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Economy and dollar send chip sales south
The impact of a higher $US are taking their toll on hardware sales – and the future’s also looking shakier than usual given semiconductor forecasts… read more...
Banks and fintechs face technology tsunami
The 2015 World Payments Report has demonstrated Australians’ continued enthusiasm for non-cash transactions with the country ranking fourth in the world… read more...
Government experiments with policy hackathon
Australia will hold its first “policy hackathon” in Sydney this Saturday – presumably to come up with at least some minimal viable innovation policies for the new Turnbull Government… read more...
Sydney stars as startup central
Startups have until the end of the month to apply for one of up to ten seed capital investments worth up to $60,000 from the Telstra-backed muru-D incubator… read more...
CIOs to spend US$2.5 million per minute on IoT
The Internet of Things is eating IT budgets, with Gartner forecasting that next year CIOs will spend $US2.5 million a minute on IoT deployments… read more...
CSC targets UXC in AU$428 million takeover bid
US giant CSC has given itself just five weeks to complete the due diligence on Australia’s largest listed software and services business, UXC Ltd, ahead of a planned $A428 million takeover… read more...
Technology One opens wallet, plans expansion
Listed software company Technology One announces third merger for 2015 with $10 million deal to buy asset management specialist… read more...
Fuji Xerox Australia takes on technology transformation
Establishes IT Services and Enterprise Software division… read more...
UXC Eclipse acquires Koorb’s Dynamics AX and BI divisions
UXC Eclipse announces acquisition of Koorb Consulting’s New Zealand Microsoft Dynamics AX and Business Intelligence divisions… read more...
Buttonwood smoothes path for hybrid cloud
Canberra based start-up Buttonwood is putting the finishing touches to its cloud exchange platform designed to bring greater flexibility to hybrid cloud solutions… read more...
The future data centre is software-defined
The software-defined data centre (SDDC) is crucial to the long-term evolution of an agile digital business says Gartner – the future is not now… read more...
CMOs and CIOs tussle over IT dollars and direction
A survey of 255 A/NZ chief marketing officers has found that 91 percent are making technology purchasing decisions, while more than half of all marketing departments have a dedicated IT budget… read more...
Telco consolidation gathers pace
Just three months after getting the green light to purchase Amcom, Vocus is itself now the subject of a merger agreement with M2, as ANZ telecommunications consolidations gathers pace… read more...
Sydney’s Atlassian gears up for US float
Within hours of announcing it had achieved the 50,000 customer mark Sydney software company Atlassian was dominating the news for a very different reason – its looming US float… read more...
CIOs seek balance between innovation and thrift
Australian CIOs are engaged in a balancing act – attempting to deliver the digital agenda that boards and investors crave, while keeping tight rein on costs… read more...
Future ERP: Infor announces collaboration, BI apps for Apple Watch
Cloud ERP vendor betting big on wearable tech… read more...
Four ways graph analytics can help data compliance
Big data can transform the way businesses operate, but companies have to make sure they comply with rules and regulations around how data is accessed and used… read more...
Amazon jumps through hoops before DevOps
Teams at Amazon which want to innovate must start by writing a press release before developing anything… read more...
Microsoft releases Office 2016
The worldwide release of Microsoft’s Office 2016 productivity software is underway… read more...
Shadow IT seduces CFOs
The lure of cloud computing for CMOs is well understood and has seen more of the IT budget head to that department – now it’s the CFO’s turn… read more...
