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Health check
Rachael Bolton
Electronic health is definitely a big one for the government and technology industry this year but there are likely to be some big, fat problems
A Wave and a smile
Rachael Bolton
Perhaps it was the novelty of the experience, but conducting the the first ever interview about Google Wave on the platform with its developers was fun.
In search of protection
Rachael Bolton
Australian privacy laws have not changed substantially in more than 20 years
Keeping the castle
Chris Jenkins
The pace and scale of political cyber-attacks seems to be increasing, so maybe now is a good time to start thinking about what parts of Australia we don't want connected to the national broadband network
Small steps on recycling
Brian Corrigan
State and federal government bureaucrats held the last of four public consultation forums in Melbourne today as they continue to work towards the creation of a national recycling scheme for computers and televisions.
Keeping things moving
Chris Jenkins
A couple of events last week showed why technology companies can never afford to sit still.
Minutes to midnight
Ben Woodhead
Move over Matthew Broderick, the UK government's decided it's a smashing idea to recruit a diehard gamer to its atomic weapons division.
Drawn together
Brian Corrigan
When vendors react well to the changing needs of their customers it strengthens the relationship.
Hidden dangers in Windows 7
Chris Jenkins
Windows 7 is by all accounts a better operating system than the venerable Windows XP or the unloved Windows Vista, but it promises at least one nasty surprise for people that rush to upgrade without reading the instructions
Back to e-tail's future
Paul Smith
Midway through writing a story for last Tuesday's Australian Financial Review about the moves by some Aussie retailers to take the plunge back into selling online, I had to check my hairstyle
Mixed Signals
Brian Corrigan
Three of the world's leading chip makers have reported quarterly financials in the past week
Broadband backfill
Chris Jenkins
At 104 pages, the federal government's digital economy roadmap is indeed an impressive tome
Power corrupts
Ben Woodhead
"We are a company that seeks to do no evil - right, ok, well everybody believes that."
Dodgy destinations
Paul Smith
Social media can be far more powerful than TV or other communications channels to sell the experience of a holiday, but its also a double-edged sword
Reality check
Brian Corrigan
It is now almost a year since British management guru Sir Peter Gershon completed his review of federal IT spending in Australia
Filtered exports
Julian Bajkowski
Just when a Minister of the Crown thought it was safe to release a vague document that flirts with being a digital economy policy, those anti-filtering fanatics have to wreck everything.
A little bit of application
Chris Jenkins
If Google is feeling cocky enough to launch its own PC operating system, treading on the toes of mobile carriers will be the least of its worries.
Whatever the weather
Ben Woodhead
So what's the big news in technology this week? Facebook's founder eats koala, Universal Pictures acquired the film rights to Asteroids and The New York Times is miffed that Sony fictionalised bits of a movie about a blog.
Mundane bid to be the new Microsoft
Paul Smith
After years of anticipation that Google would go up against Microsoft on its home turf, the announcement yesterday that it is working on an open source operating system, felt strangely mundane
One size fits all
Brian Corrigan
The PC industry will not be amused if it is forced into a single recycling scheme based on the model proposed by its TV cousins and it isn't difficult to work out why.
Nursed back to health
Julian Bajkowski
Australia's marathon journey towards creating a national electronic health and medical records scheme took a small but important step towards becoming a reality last week.
Office politics
Chris Jenkins
Last week, news surfaced that Cisco is playing with the idea of taking at tilt at Microsoft's $US60 billion Office cash cow
Monetise or move on
Ben Woodhead
I don't know what it is about technology fads that sends some in the media into such paroxysms of stupidity.
Someone else's problem
Paul Smith
Many Australians don't like the idea that we could soon be held up as one of the internet bad guys.
Thodey and the state of the unions
Julian Bajkowski
Just a year ago, it was unthinkable that one of the most openly belligerent companies in Australia would be looking to strike a peace deal with unions to secure certainty around its workforce.
Sales cycle stuck
Chris Jenkins
If there's one problem the nation's technology services companies are having at the moment, it's that customers are taking a long time to make up their minds
Winter discontent
Julian Bajkowski
Strutting his stuff for the cameras, the cop brandished a very bright yellow case, the sort of vessel used on shows like CSI to create the impression that something profoundly technical is going on.
Breaking up is hard to do
Chris Jenkins
Consolidation in the telecoms equipment space is set to continue, with Nortel deciding to hawk itself in pieces rather than fight back from bankruptcy.
A fine downloading mess
Paul Smith
Wow, I thought iTunes was expensive, but $US80,000 per song?
Lofty aspirations
Brian Corrigan
A code of conduct certificate on your wall has nothing to do with the development of improved working relationships between government and the industry.