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 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...

IDC is predicting uncertain economic times for 2012 with market volatility expected to reach an all time high… read more...

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 announced this morning the roll-out of 3000 Apple iPad 1 and iPad 2s across its fleet. read more...

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 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 have overwhelmingly voted to hand over the company’s fixed line network to the National Broadband Network in an $11 billion deal… read more...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

As last issue’s iStart 2011 Investment Intentions Survey clearly showed, Business Intelligence has become the ‘must-have’ application of the moment… read more...

If you or your team are not managing email effectively, they are not managing their time effectively. Office productivity expert Debbie Mayo-Smith has provided iStart with a few ‘freasy’ tips to get on top of the email overload… read more...

Most organisations consider their website to be critical, yet web teams rarely have respect, power or resources. Here’s how to change that… read more...

Google+’s first snafu sees beta users plagued with spam… read more...

Servers belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) have been breached again, this time with some 2,646 files from the server posted online as proof of the exploit… read more...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s newest cloud service, in Australia and New Zealand… read more...