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Data demand surges – but at what price to enterprise?
Consumer appetite for mobile data is surging – but are corporates getting a raw deal if they are paying for it?… read more...
Atlassian edges closer to US IPO
Sydney-born software business Atlassian has taken a step closer to a US market listing, further beefing up its executive team… read more...
MYOB and Xero take battle on the road
Australia and New Zealand’s leading accounting software companies are going up against each other on three fronts; innovation, customer count and now roadshows… read more...
Spotlight shines on safety and security
Individuals, business, even nation states are facing a rising tide of online security and safety threats prompting a rash of different responses… read more...
How APIs are building the new enterprise
Sydney is this week hosting up to 300 of Australia and New Zealand’s leading API developers at a conference intended to showcase the role of APIs in creating “composable enterprises”… read more...
Vale RosterLive; hello EmpLive
The Australian brand RosterLive is no more, having been subsumed into WorkForce Software which bought the business in early 2013 and is now pushing ahead with rebranding in A/NZ… read more...
Half of top bank CIOs report to CEO
A reshuffle at Westpac means that half of the CIOs in Australia’s leading banks again report to their chief executive officer, reinforcing the importance of technology to the sector… read more...
Disrupt, or be disrupted
New technology and globalisation are testing many industries. We explore what digital disruption means, and find an early responder who offers advice to see off the MOOCs in your industry… read more...
Software coders wooed by hackathons
Federal and State Governments, Paypal, Braintree, MasterCard and Deloitte are just some of the organisations lining up to run Australian hackathons in 2015… read more...
IBM technology limits personal data exposure
Australian biosecurity could be an early winner from a cloud-based security breakthrough touted by IBM and being tested by the CSIRO… read more...
Brocade combats SDN procurement hesitation with year’s free trial
In a bid to ramp up interest in software defined networking (SDN) amongst non-technical procurement executives, Brocade has announced a free one-year licence of its SDN controller… read more...
Devil lurks in the e-gov detail
Australia will establish a Digital Transformation Office (DTO) under the stewardship of communications minister Malcolm Turnbull, but the devil still lurks in the detail… read more...
MYOB reaches further into enterprise cloud
The financial software business, headquartered in Sydney, has unveiled MYOB Advanced, a cloud-based ERP for the enterprise market across Australia and New Zealand… read more...
UXC predicts healthy earnings surge
ASX-listed IT services company UXC Limited has started 2015 at a fast clip with growing enterprise demand and a push into the healthcare sector… read more...
Tax office sets sights on tech tax
More than 200 multinational companies, including 25 technology enterprises are under close scrutiny from the Australian Taxation Office… read more...
Windows 10: A new generation of Windows
REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 21, 2015 — Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday unveiled a new generation of Windows, with a wide range of experiences designed to usher in… read more...
Cash sours as online growth slows
Consumers in Australia and New Zealand demonstrated their continued appetite for cashless transactions over Christmas – but online retail barely reached bonanza status… read more...
Demand for cloud surges in Australia
Australian enterprise has got significantly more comfortable with the notion of public cloud with Gartner forecasting a 24 percent increase in spending during 2015… read more...
Government greenlights ICT statistics overhaul
Australia is set to overhaul the way it tracks and measures information and communications technology statistics, and attempt to assign higher priority to key data… read more...
Quantum computing heralds better data security
Advances being made in Australian and New Zealand Universities are beating a path toward information systems which offer orders of magnitude improvements in security… read more...
