The Connect 2014 conference at the end of this month will host global and local experts on exporting, product traceability and digital technologies to address the critical issues involved in supplying products to China and other major markets… read more...

An IT security blindspot has left the world’s critical infrastructure at risk from targeted attacks by nation-states and criminal organisations, and rendered other industry sectors vulnerable as a result… read more...

Ovum’s senior analyst for financial services technology Gilles Ubaghs discusses the mobile payments market… read more...

The group is designed to offer a forum where outside perspectives can be shared and views exchanged in a free and frank manner between the ICT sector and the Inland Revenue… read more...

The analyst says massive technology-led disruption across all industries globally, driven by the rapid proliferation of connected devices and services, is moving everyone and everything towards a state of ‘connected everything’… read more...

Last night Minister for Communications and Information Technology Amy Adams and her opposition counterparts attended a political panel on ICT… read more...

Integration platforms which allow applications, data and cloud services to be woven together into a seamless computing fabric are also being credited with allowing legacy systems to be replaced by stealth… read more...

New Zealand-based Wynyard Group has opened an Asia Pacific Operation Centre in Sydney, more than doubling its Australian headcount and boosting its data analytics capabilities… read more...

Clear evidence has been uncovered of the benefits of personalising marketing campaigns for individual clients and customers – but most A/NZ marketing executives stall after adding a name to an email… read more...

A wrap-up of the past quarter’s ICT news… read more...

Microsoft has today announced a restructuring plan that will eliminate up to 18,000 jobs over the next year as it aligns the recently-acquired Nokia and repositions the business to be a productivity and platform company… read more...

Telecom is making clear moves to diversify its offerings and survive in a digital age, making a large number of announcements in the last month, including naked ultra fibre services and, this week, new 4G services over its new 700MHz spectrum… read more...

More than 650,000 Australian premises are now theoretically able to connect to the National Broadband Network, and 210,000 have done so according to a mid-year update from NBN Co… read more...

Technology entrepreneur and ex-Localist CEO Christina Domecq last night launched her latest project that has the potential to turn the small to medium business world on its head… read more...

Australia is one of the first four countries to host personal clouds for people wishing to use the still fledgling Respect Network as a gateway to connect them with online products, companies and services… read more...

The recent IT spending forecast for Australia and New Zealand shows, among other things, a growing desire for customer experience-related enterprise software… read more...

Worldwide IT spending is still increasing, but not as much as Garter initially predicted due to changes in the market… read more...

The purchase means Vocus is now an integrated provider of fibre, data centre and internet in New Zealand and aims to replicate its successful Australian formula across the Tasman… read more...

A year after launching its cloud-based Business ByDesign suite in the New Zealand market, SAP has announced its first local adopter, and it’s much smaller than its traditional clientele… read more...

A benchmarking tool that lets software teams compare themselves with the world’s best suggests that Australian and New Zealand development teams outperform their peers in terms of quality… read more...