Stories by Darren Pauli

HP's David Cannon, co-author of the Service Operation book for latest version of ITIL, talks about why Australian adoption outstrips the US, what’s new in ITIL v3 and how to avoid common pitfalls

Dr Chris Nicol has won the NSW Scientist of the Year Award for Computer Science.

Queensland's new $220 million high-tech data centre will host it's first tenants within three months.

Almost five months ago, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and 1000 delegates representing industries including health, security, and the arts converged on Canberra for the 2020 Summit.

A glowing report on the government's national Internet content filtering scheme has again outraged telecommunications providers and privacy advocates who declared the results biased and worthless.

The NSW government has buckled and signed on to the federal government's $1.2 billion computers-for-schools plan after allegedly demanding an extra $245 million to cover implementation costs.

A four-year IT modernisation overhaul of Victorian health provider Eastern Health will spell the end of server sprawl, expensive Private Automatic Branch Exchanges (PABXs), and soaring printing costs.

The Tasmanian government has standardised its entire server farm architecture on a single virtualisation platform thanks to a deal struck with VMware.

The University of Western Sydney (UWS) has today gone live with a managed Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for its 5000 users.

The federal government has today launched a $1.2 million national security alert service to round-out its plans to sanitise Internet feeds to families and small businesses.

Deployment of a national access card will be a job for private industry, not government, according to the federal Human Services Minister, Joe Ludwig.

The opposition has demanded a restructure of the government's broadband expert panel following Federal Court charges against a mobile phone retailer, previously run by the panel's chair Tony Mitchell.

A former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) staffer and an ex-radiocommunications regulator have been appointed to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) board, under the government's new merit-based recruitment criteria for public service officers.

Telstra has painted itself black in an effort to go green by replacing its 36,000 colourful screensavers with black screens.

Australia's small enterprises are set for an IT facelift through a $251 million splurge to bolster the nation's innovation and competitiveness.