Julian Bajkowski

Gartner Inc.'s supply chain management supremo has poured cold water on claims the great RFID (radio frequency identification) revolution is now upon us.

Australian telecommunication carrier Telstra Corp. Ltd. and Waterloo, Ont.-based BlackBerry vendor Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) have a simple message for IT managers when it comes to making enterprise mobility purchasing decisions. You don't count.

As an Australian bank prepares to sack 300 technology staff to cut costs and put its technology house in order, one analyst has a simple explanation for what went wrong.

The Australian federal government is preparing a massive IT shake up in the wake of the election and is set to consolidate and streamline information systems across no fewer than six agencies whose annual budgets exceed A$80 billion (US$57.6 billion) as early as next year.

Communications Minister Helen Coonan has dismissed concerns that delays in selling Telstra Corp. Ltd. will see its value eroded by the cost of a looming infrastructure upgrade to shift the local loop of its Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN) over to IP technology.

Australia's information and communications technology (ICT) research and development community will receive no new federal money from the government's election war chest, with ICT research policy left as it stands until after the polls.

Public sector IT and Web content managers in Australia have been dragged into a war of words over blurry guidelines governing the use of the Internet and e-mail as election campaign tools.

Australia's ICT (information and communications technology) research and development community will receive no new federal money from the government's election war chest, with ICT research policy left as it stands until after the polls.