Stories by Byron Connolly

The NBN can be built at a lower cost using aerial infrastructure in Tasmania than constructing new cables underground, according to Aurora Energy, the state-owned electricity network provider.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has tendered for a managed service provider to maintain IT infrastructure supporting 250 users – growing at 10 per cent annually – at its offices in Canberra and Melbourne.

In 2000, well-known Hollywood actor Christian Bale played a fictional psychopathic killer working on Wall Street in the disturbing black comedy thriller, American Psycho.

Westpac Institutional Bank on Tuesday launched a cashless payments system which it claimed has the potential to take around $65 million in cash out of circulation in the first year.

The Australian government’s CIO Glenn Archer has quit after spending just over one year in the role.

Optus on Thursday said it had completed its five-year national 3G network improvement program, upgrading more than 4400 mobile sites which it claimed provides better indoor coverage and call quality.

Australia’s third-largest ISP iiNet has blasted the Coalition’s revamped plan for the National Broadband Network, saying that the strategic review, cost/benefit analysis and public debate are all being conducted in a “policy vacuum”.

Apple needs to produce more blockbuster products to keep investors happy, particularly as the high-end smartphone market matures in many parts of the world, according to Loizos Heracleous, a professor of strategy at the UK’s Warwick Business School.

IBM on Friday said it would spend US$1.2 billion to build 15 new data centres worldwide to deliver cloud services to businesses.

Tech experts with skills in enterprise architecture, cloud, mobile development, as well as user experience and design will be in high demand this year across Australia.

Large construction and engineering firm, Leighton Contractors, has restructured its technology teams and removed the CIO role.

Tennis fans are being served up mobile apps at this year's Australian Open, including a new free iPad app which enables them to follow and tweet messages of support to their favourite players.

Australian company Aurizon will be the first rail transport company globally to deploy a freight management solution based on SAP’s Supply Chain Execution 9.1 software and HANA in-memory computing platform.

The Department of Defence said on Thursday it won’t proceed with planned market testing of a Distributed Computing Bundle, which formed part of the agency’s massive ICT transformation program.

Andrew Mills started work as CIO at the Queensland government on Monday, presiding over the government’s new ICT strategy and action plan to improve service delivery across the state.