Stories by Tim Lohman

Monash University is upping its use of next generation, high definition video conferencing in an effort to foster greater collaboration between students, lecturers and researchers.

As the global financial crisis continues to bite and staff are laid off, the question of whether the recession presents an opportunity organisation to pick up some highly skilled workers at fire-sale prices has emerged.

EBay has defended its policies on the reselling of event tickets on its site following the mass posting of AC/DC tickets on its site just hours after the tickets went on sale, and promptly sold out, yesterday.

Online ticket sales site Ticketek was this morning paralysed by demand for tickets to AC/DC’s Black Ice Australian tour, which went on sale this morning at 9am.

Greater Dandenong City Council has moved to breaking down its information silos and foster a more collaborative work practice with the roll out of a new electronic content management (ECM) system.

A lack of financial penalties and a mandate to publicly admit data breaches may be clouding the real state of credit card payment and security in Australia, according to a senior executive from the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council.

The federal government has begun spruiking its Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), a communications advocacy body due to begin operations on 1 July.

Building a high performing team is a challenge for many CIOs with a myriad of factors to consider – such as managing personalities and skills, and benchmarking and assessing performance.

The global financial crisis is beginning to negatively impact the optimism of CIOs across Australia and New Zealand, Gartner has found.

Hutchison has flagged that its future in Australia could be in doubt if its proposed merger with Vodafone is not given the green light by the ACCC, its CEO Nigel Dews has said.

The ACCC has warned that the proposed merger between Hutchison and Vodafone, announced on February 9th, could lead to increased prices for mobile telephony and mobile broadband (MBB).

The Commonwealth Bank has announced an upgrade of its customer service portal, NetBank, aimed at creating a single site, sign on and password to access a wider range of the bank’s websites and services.

IBM has launched new ‘stream computing’ software which will allow the real time analysis of several hundred simultaneous streams of data to deliver.

The federal government’s budget has drawn a mixed response from industry analysts and organisations

Telstra is increasingly turning to virtualisation as its core strategy to both manage the rising costs of, and growth in, its data centres, according the company’s CIO, John McInerney.