skates on
Independent not-for-profit ‘Internet of Things Alliance Australia (IoTAA) established, works on regulatory and operational frameworks… read more...
Hybrid IT prompts monitoring rethink
By 2018, IDC says 80 per cent of IT organisations will be committed to hybrid cloud architectures by 2018 – but who controls what?… read more...
Sixtree merges with Deloitte across ANZ
Needing additional funds to grow, systems integration specialist Sixtree has instead sold to Deloitte… read more...
Flush from IPO, Atlassian buys StatusPage
Listed development tools provider adds cloud monitoring service as another string to its bow… read more...
Welcome to the Hotel contact centre
When Barry Cottrill lost one of his biggest call centre customers it prompted a rethink of the sorts of services he could offer – and spawned the Contact Centre Hotel… read more...
Big love feeds accounting-banking relationship
The Commonwealth Bank is the latest financial institution to deepen its relationship with accounting software provider Xero, allowing bank feeds to be set up directly from the bank’s or Xero’s platform… read more...
Coalition keeps control; ACS demands action
The Coalition has clung on to claim control after a narrow election win; now the Australian Computer Society wants to see some action… read more...
Software spending rises in Australia and New Zealand
Overall IT spending in Australia and New Zealand is tipped to rise by 2.8 and 1.9 percent respectively in 2016 compared to last year, while global investment is flat, even “lacklustre” year on year… read more...
Telstra adds muscle in software and clouds
Telstra has pushed further into the software and solutions space, acquiring Melbourne based applications development and managed services business Readify… read more...
Digital signatures strip out pen and ink
The pen and ink signature seems set to be another casualty of the continued race to digital transformation as electronic signatures linked to enterprise software take firm hold… read more...
Boundaries blur between robots and real life
As robots emerge from laboratories and science fiction to take on roles in factories, transport systems, hospitals and households, humans are having to come to terms with them… read more...
Innovation agenda suffers election wobbles
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s $1.1 billion innovation agenda looks increasingly uncertain following a federal election which failed to deliver a resounding mandate… read more...
Telstra spends $250 million on network fix
After network problems earlier this year, Telstra has announced that it will spend $250 million to attempt to fix the problems… read more...
Cognitive computing heralds new disruptive wave
IBM boss Ginni Rometty returned to Australia after a two-year absence this week, to put enterprise on notice that the cognitive computing era was underway… read more...
