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Entrepreneurship rockets up academic rankings
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...
Software depreciation slows, clawing $420 million 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...
NBN Co gift-wraps Optus and Telstra deals
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...
Jobs outlook brightens as 2015 looms
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
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...
Consumer and corporate collision calls for cloud
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...
Local 365/Dynamics turn-around signals change in Microsoft style
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...
Technology delivers banks and consumers with curate’s egg
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...
Consortium to set up payments platform for ‘economy of the future’
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...
Government steps up campaign to keep nation safe online
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...
AppNexus cracks down on click fraud
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 wrap up Q4 2014
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
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...
CIOs find themselves at odds with the C-suite
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...
Local enterprises brace for relentless march of the mobile consumer
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...
Pencil and paper wins e-voting debate
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 turns to big data as latest saviour
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...
Industry veteran spruiks open cloud for innovation
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
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...
Greentree plans US push with fourth generation ERP
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...