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Telstra scoops $474 million UC deal with Department of Human Services

June 27, 2012 | Newsdesk
The Department of Human Services and Telstra have announced the signing of a new agreement worth $474 million that will see the telco build and manage a new unified communications network over the next five years… read more...

The expert’s guide to Sharepoint

May 29, 2012 | iStart
Information overload. It defines the age we live in… read more...

New NBN-specific cloud-based ISP launched

April 26, 2012 | Newsdesk
A new ISP designed to exploit the NBN rollout says it has secured funding and plans to launch a low-cost, high bandwidth service before the end of the year… read more...
Nike in the cloud

Nike stores running ERP in the cloud

March 22, 2012 | Newsdesk
A deal has been signed to bring cloud-based ERP and BI solutions to Nike Australia franchise, as the company focuses on integration and analytics to power aggressive growth… read more...

Aus lags NZ with cloud computing industry code of practice

March 20, 2012 | Newsdesk
Industry group the New Zealand Computer Society (NZCS) has released the first draft of its voluntary code-of-conduct document, the Cloud Computing Code of Practice, one of the first of its kind in the world… read more...

Support communities are where customers are won and lost

March 13, 2012 | Newsdesk
Support communities, indeed social media in general, is how a potential customer finds out what an organisation is really like, says Gerry McGovern. So why are so many companies getting the support community model all wrong?… read more...

When supply chain meets eHealth – GS1 healthcare conference

February 24, 2012 | Newsdesk
With representatives from nearly 30 countries already confirmed, registrations are running hot for the 21st GS1 Global Healthcare Conference, to be held in Sydney from 20-22 March 2012… read more...

Telstra offers free credit to flooded customers

February 7, 2012 | Newsdesk
Telstra is offering relief packages for residential and small business customers in Moree Plains Shire Council and Tamworth Regional C­ouncil areas as well as Mitchell, Roma, Charleville and surrounding districts who have lost services as a result of the current flooding… read more...
turbulent economic climate

Turbulent economic climate predicted for 2012

December 8, 2011 | Newsdesk
IDC is predicting uncertain economic times for 2012 with market volatility expected to reach an all time high… read more...

Acer to supply 65,000 notebooks to Queensland schools – govt. to foot the bill

December 1, 2011 | Newsdesk
Acer Computer Australia has won the Queensland Department of Education and Training tender to supply 65,000 3G-enabled notebooks for round three of the National Secondary School Computer Fund by the end of this year… read more...

Jetstar launches in-flight iPads

November 9, 2011 | Newsdesk
Jetstar announced this morning the roll-out of 3000 Apple iPad 1 and iPad 2s across its fleet. read more...
Samsung bigger than apple

Bigger than Apple – Samsung surges ahead to become world’s biggest smartphone seller

October 31, 2011 | Newsdesk
Samsung has kicked Apple off the top of the heap as sales of Samsung electronics overtake those of former market-dominator Apple Inc… read more...

Fujitsu entices SMEs with free cloud offer

October 26, 2011 | Newsdesk
Fujitsu is targeting SMEs and ISVs by offering a free trial of its Australian-based computing cloud platform as it attempts to push beyond the enterprise sector… read more...

Telstra shareholders green light NBN handover

October 19, 2011 | Newsdesk
Telstra shareholders have overwhelmingly voted to hand over the company’s fixed line network to the National Broadband Network in an $11 billion deal… read more...

Australian business leaders unwilling to embrace technology

September 22, 2011 | Newsdesk
Even though most agree that technological innovation will be the greatest agent of change for their organisation over the next 10 years, fear of the unknown is keeping executives from embracing it, says two new research studies looking at the attitudes of Australian decision makers… read more...

Want to generate B2B leads from Twitter? Get your prospects to follow you

September 8, 2011 | Tom Skotidas
There is no doubting Twitter’s massive growth worldwide. Almost everyone knows of Twitter, millions use it, and thousands are hopelessly addicted to it… read more...

Infor announces new apps for Force.com; Salesforce buys in

September 6, 2011 | Newsdesk
Software vendors Infor and Salesforce.com have revealed plans to release three new applications for Force.com, integrating Infor’s ERP solutions into the cloud platform… read more...

Apple defeats Samsung in European court

September 6, 2011 | Newsdesk
Apple has achieved a decisive victory in the ongoing patent war with Samsung with a Dutch judge banning the sale of three Samsung devices from mid-October onwards… read more...
MYOB sold to US

MYOB sold to US firm

August 23, 2011 | Newsdesk
The bidding war over MYOB has ended with the accounting software giant being sold to US private equity firm Bain Capital for a reported $A1.2 billion… read more...

Free iPhone app maps out your nearest taxi

August 1, 2011 | Newsdesk
A new smartphone application connects taxi drivers directly with passengers in real-time by broadcasting a passenger’s location to taxi drivers via a smartphone’s GPS… read more...

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