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Entrepreneurship rockets up academic rankings

December 18, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
Depreciation

Software depreciation slows, clawing $420 million more

December 17, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
NBN

NBN Co gift-wraps Optus and Telstra deals

December 16, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
IT jobs

Jobs outlook brightens as 2015 looms

December 12, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...

Xero US listing on cards next year

December 11, 2014 | Newsdesk
After a rugged year on the stock exchange the cloud accounting provider has got its mojo back indicating US growth and listing plans… read more...
Cloud collision

Consumer and corporate collision calls for cloud

December 10, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
Microsoft u-turn

Local 365/Dynamics turn-around signals change in Microsoft style

December 9, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
Money and technology

Technology delivers banks and consumers with curate’s egg

December 9, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
E-Commerce

Consortium to set up payments platform for ‘economy of the future’

December 4, 2014 | Newsdesk
A dozen institutions have committed to invest in a new payments ecosystem for Australia that when complete will cost upwards of $1 billion… read more...
cyber safe

Government steps up campaign to keep nation safe online

December 3, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
Online fraud

AppNexus cracks down on click fraud

December 3, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
AppWrap ICT news

AppWrap: ICT news wrap up Q4 2014

December 3, 2014 | Newsdesk
A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships… read more...

NICTA boss quits after clash with board

December 2, 2014 | Newsdesk
A disagreement about the direction NICTA should take when it loses federal funding in 2016 has prompted the resignation of CEO Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte… read more...
Angry Board members

CIOs find themselves at odds with the C-suite

November 27, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
Mobile consumer

Local enterprises brace for relentless march of the mobile consumer

November 26, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
AU elections

Pencil and paper wins e-voting debate

November 25, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
NICTA Building

NICTA turns to big data as latest saviour

November 25, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...
Open cloud office

Industry veteran spruiks open cloud for innovation

November 21, 2014 | Beverley Head
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...

Gartner: local CIOs continue to lose IT budget

November 19, 2014 | Newsdesk
The chief information officer’s hold on technology spending reins has loosened once again; while overall technology spending is up, A/NZ CIOs expect their own budgets to fall… read more...
Greentree4

Greentree plans US push with fourth generation ERP

November 19, 2014 | Newsdesk
The introduction of the first elements of Greentree4 which allows browser-based access to the ERP platform has delivered the impetus for the New Zealand company to tackle the US market… read more...

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