Three of Australia’s biggest banks open innovation centres to spur technology development while PayPal offers small business loans as the lines blur between the technology and finance sectors… read more...

NBN Co has added 140 new suburbs to its rollout plans as part of a technology test, taking the number of homes and businesses that will be able to connect to the national broadband network to 950,000… read more...

After being taken to task by the chief scientist for its lack of an innovation policy, the Australian Government has finally revealed its innovation and competitiveness agenda… read more...

ASX-listed IT services company Empired Limited (ASX:EPD) has acquired one of New Zealand’s leading IT services firms, Intergen Limited, for $A17.4 million via a Share Purchase Agreement to be paid over three years… read more...

NEC Australia has introduced an online service hub to allow remote schools to log problems and access dashboards showing how their systems are running… read more...

Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Dr Larry Marshall will relocate to Australia from Silicon Valley to take the reins at CSIRO… read more...

Cloud accounting specialist Xero has signed Andy Lark as its chief marketing officer – delivering the business with a wealth of insight about both the tech and finance sectors… read more...

Poor data quality, lack of standards and access to skills are still being blamed for holding back enterprise progress with regard to big data projects… read more...

The search for digitally enabled business models is driving global IT spending which will rise by 3.9 percent to more than $US3.9 trillion next year – but CIOs are controlling less and less of it… read more...

Australia’s privacy commissioner has weighed into the Shellshock computer vulnerability issue to remind local enterprises that they must keep on top of computer and data security… read more...

As part of a bid to tamp down terrorist activities Australia has passed legislation which will allow sweeping searches of the internet using a single warrant… read more...

Locally developed voice biometrics technology, already used by New Zealand’s IRD for taxpayer identification, has been picked up by Shadowtrack for US and Canada house arrest applications… read more...

Big data has captured the imagination of the enterprise – but it can still be tricky to identify how it’s being used, by whom and to what effect. New research however sheds more light on the issue… read more...

At first glance a political party dedicated to technology should have had the ICT industry jumping for joy, but that was not to be the case as it garnered just 1.26 percent of the vote last Saturday… read more...

Australian businesses are starting to tangle more seriously with the notion of standard business reporting, which in the future will allow more streamlined tax and compliance reporting… read more...

Chinese e-commerce platform Alibaba is set to make history with the biggest Nasdaq IPO on record… read more...

In less than a decade the typical family home in Australia and New Zealand could contain several hundred internet connected devices as the cost of making a device internet-smart drops to around $1… read more...

Many large ERP platforms still don’t have fully functioned reconciliation, leaving many businesses, including Qantas in the past, to use spreadsheets to handle the task… read more...

Sydney-based software company Atlassian chose to release strong financial results that position the company well for any future share market listing during its Silicon Valley user summit this month… read more...

Quality content plays a critical role in self-service design. Often a small change in a link, heading or sentence, can lead to dramatically higher task completion says subject matter expert Gerry McGovern… read more...