Stories by Sandra Rossi

Home grown tools to support emergency services agencies

Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence (NICTA) has teamed with the Queensland Department of Emergency Services and a Brisbane ICT company to develop tools which will help emergency services agencies obtain timely information as a crisis unfolds.

Blackberry users lured into Faustian pact

Research examining the love/hate relationship Australian executives have developed with their BlackBerrys describes ownership of the popular e-mail device as akin to signing a Faustian pact.

Three $50 million data centres planned for Sydney in 2009

Data storage centre developer and owner, Technical Real Estate (TRE), has received development approval for its multi-million dollar next-generation data centre in Sydney's Norwest business park, which is expected to open for business in the first quarter of 2009.

Government meets industry to address changes to 457 Visa scheme

The federal government will participate in a roundtable discussion with industry tomorrow to address recent changes to the 457 Visa scheme.

Joomla! and the latest trends in the open source revolution

Australia's Andrew Eddie and Brad Baker, two of the core team members of Joomla!, the free open-source Internet content management system (CMS) that in three years has grown into a global development community with more than three million downloads in a year, will be guest speakers at a special event in Sydney on May 19, 2008.

Hutchison outsources security to Verizon Business

Verizon Business has been awarded a three-year contract to provide managed security services (MSS) for Hutchison Australia's 3G wireless network.

Vignette acquires video publishing capability with Vidavee buy

Vignette has a acquired a video publishing capability with the purchase of Vidavee for approximately US$6.6 million in cash.

Video Ezy to rollout IPTV platform to more than 1000 stores

Australia's largest movie rental franchise, Video Ezy and Blockbuster, today announced plans to rollout an IPTV delivery platform and set top box middleware to enable the delivery of an electronic video rental service to more than 1,000 stores.

ICTRA supports Labor's stance on independent contracting

The Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association (ITCRA) today pledged its support for the Labor Party's policy on IT contracting which was passed at the ALP's national conference last month.

LAMS rollout across entire NT school system

The Northern Territory Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) today began the rollout of Macquarie University's open-source Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) software to all NT public schools.

Macquarie Hosting inks million dollar contract for Sun servers

Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom has selected Sun Microsystems as its preferred data centre supplier for servers following a complete procurement review based predominantly on 'green' criteria.

Servcorp introduces a new standard of proof for spam

Servcorp engineering and IT services manager, Brett Olsen, estimates the company's e-mail volumes has inceased tenfold in the last four years.

Development company almost destroyed by spam

Hit by more than 7.5 million spam e-mails in a single day, the Melbourne-based Aged Care Software Group, watched in horror as the onslaught of spam crashed its Web server and almost put the company out of business.

Applications run 80 times faster with WAN optimization

Aluminium vessels manufacturer, Austal, is utilizing a Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization appliance to increase application speeds between its offices in Western Australia and Alabama in the United States (US).

Schneider Electric completes APC acquisition

Schneider Electric today completed its $US6.1 billion acquisition of American Power Conversion (APC).

 
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