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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...
Michael Bennetts

Switched on CEO: Michael Bennetts unmasking Z

November 7, 2011 | Jonathan Cotton
Transitioning Shell from global outpost to fresh local upstart has presented some major marketing conundrums, and some tough technology challenges along the way… 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...

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...

7 things to hate about IT recruiters

October 11, 2011 | iStart
Business forums, professional networking sites and the internet in general is awash with stories detailing just how difficult dealing with an IT recruiter can be. But is all this online odium justified? Are they really the new ‘used-car salesman’? Or are recruiters just the fall guys for frustrated job-seekers in a down-turned economy?… read more...

Switched on CEO: How tech took the V8 Supercars to international stage

October 6, 2011 | iStart
The cutting-edge tech required for modern-day V8 racing means that you’re just as likely to find computer engineers and grease-monkeys in the pit… read more...

What we can learn from Yahoo!

September 22, 2011 | Gerry McGovern
Yahoo is an extremely popular website, yet its stock has performed really badly. Why? Because it sells stuff (banner ads) people don’t want to buy… 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...

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...
Smart card

Smart card technology: A pocket guide

July 14, 2011 | iStart
When it comes to engaging with your customers, there’s plenty to know in the realm of card technology. So if you don’t know your ICC from your NFC, read on to find out just how smart cards can serve your businesss… read more...

The iStart Smartphone Roundup

July 14, 2011 | iStart
Thinking about buying a smartphone? Before you take the plunge check out the iStart Smartphone Roundup – it will help you navigate the pros and cons of six of the most popular units on the market, as well as important specs before you buy… read more...
Virtual desktop

The desktop goes virtual

July 12, 2011 | iStart
You may shudder at the thought, but modern enterprise architecture is slowly but surely returning to the mainframe fold, at least conceptually, and never more so than with the idea of virtual desktops – hosted in ‘the cloud’… read more...
The web is critical

The web is critical. The web team is not.

July 12, 2011 | Gerry McGovern
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+ unleashes the spam

July 11, 2011 | Newsdesk
Google+’s first snafu sees beta users plagued with spam… read more...

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