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Jetstar CIO: Downtime risk saves money
News Airline's "doing it for a dollar less" mentality means accepting risk network might not always be up in exchange for cheaper services, says CIO Stephen Tame.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Airport, Australia, Broadband, Environment, Server, CIO, Hardware, network, desktop
Australia pips Singapore as BMC's AP sales base
News Management software maker BMC Software has selected Melbourne as its base to provide sales support for Asia-Pacific, pipping Singapore in a two-way race.
Tags: Business applications
Aussie university supercomputer looking for cancer cure
News The University of Melbourne and the Victorian government are planning to invest AU$100 million (US$94.2 million) in a supercomputer devoted to the life sciences.
Tags: Supercomputing, Disease, Information And Communication Technology, life science, supercomputer, University of Melbourne, Supercomputing
Still no arrests from Aust police raid
News Raid carried out by the Australian Federal Police on a Melbourne homeowner suspected of attempting to obtain credit card details via an online forum, has not yielded any arrests or charges.
Tags: Hacking, Authentication and encryption, Arrest, Spokesperson, Storage, RAID, computer, Melbourne, ABC Inc., credit card
Melbourne university taps cloud to water farms
News An agriculture project at the University of Melbourne becomes the forefront of cloud computing and Web applications.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data Management, Business applications, IBM Corp., Financial Crisis, Web Application, Cloud computing, Melbourne, software, University of Melbourne
Infosys to hire 100 in Australia
News Indian IT services provider intends to fill out senior and middle-level roles in application development and maintenance.
Tags: Business applications, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Spokesperson, Australia, Sydney, Melbourne, Telstra Corp., financial, Brisbane
Google Street View goes live in Australia, Japan
News The island nations are now visible through Google Maps' Street View service.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Australia, Europe, 3D, Sydney, Japan, Osaka
Flickr founder knocks Yahoo's culture
News During a recent visit to Australia, former Yahoo staffer Stewart Butterfield criticized the search giant for its lack of an innovative culture compared to rival Google.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Australia, Melbourne, Flickr, founder, Jerry Yang, leadership
Australia to launch border control biometrics
News After seven years testing border control biometrics, Australian Customs Service says every Australian international airport will be equipped with SmartGate by June 2009.
Tags: Biometrics, E-passport, Facial Recognition, Spokesperson, Australia, Qantas Airways Ltd., Melbourne, Brisbane, facial recognition biometric, New Zealand
Australia's Telstra restricts iPhone supply lines
News The short list of Telstra sites selling the iPhone 3G raises questions about whether the telephone company has received a limited allocation of the device.
Tags: Mac OS, Smart phones, Australia, Stock, Sydney, phone, Melbourne, Telstra Corp., Paul Budde, Apple iPhone
IT mega-projects: First 100 days are crucial
News Executives wanting success from major IT projects need to be "ruthless" in driving quick wins, says analyst.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IT project management, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Melbourne, CEO, job, leader, leadership style, information technology, strategy
Twitter going after buy-more-followers services?
News One company that sells followers, uSocial, claims that Twitter is trying to shut it down over allegations of spam.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Web 2.0, Twitter, Spamming, Messaging, social networking, CEO, marketing, marketing company, Web 2.0
VMware service links public and private clouds
News Company has launched vCloud Express, a pay-as-you-go service that lets developers write applications for internal virtualized environments and external clouds.
Tags: Cloud computing, Cloud, Virtualization, software company, Gartner Inc., VMware Inc., Cloud computing, Environment, Hardware, service provider
Storage and data at the coalface
News Three Australian organizations speak about storage and data management challenges, each with different points of view.
Tags: Data centers, Data backup, disaster recovery, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Virtualization, Storage, human capital management, Glenn Gore, Chris Tayler, NAB, Human Resources
Melbourne IT accused of foul play
News An .au channel partner of Melbourne IT has accused the wholesale registrar of foul play leading up to the introduction of competition in the Australian domain name market.
