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...

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, 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...

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...

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 enterprises’ appetite for mobility and the cloud is ahead of the pack when compared to similar users internationally… read more...

Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Dr Larry Marshall will relocate to Australia from Silicon Valley to take the reins at CSIRO… read more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A legal war has been launched by BMC Software against fast growing cloud based rival ServiceNow with BMC claiming seven of its IT systems management patents have been infringed… read more...

The iPhone 6 might be dominating the mainstream media but, for the masses of iPhone users, the new iOS 8 update is causing its own stir. We asked Apple blogger Mark Webster if Apple is on the right track post-Steve Jobs… read more...

At first glance a political party dedicated to technology should have had the ICT industry jumping for joy, but that was not to be the case as it garnered just 1.26 percent of the vote last Saturday… read more...

Cloud computing has boosted the ability of organisations to test their systems for extreme loads in order to guard against embarrassing and potentially costly crashes… read more...

There has been a step change in enterprises’ ability to economically capture, store, tag and index every conversation that their call centre ever has with a customer… read more...

New Zealand-based Unleashed Software is planning a push into the northern hemisphere as it seeks more sales and skills to fuel its growth strategy… read more...