Australia to join Open Government Partnership

The federal government has announced Australia will join the Open Government Partnership.

By Rohan Pearce | 22 May, 2013 14:27

Tags: Gov 2.0

IBM's Watson: From game shows to game changer in the enterprise

IBM's Watson artificial intelligence technology – perhaps most famous for its 2011 victory in US game show Jeopardy! – will be used by ANZ Bank to deliver faster financial recommendations to customers.

By Rohan Pearce | 22 May, 2013 10:38

Tags: anz bank, IBM

How to provide IT support to a dispersed workforce

It's hard enough providing IT support to the business when it's easy enough to walk from one end of the office to another. But if you're the IT manager of small- or medium-sized organisation with a workforce that isn't in the same city, let alone the same state, it can be test to deliver the kind of technical support the business expects.

By Rohan Pearce | 21 May, 2013 14:03

Tags: Citrix, Case Study

Microsoft launches local region for Azure cloud

Microsoft is in the process of rolling out a new Australian region for its Windows Azure family of cloud services.

By Rohan Pearce | 21 May, 2013 11:10

Tags: Windows Azure, azure, Microsoft

Philip's 'smart' lightbulbs hit Australia

Australians will be able to purchase Philips Hue - a colour-changing, wirelessly controlled lighting system – from today.

By Rohan Pearce | 20 May, 2013 15:03

Tags: Internet of Things

Xively: LogMeIn's new IoT cloud play

LogMeIn last week unveiled Xively, a platform-as-a-service offering designed to speed development of Internet-connected devices – the so-called 'Internet of Things'. The public Xively cloud is based on Cosm, the IoT platform produced by Pachube, which LogMeIn purchased in July 2011.

By Rohan Pearce | 20 May, 2013 12:44

Tags: Internet of Things

Pump-and-dump stock spam makes a comeback

Spam comes in different varieties: From Spam Classic to Spam with Bacon.

By Rohan Pearce | 16 May, 2013 14:48

Tags: Spammers, spam, security

Australians get Surface Pro this month

Microsoft has revealed that Australians will be able to purchase Microsoft Surface Pro tablets from 30 May.

By Rohan Pearce | 16 May, 2013 13:15

Tags: Windows 8, Microsoft, tablets

Deakin crowdsources funding to discover what makes gamers tick

Why is it that Australians see playing footy on the weekend to be nothing sneer-worthy, but admitting to spending the odd afternoon playing World of Warcraft marks you as a bit of a weirdo? And why is it that so many Australians who wouldn't consider themselves gamers pass the time in the sardine-can-like confines of public transport propelling birds at green pigs?

By Rohan Pearce | 16 May, 2013 11:44

Tags: gaming, games, Deakin University

Government misses 'golden opportunity' for IT industry in budget

There's not much for the ICT industry to get excited about in the federal budget, unveiled last night, according to Telsyte analyst Rodney Gedda.

Govt earmarks $102.2m IT boost for child support

The Labor government has earmarked $102.2 million over the next half decade to upgrade the Department of Human Services child support payment system, dubbed 'Cuba'.

.melbourne domain gets ICANN approval

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has signed off on the creation of a new .melbourne top-level domain, with the new TLD passing ICANN's initial evaluation process.

By Rohan Pearce | 13 May, 2013 11:28

Tags: ICANN, TLD

LogMeIn eyes opportunities in the Internet of Things

LogMeIn, the company best known for its remote access software, is preparing to launch a new platform aimed at easing the building and managing of applications that leverage the 'Internet of Things'.

By Rohan Pearce | 10 May, 2013 16:54

Tags: Internet of Things, logmein

Thingsquare launches IDE for 'Internet of Things'

Thingsquare, the company started by Adam Dunkels, the creator of open source Internet of Things (IoT) operating system Contiki, has launched on online IDE for developing

By Rohan Pearce | 08 May, 2013 16:02

Tags: Thingsquare, Internet of Things

Lessons learnt: Building scalability and resilience in the cloud

Freelancer.com is an online outsourcing marketplace. Almost from its founding in 2009, the company has relied on Amazon's public cloud to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service.

By Rohan Pearce | 08 May, 2013 13:08

Tags: Amazon Web Services, amazon, Freelancer.com, cloud computing