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Leaks pressuring NBN Co to deliver better solution?
Respected telecoms analyst Paul Budde has lauded the leak of documents which he said ‘reveal interesting twists and turns regarding the development of the NBN’… read more...
Australian Government gets to grips with the blockchain
Moves afoot to recognise Bitcoin as money… read more...
ACS places finger on Australia’s digital pulse
The Australian Computer Society has published the 2016 Digital Pulse report which provides a snapshot of the nation’s ICT sector and people… read more...
EDI veteran branches into collaboration
This week the people behind successful EDI service MessageXchange launched a new platform which has piqued the interest of the Australian Government… read more...
Second valley of death looms for tech sector
Australian start ups are facing a “valley of death” in terms of poor access to later stage funding which peaked at $90 million in 2007, but had halved by last year… read more...
Financial Services firms under threat from FinTechs
A new PwC survey shows that financial services firms believe almost a quarter of their business is at risk from bullish FinTechs… read more...
Australia faces innovation countdown
The clock is ticking for Australian innovation with the nation’s peak ICT research body giving the nation just a three to five year innovation window… read more...
Nine in ten businesses caught out by unplanned growth – Epicor
Some 89 percent of companies across the globe were left exposed to risk in 2015 due to the impact of surprise expansion… read more...
Pronto says VC model fails to delight
Pronto software leadership has called out venture capitalists for breeding distrust in the mid-tier ERP market… read more...
Qualtrics selects Sydney, warns about unicorns
Cloud based insight platform Qualtrics has made Sydney its Asia Pacific headquarters and slated its ambition to grow its workforce and triple local sales during 2016… read more...
ISP warns NBN model may wreck competition
Listed telecommunications business MyNetFone has warned that the economic foundations of the NBN will crumble without significant reform… read more...
Blow up the transformation blockers
For the last five years, Gary O’Brien has worked with some of the world’s largest enterprises on their digital transformation initiatives and he’s identified five key blockers… read more...
Microsoft goes full monty with new ERP
Microsoft has gone the full cloud monty with the updated Dynamics AX release, local retailer Citta to be among first to hook up… read more...
Technology takes on the catwalk
The fashion industry has already been disrupted by online commerce – the advent of 3D printers, wearable technology and mass customisation will make that seem like child’s play… read more...
Insurance sector faces mass disruption
One in four Australians would be quite happy to buy insurance products through a technology company like Google in the future; it’s a wake up call for the insurance sector… read more...
Atlassian turns teenage years into gold
Atlassian turns 14 this month, and now boasts 54,000 customers, 1,400 employees, revenues north of $US320 million and a market capitalisation of around $US5 billion… read more...
SugarCRM talks your language with new acquisition
The new acquisition is one of three in the last couple of years and will help Sugar users be more emotionally intelligent… read more...
ERP vendor says integration still a bugbear
The CEO and president of IFS chats with iStart about integration, unconstrained development and operational intelligence as the ‘IoT’ moves from concept to proof of concept… read more...
First stand up for Government’s innovation agenda
The 100 day “anniversary” of Malcolm Turnbull’s $1.1 billion innovation statement falls this month, and already questions are being asked about what has really been achieved… read more...
IoT will be the only way by 2020
SVP of IDC Vernon Turner offers his thoughts on why IoT will be the new IT in less than five years’ time… read more...