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Travel Tech Q and A: Gartner's Warren Anderson
Gartner group vice president of Asia Pacific Warren Anderson is not only active in the IT industry in Australia, but also competes internationally in triathlons, so he needs to travel, and often. Here are his travel tips. Warren Anderson (Credit: Gartner) Gartner provides research and insights into the IT industry, delving into the nuts and bolts of business technology. What tech do you travel with, and why? Read More | View Original Article
Facebook IPO goes off without a bang
One of the most celebrated IPOs in history, which raised US$16 billion dollars, ended the day below where it started. At Facebook, it's back to business. After Zuckerberg rang the bell (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Read More | View Original Article
Automation key for time-poor security boffins
The way in which IT departments have been approaching information security is flawed, according to Juniper Networks senior director and security architect Christopher Hoff, who said that security departments need to adopt automation to free up their time to think outside the box. Christopher Hoff (Credit: Michael Lee/ZDNet Australia) Read More | View Original Article
The Victorian Government has made the decision to scrap its HealthSMART system, which was years overdue and had run hundreds of millions of dollars over budget. HealthSMART was launched in 2003 and had been designed to run as a single electronic foundation for the state's public health service. The single platform would combine a finance system, as well as patient-management and clinical-applications services. Read More | View Original Article
US, Australia team up on cybersecurity
Attorney-General Nicola Roxon today said that the US and Australia have agreed on a statement of intent to increase collaboration on cybersecurity. "The new and emerging challenges of a digital economy were the subject of recent talks in Canberra between myself and secretary [of the US Department of Homeland Security, Janet] Napolitano. And yesterday, in Washington, we built upon those discussions," Roxon said in a statement. Read More | View Original Article
Dynamics CRM saves email-drowned utility
Australian Power and Gas has implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM and other Microsoft software to handle a skyrocketing number of customer queries, but the company's CIO has said that he won't complete the ecosystem with Windows 8 tablets, as the iPad works just fine for a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) model. (Power lines image by Charles Haynes, CC BY-SA 2.0) Read More | View Original Article
Cybercrime golden age over in two years?
The golden age of cybercrime could come to a close as soon as 2014, according to Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky - as long as the world changes how it coordinates on creating laws to govern the internet. Eugene Kaspersky (Credit: Michael Lee/ZDNet Australia) Speaking to ZDNet Australia and presenting at AusCERT 2012 this week, Kaspersky slammed the traditional model of regulation for technology and cybercrime, criticising it of being slow and unsuitable. Read More | View Original Article
Nokia Lumia 800 revs up at Bridgestone
The rubber has hit the road on a smartphone refresh for Bridgestone Australia, with the company opting for a fleet of new Windows Phone 7-powered Nokia Lumia 800 devices. The Lumia 800 (Credit: Nokia) After successful trials, Bridgestone has now purchased 140 Lumia 800 smartphones for its staff. According to the company, Nokia pipped rivals, including RIM and Apple, for the contract. The phone reportedly has better integration with Bridgestone's existing suite of Microsoft products, like Office and Outlook, which sealed the deal for Nokia. Read More | View Original Article
Copper greenfield dominance irrelevant: Conroy
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's office has said it means nothing that 35,000 Telstra copper connections have been made to houses in greenfield estates, even though it shows how many more premises it has reached than the government's National Broadband Network (NBN) fibre. Read More | View Original Article
Nokia Lumia 900 for Optus in June, sans 4G
Nokia will soon release two new Lumia-branded Windows Phone models in Australia, with the Lumia 900 heading to Optus and the Lumia 610 to Boost Mobile and Vodafone. The Nokia Lumia 900 (Credit: Nokia) Unlike the popular version of the 900 on the AT&T network in the US, the 900 will not be 4G capable in Australia, though it will benefit from dual-carriage HSPA+ data speeds, with a maximum theoretical download speed of 42Mbps. Read More | View Original Article
It's awkward to run afoul of anyone for culturally sensitive reasons. I'd imagine that it's even worse to run afoul of Iran for said reasons. Google is being accused of removing the Maps label from the oft fought-over Persian Gulf, an action that Iran's foreign minister says could lead to the search giant paying "serious damages". Read More | View Original Article
Facebook vs. Google: the epic battle
The Facebook initial public offering (IPO) will embolden the social network to up its fight with Google for the online advertising market. But don't expect Google to back down. Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 developer's conference in 2011. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) How is Facebook ever going to justify the US$100 billion valuation that the public market is about to put on it? By making lots of money, of course. And where is it going to get that money? It's going to steal it from Google. Read More | View Original Article
Santos' thin client starts big-data plans
After a successful implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and an open-source thin client, oil and gas exploration company Santos is looking towards deep analysis of big data. Read More | View Original Article
Yahoo facepalms in Facebook patent battle
Yahoo must be feeling really sorry for itself right now. It accused Facebook of filing patents fraudulently, which Facebook was not only able to disprove, but also showed that Yahoo's lawyers hadn't even looked at the records to check its claims. It's really not Yahoo's year. Read More | View Original Article
Simon and Schuster settles in ebook case
Simon & Schuster, one of the five major book publishers accused in multiple lawsuits of conspiring with Apple to fix ebook prices, has settled the complaint filed by numerous states' attorneys-general in the US. (Stack of books image by Horia Varlan, CC2.0) Read More | View Original Article
