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Australia Post/NetSuite collaboration to rival Amazon’s delivery service levels
Australia Post and NetSuite are working together to develop a system that will allow retailers to manage everything from online sales to customer delivery from within one cloud-based system… read more...
Microsoft switches on local cloud, software store
Microsoft has switched on its Australian cloud, operated out of data centres in Sydney and Melbourne, announced Equinex and Telstra as express network partners, along with a cloud marketplace… read more...
Newly privatised BMC beefs up R&D spend
Getting out of the public eye has allowed BMC to redirect shareholder funds into R&D and help it live up to its new motto “bring IT to life” – something that could refer to either the company or its customers’ IT projects… read more...
Mobile cast as the great retail leveler
Mobility has been identified as retailers’ biggest ally – able to restore some of the balance to the retailer-customer relationship which has been skewed by the internet… read more...
PayPal offers Aussies business loans; lines blur between technology and finance
Three of Australia’s biggest banks open innovation centres to spur technology development while PayPal offers small business loans as the lines blur between the technology and finance sectors… read more...
NBN adds 140 suburbs to rollout plan
NBN Co has added 140 new suburbs to its rollout plans as part of a technology test, taking the number of homes and businesses that will be able to connect to the national broadband network to 950,000… read more...
Australia finally opens its innovation kimono
After being taken to task by the chief scientist for its lack of an innovation policy, the Australian Government has finally revealed its innovation and competitiveness agenda… read more...
Intergen acquired by ASX-listed Empired, creates largest Australasian Microsoft services provider
ASX-listed IT services company Empired Limited (ASX:EPD) has acquired one of New Zealand’s leading IT services firms, Intergen Limited, for $A17.4 million via a Share Purchase Agreement to be paid over three years… read more...
Navman Wireless targets ‘people and plant’ with fleet management BI product
Navman Wireless, a global leader in GPS-based fleet optimisation products and services, has today launched its cloud-based BI-as-a-service solution for enterprise fleets called Adaptive Intelligence… read more...
SAP and IBM hook up on HANA
Software giant SAP has forged an international deal with IBM which will host its SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud Services in its data centres around the world – including those in Sydney and Melbourne… read more...
Remote territories pose massive service challenge
NEC Australia has introduced an online service hub to allow remote schools to log problems and access dashboards showing how their systems are running… read more...
Australian enterprise leads in mobile and cloud
Australian enterprises’ appetite for mobility and the cloud is ahead of the pack when compared to similar users internationally… read more...
Tech-savvy boss takes reins at CSIRO
Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Dr Larry Marshall will relocate to Australia from Silicon Valley to take the reins at CSIRO… read more...
Xero signs marketing guru Andy Lark
Cloud accounting specialist Xero has signed Andy Lark as its chief marketing officer – delivering the business with a wealth of insight about both the tech and finance sectors… read more...
Scarcity of data quality, standards and skills stalls big data
Poor data quality, lack of standards and access to skills are still being blamed for holding back enterprise progress with regard to big data projects… read more...
Gartner: Digital economy drives IT spending and CIO agenda
The search for digitally enabled business models is driving global IT spending which will rise by 3.9 percent to more than $US3.9 trillion next year – but CIOs are controlling less and less of it… read more...
Privacy commissioner Bashes enterprise software
Australia’s privacy commissioner has weighed into the Shellshock computer vulnerability issue to remind local enterprises that they must keep on top of computer and data security… read more...
Australia passes Orwellian web-trawl laws
As part of a bid to tamp down terrorist activities Australia has passed legislation which will allow sweeping searches of the internet using a single warrant… read more...
Australian biometrics pin down US offenders
Locally developed voice biometrics technology, already used by New Zealand’s IRD for taxpayer identification, has been picked up by Shadowtrack for US and Canada house arrest applications… read more...
Report debunks semblance of big data progress in business
Big data has captured the imagination of the enterprise – but it can still be tricky to identify how it’s being used, by whom and to what effect. New research however sheds more light on the issue… read more...