Hospital CIOs should take a leaf out of just-in-time manufacturing’s book, harnessing ICT to streamline operations in order to dramatically slash waiting times and speed treatment… read more...

Listed clothing retailer Specialty Fashion Group has a team of seven managing its data, providing marketing insights, and delivering a hip pocket sales boost… read more...

Four out of five Australian enterprises have already deployed or are planning to launch a big data analytics initiative in the coming year as they search for their secret sauce… read more...

Australia has managed to improve its ranking on the Global Innovation Index rising from 23rd to 19th slot this year, although the nation’s application of ICT does not rate so highly… read more...

Payments giant Visa has announced that Australia will be the site for the second roll-out of its V.me digital wallet with 45-plus local banks already signed up to support the endeavour… read more...

Three quarters of Australian and New Zealand organisations claim to use big data analytics for better insight and decision support, yet so far only a handful are reporting any great success… read more...

The University of Adelaide has successfully trialled a 500-user desktop virtualisation initiative, with plans to roll it out for 20,000 users, delivering lessons for big businesses planning for BYOD… read more...

Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been appointed minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy – but for how long… read more...

Retailers that want to lure customers with discount vouchers are the target for a locally developed iPhone app that can alert customers as they near a bricks-and-mortar store… read more...

Australia’s farmers and agri-businesses are being urged to adopt advanced sensor and networking technologies in order to drive productivity and increase overall production… read more...

A communications start up has showcased an augmented reality app to mobile alliance partners Microsoft and Nokia and secured EUR 50,000 to allow them to complete the development… read more...

The leadership switch which has replaced Julia Gillard with Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister has also stripped the National Broadband Network of its two fiercest supporters… read more...

While only one in ten of the global 2000 enterprises employs vulnerability testing, the practice is almost non-existent in Australia… read more...

Telstra, which runs the biggest IT shop in Australia, has achieved an 80 percent reduction in infrastructure rollout cycle time, using a 55 percent smaller team – all thanks to Agile… read more...

While IT skills supply and demand remains a largely balanced equation courtesy of the economy, demand for IT university courses continues to slide, which is why the Government has stepped in… read more...

Amanda White answers the question thousands are asking with these highlights from her MBA thesis on the subject of businesses moving to public cloud technologies… read more...

Gartner has forecast almost two in five organisations will expect their employees to provide their own work technology by 2016. BT has just launched a service and tools to support the switch… read more...

Technology is disrupting the traditional structures of the financial services sector – but it is also providing Australia’s banks with their greatest ally in terms of crafting a survival strategy… read more...

Computer giant IBM has formally launched the Watson cognitive computing platform in Australia – its foundation technology for the next 50 years… read more...

Every time an organisation endures a data breach it costs $2.72 million – 23 percent more than it did a year ago – suggesting that the Government’s proposed mandatory reporting regime is timely… read more...