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Telstra punts $100 million on wi-fi network

May 21, 2014 | Beverley Head
Telstra has announced plans to spend $100 million creating a wi-fi network made up of two million hotspots in the next five years – the devil however may yet prove to be in the detail… read more...

Budget slaps down cautious recovery

May 20, 2014 | Beverley Head
Signs of a ramp up in ICT investment thanks to improved business confidence have emerged in the form of increased ICT hiring during the last quarter– but the 2014 Budget could well stomp the optimism… read more...
Chief digital officers

Dam crumbles on chief digital officer appointments

May 19, 2014 | Beverley Head
While Australia has proved a laggard in terms of chief digital officer appointments, there are some signals that this may be changing… read more...
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Retail not alone with omni-channel complexities

May 16, 2014 | Newsdesk
NetSuite CEO is targeting omni-channel along with services and user experience upgrades to support company growth… read more...
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Search for supply chain riches drives SAP

May 15, 2014 | Newsdesk
Better control of supply chains can deliver competitive advantage which is driving growth in supply chain and procurement software sales – but the local market is far from saturated… read more...
Australian budget

Budget wields tech axe, fails on vision

May 14, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australia’s Treasurer Joe Hockey has handed down a budget intended to slice the deficit, but do little for the nation’s ability to compete in the emerging digital economy… read more...

Mindtree boosts SAP mobile options

May 14, 2014 | Newsdesk
India’s Mindtree has announced that it will deliver access to SAP mobile systems on a pay-as-you-go basis for Australian companies, hosting the service in Amazon Web Services’ local data centre… read more...
cloud

Cloud still demands careful taxpayer consideration

May 13, 2014 | Newsdesk
The special exemption granted to TechnologyOne by New Zealand’s Inland Revenue Department (IRD) shouldn’t be interpreted as a cloud free-for-all either for Australian or NZ taxpayers… read more...
CRM

Salesforce leads in CRM stakes

May 8, 2014 | Newsdesk
Cloud-based customer relationship management specialist Salesforce has grown its share of the global CRM market – even though almost 60 percent of new CRM deployments are still on premise… read more...
Qantas

Executives warn social media has marketing limitations

May 7, 2014 | Newsdesk
Australian airline Qantas runs 50 marketing campaigns a month – and despite senior executive enthusiasm for it, social media marketing isn’t delivering a standout success… read more...
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Cyber-crime galvanizes Cebit

May 6, 2014 | Newsdesk
The rapidly rising cost of cyber-crime and the impact that it is having on Australian businesses has proven a clear focus for the start of the Cebit exhibition and conference in Sydney… read more...

IT managers blast cloud SLAs

May 6, 2014 | Newsdesk
Technology executives may buy cloud services, but they have little faith in the service level agreements on offer and almost three in four think cloud companies actively hide problems… read more...
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Big banks battle in innovation arms race, encroach on accounting system territory

May 1, 2014 | Newsdesk
The big banks’ battle to beat each other in the innovation stakes continues with Commonwealth and Westpac now competing over card-free cash withdrawals, while other innovations are blurring the lines between traditional banking and accounting system roles… read more...

“Perfect storm” fuels encryption appetite

April 30, 2014 | Newsdesk
C-suite awareness of data security has soared thanks to Australia’s new privacy regime, ongoing Edward Snowden revelations and Heartbleed, which have combined to whet the appetite for encryption read more...
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Cebit kicks off new venue, new line-up

April 30, 2014 | Newsdesk
One of the highlights of the region’s information technology calendar kicks off in Sydney next week in a new venue and with a whole new line-up…hopefully… read more...
Brisbane airport

Tait secures Brisbane Airport contract ahead of G20 summit

April 29, 2014 | Newsdesk
The communications company will design, deploy and manage a critical new communications system for the airport, allowing it to focus on its core business… read more...

Predictive analytics cracks down on crime

April 29, 2014 | Newsdesk
Listed New Zealand technology company Wynyard is predicting strong Australian demand for its crime analytics platform as it becomes predictive… read more...

Wearables ride wave of demand

April 24, 2014 | Newsdesk
RipCurl has unveiled a GPS smartwatch that counts surfers’ waves, calculates their top speeds, and can then sync the information to a smartphone or computer; signaling yet more wearables for the masses… read more...
Tech tools for business

CEOs pin hopes on IT to spur growth

April 24, 2014 | Newsdesk
Since the late 1990s IT has been viewed by CEOs largely as a tool to boost productivity and reduce costs, but in 2014 there is new emphasis on technology being deployed to drive growth… read more...

Business owners warned; keep control of cloud accounts

April 23, 2014 | Newsdesk
A warning bell has been sounded for businesses which allow their accountants or bookkeepers to take out subscriptions to cloud accounting services on their behalf… read more...

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