Conroy's red undies; NBN Co's Quigley under fire; NZ apologises for spying on Dotcom
03 October, 2012 by Andrew CollinsAndrew Collins considers the more curious tales from IT in the last seven days, including Stephen Conroy’s apparent megalomania, Malcom Turnbull’s continued campaign against NBN Co, and New Zealand’s illegal spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom.
App stores - coming to an enterprise near you
03 October, 2012 by Brian Prentice, Research Vice President, Gartner*The sheer number of mobile apps and the success of the app store model in delivering them has piqued the interest of many enterprises. The dynamics that drive public app stores are consistent with those that will ultimately drive private app stores in the enterprises, says Gartner Research Vice President Brian Prentice.
Australian researchers create operational silicon-based qubit
24 September, 2012An Australian-led research team has successfully written data to and read data from a silicon-based quantum bit (qubit), essentially creating the world’s first working silicon-based qubit.
MicroStrategy 9.3 business intelligence software platform
24 September, 2012 | Supplied by: MicroStrategyMicroStrategy 9.3 includes new capabilities and improvements to the data discovery software Visual Insight; increased support for advanced analytics from ‘R’ - an open source language for predictive analysis; and improved connectivity to Hadoop.
iPhone map failures, creepy data reveals, Internet Explorer warnings
24 September, 2012Andrew Collins takes a look at the more curious tales in IT, including Apple’s poor-performing Maps app, Victorian police tapping into myki data and the German government’s warning about Internet Explorer.
Ray White Group deploys business intelligence from Tableau Software
17 September, 2012 by Andrew CollinsReal estate franchise the Ray White Group has deployed business intelligence software to help drive its geographical expansion strategy.
Google in trouble, social media snafus, iPhone 5 underwhelms
17 September, 2012Andrew Collins looks at the past week in IT, including Google’s legal woes, even more social media messes and an underwhelming reveal from Apple.
Tracking graduated students and donors with PeopleSoft Contributor Relations
11 September, 2012 by Andrew CollinsThe University of Ballarat (UB) has implemented a new system to help manage its alumni and its fundraising activities. The PeopleSoft solution, implemented with help from ASG Group, has revealed 95,000 previously unidentified graduates from the university.
Egg on Nokia's face, fed govt's ambiguous plan
10 September, 2012We take a look at the more interesting stories in IT from the last week, including Nokia’s Lumia trickery and the Australian federal government's ambiguous data retention plan.
Quest Software Toad Business Intelligence (BI) Suite
04 September, 2012 | Supplied by: Quest Software Pty LtdToad Business Intelligence (BI) Suite is a suite of tools that links traditional and non-traditional data sources to bridge the gap between business intelligence environments and distributed big data sources.
Twitter hospitalisation, clandestine patent talks and Michael Malone cashes in
03 September, 2012We take a look at the more interesting stories in IT from the last week, including media personality Charlotte Dawson’s hospitalisation following vicious Twitter exchanges, secret patent talks between Larry Page and Tim Cook, and Michael Malone’s sale of $13 million worth of iiNet shares.
New data centre creates jobs boost for Western Sydney
22 August, 2012Up to 50 new jobs will be created in Western Sydney over the next three years following the announcement yesterday by cloud computing company Rackspace of its investment in a new multimillion dollar data centre in Erskine Park.
Opening up big data
21 August, 2012The mountains of structured and in many cases unstructured data that is building everywhere is being seen as an opportunity, not a problem, in Europe where it is thought that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.
How to plan for the end of life (EOL) of your IT kit
20 August, 2012 by Stephen WithersDiamonds might be forever, but IT is not. Technologies and products that were once hot are now as dated as Joan Collins’ shoulder pads, Red Symons’ Skyhooks make-up or Warwick Capper’s footy shorts. While the aforementioned treasures may be lost to us forever, it is possible to plan for the end of life (EOL) of your IT kit. Stephen Withers explains.
More organisations monitoring employees’ digital behaviour
15 August, 2012Sixty per cent of corporations are expected to implement formal programs for monitoring external social media for security breaches and incidents by 2015, according to Gartner. Many organisations already engage in monitoring as part of brand management and marketing, but Gartner believes less than 10% currently use these same techniques as part of their security monitoring program.
