Three months on from its major restructuring, the Queensland Government Chief Information Office (QGCIO) remains tightly focused on ICT issues in the state, according to the agency.
Westpac has confirmed that it is to suspend its $250 million migration to the Hogan banking platform from St George and Bank SA until 2014.
Telstra’s chief technology officer, Dr Hugh Bradlow, has issued a warning to IT departments country-wide: be wary of standardising on the iPhone as Android is the future of the smartphone.
Governments should be required to abandon proprietary software if they are to properly serve their citizens, according to Free Software Movement advocate and GNU Free Software operating system developer, Richard Stallman.
The Department of Finance and Deregulation has announced that it has created a Government 2.0 Steering Group to provide “leadership and oversight” in implementing Labor's Gov 2.0 agenda.
The new Opposition communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has wasted no time in going on the attack, touting his credentials and laying into Labor’s National Broadband Network (NBN).
The past two weeks of Australia’s political history may yet prove to be a spur toward electronic voting but several barriers stand in the way of a nation-wide adoption of e-voting, according to Symantec’s chief technology officer, Mark Bregman.
The Australian ICT industry has been quick to react to the news that Labor will be able to form government following the support of Independent MPs, Rob Oakshott and Tony Windsor.
Managing organisational risks related to changing demographics, particularly around aging, will soon become a major focus of management, according to social researcher and futurist, Mark McCrindle.
Queensland government electricity agency Powerlink will roll out a secure Wi-Fi network for four of its primary sites .
Logica has upped its staff count in Canberra by 26 as it seeks to both service and grow its base of Australian public sector customers.
Pressure on the Defence Department to ensure that the Strategic Reform Program (SRP) succeeds has increased with the Minister for Defence, Senator John Faulkner, linking the full implementation of the program to the ability of Australia to defend itself in the future.
Despite the increasing focus on carbon emission reductions within IT and business, the widespread appointment of chief sustainability officers (CSOs) across Australia is unlikely, according to enterprise software giant, SAP.
Many CIOs may well prefer a swim in shark-infested waters to spending time with their organisation’s corporate legal counsel, but new research shows that they should get used to hearing and seeing more from the lawyers than ever before.
NBN Co has announced that it has selected Sydney and Melbourne offices, the latter within shouting distance of key government regulators, the ACMA and ACCC.