Stories by: Sandra Rossi

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has launched its 12th online game in a bid to engage Generation Y and boost recruitment.

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

The Good Guys retail chain is using e-learning to deliver education and training in loss prevention to its retail staff in over 70 stores nationwide.

Following a review of its infrastructure, the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore) is replacing a mix of point solutions with two unified threat management network security appliances.

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.

Organisations deploying virtualization will spend three times more on services than software, according to a Springboard Research report released today.