Australian AMD staff survive global cutbacks
Australian AMD employees have survived the chopping block as the company sacks 375 staff after acquiring graphics chip maker ATI Technologies.
Australian AMD employees have survived the chopping block as the company sacks 375 staff after acquiring graphics chip maker ATI Technologies.
Organizations have moved from slashing IT budgets and questioning the importance of technology to recognizing the role of innovation for business strategy, according to Gartner's 2006 CIO Agenda.
Standardization is the last line of defence for many enterprise firms in the battle against vendor lock-in; however, the time taken to formulate product standards, for the early adopters, is risky. We asked Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Australian and New Zealand vice chairman Clive Gold about how standards, and standard-based products, free enterprise firms from being locked into using proprietary technologies for years to come.
With data storage demands rising every year, and technology lagging behind, analysts say big business will adopt file area networks (FANs) by 2008.
Australian enterprise has turned its back on IPTV due to expensive broadband pricing.
Charles Sturt University has added the Oracle Certified Professional stream to its Master of Database Design and Management to begin in Trimester 1 next year.
Australian telcos are again lagging behind the rest of the world by not offering voice, data and video triple play bundles, according to industry analysts.
Telstra's poor infrastructure is stalling the uptake of instant messaging (IM) by Australia's largest call centres.
Telstra is hiding behind its Next G Network to avoid improving much-needed, national, fixed broadband infrastructure, analysts say.
ABL State Chamber has sent an open letter to the Federal Minister for Transport, Warren Truss, and the CEOs of Australian airlines seeking urgent storage provisions for laptops on planes.
E-waste lobby group, Let's Do IT! has given NSW and Victorian governments until January 1 2007 to mandate computer recycling laws for industry.
Financial services firm Deloitte and partner Eclipse launched a pilot in Sydney yesterday of an application designed to capture, expand and collaborate on ideas capture, before taking the tool global.
An e-waste recycling alliance has been formed to lobby state and federal governments to introduce mandatory schemes to force computer manufacturers to recycle old equipment.
Australian DSL costs have fallen 15 per cent since 2004, and are set to drop a further 11 per cent by the end 2006.
An exploit in Microsoft PowerPoint was targeted in a zero-day attack by malware writers following last week's monthly security update.
Innovation Awards is the market-leading awards program for celebrating ecosystem innovation and excellence across the technology sector in Australia.
By Kalyan Madala, CTO, IBM ASEANZK