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Tablets take a chill pill
A new survey has forecast a surge in demand in Australia for tablet-cum-notebooks – but the overall tablet market is slowing – just in time for the release of the latest iPads and Microsoft’s flagship store… read more...
Australian manufacturers urged to invest to prepare for upswing
For the first time in more than a year, the Australian manufacturing industry is growing due, in part, to the falling Australian dollar… read more...
Motorola launches fresh crack at innovation
There was something of a “groundhog day” feel to the opening of Motorola Solutions’ Melbourne based innovation centre this week despite the room bristling with the latest mobile technology… read more...
Victoria baits tech hook with $60 million fund
The Victorian State government will launch its $60 million start up fund by the end of the month, bent on attracting more technology companies to the State… read more...
Canon acquires Converga
Canon Australia has fully acquired The New Zealand Post Group’s managed services and business process outsourcing company, Converga, for an undisclosed sum… read more...
Data analytics yet to penetrate product development
More than seven in ten Australian organisations currently use data analytics to support operations, and while more plan to follow suit, deployment is slated only for certain areas… read more...
Digital invaders identified too little too late
A growing number of CEOs now recognise that they may not see the competition coming because of the speed of technology fuelled digital invaders… read more...
Hybrid cloud boost as Microsoft cosies with Red Hat
Microsoft and Red Hat announce partnership to drive hybrid cloud computing… read more...
Smartphone soars as digital wallet demand declines
Australian business should reconsider the way it attempts to reach consumers based on a finer grained understanding of their technology preferences… read more...
The ‘scary’ side of the IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is quietly affecting everyday life for people around the globe – but is there a dark side? Ever merchants of doom, security vendors are on to it… read more...
Ransomware shifts attention to IoT
A new wave of ransomware looms – and this time it could get very “DieHard”, courtesy of the Internet of Things… read more...
SAP launches Institute for Digital Government
Software giant seeks to spur public sector innovation… read more...
Nitro boss urges Government to act faster
Sam Chandler has a blunt message for Government; your intentions may be good, but you must match them with actions – and fast… read more...
Focus on perimeter security misses point
When HP and the Ponemon Institute asked 28 Australian organisations about their experience with cybercrime, they discovered that the average cost of an attack was now $4.9 million… read more...
Robots invade the contact centre
Artificial intelligence is about to percolate deeper into enterprise contact centres, with machines taking over the simpler consumer interactions… read more...
Digitising the boardroom: What took you so long?
While companies have generally focused digitisation efforts on line of business processes, there is one rather significant level to which automation hasn’t yet reached: the boardroom… read more...
HANA Vora to stimulate appetite for big data?
With the launch of a new software product, SAP sets out to help harness big data… read more...
ANZ IT spending plays tag with GDP
Australia’s investment in technology is likely to grow in line with the nation’s expected rise in GDP – while New Zealand’s pace of IT spending growth will be a tad slower in 2016… read more...
BMC takes on legacy
For all the talk of new age computing platforms, the mainframe still plays a major role with almost two thirds of Australian mainframe users planning to grow their use of the platform… read more...
Mapping tool offers hope to besieged councils
A review of 139 NSW councils by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal has found only 52 to be “Fit for the future” leaving many facing amalgamations and transformations… read more...