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Geek Weekly: Our top weird tech stories for 16 October

16 October, 2014

This week we look at a UK government tax computer system that can't add up, continuing problems with Sydney's Opal transport card, a Tor router that keeps you anonymous on the 'net, US$110 million up for grabs for photonics chips, and cute but sinister swarming drones.


NSA spies in your company?; Twitter sues US government; Telstra pushes wholesale price increase

15 October, 2014 by Andrew Collins

Leaked documents suggest the US National Security Agency may have placed undercover operatives inside technology companies, Twitter has taken the US government to court over surveillance requests and Telstra wants to raise fixed-line rates by 7.2%.


Automation the key to solving the service challenge

13 October, 2014 by David Oakley, Managing Director, ANZ, ServiceNow | Supplied by: ServiceNow Australia Pty Ltd

Managing and automating service relationships and interactions is the next major software frontier in the enterprise, and it's where orders of magnitude of efficiency improvements will be realised.


Symantec to break up into two companies

13 October, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

Symantec has become the latest tech company to resolve to separate into two listed companies, new permanent CEO Michael Brown revealed.


Technology innovator returns to Australia to lead CSIRO

09 October, 2014 | Supplied by: CSIRO Head Office

Dr Larry Marshall has been appointed the new chief executive of the CSIRO, bringing with him 25 years' experience as an international technology entrepreneur and the founder of six successful US companies in biotechnology, photonics, telecommunications and semiconductors.


Geek Weekly: Our top weird tech stories for 9 October

09 October, 2014

This week we take a look at a US$617 billion fat-finger earthquake in Tokyo, the Nobel Prize research that brought us blue and white LEDs, Elon Musk’s aim for 90% autonomous cars in the next 12 months, and a quaint 1960s view of what today's computers would be like.


CIOs rethinking leadership styles in the digital era

08 October, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

Three in four CIO respondents to a Gartner survey agree they must flip their leadership style and rethink the approach of IT to take advantage of the digital opportunity.


HP to split up into two companies

07 October, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling | Supplied by: Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard will split its personal systems and printers business from its enterprise division, in a reversal of CEO Meg Whitman's 'One HP' strategy.


More ICT firms set up new headquarters in Victoria

07 October, 2014

Melbourne's award-winning Papercut Software company has launched a technology hub in Hawthorn, while the UK CRM and technology company Hart Square has established an APAC headquarters in Melbourne.


Vertigan wants to split NBN Co; ACMA slaps iiNet, Dodo on the wrist; Alcatel sells enterprise division for $290m

07 October, 2014 by Andrew Collins

The Vertigan panel's recommendation to split NBN Co has received a mixed response; ACMA sends iiNet and Dodo to the naughty corner; and Alcatel-Lucent has sold its Enterprise division to a Chinese company for $290 million.


Windows 10 designed for enterprise customers

02 October, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

Microsoft is reversing some of the unpopular decisions it made with Windows 8 for Windows 10, which enters the preview stage today. The company has also added enhancements tailored for the enterprise.


Geek Weekly: Our top tech stories for 2 October

02 October, 2014

This week we have a look at a Wi-Fi service that takes your children, Google's Project Loon, Microsoft's decision to get out of robotics, a new clock that essentially keeps perfect time and the US$2.1 billion spent so far on the 'Obamacare' website.


Archiving system keeps council in the Act

01 October, 2014 | Supplied by: GFI Software Limited

To help it comply with the archiving and retrieval requirements of the Public Records Act 2005, Environment Canterbury has implemented the GFI MailArchiver and GFI FaxMaker network solutions.


LMA to build APAC ICT engineering hub in Melbourne

01 October, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

Lockheed Martin Australia has picked Melbourne to be the location of its new Asia-Pacific ICT engineering hub.


Data centre consolidation saving US govt $3.8bn

01 October, 2014 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

A project to cut down on the data centres used by US government departments is on track to generate about $3.8 billion in savings (US$3.3 billion) by end-FY15, but some agencies are not seeing benefits, a report finds.


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