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news The Commonwealth Bank of Australia this morning revealed several devices and an application development platform that together constitute an ecosystem similar to the Square mobile payments system which is becoming popular in the US for transactions at merchants such as retailers, restaurants and cafes. According to a media release issued by the bank this […]

news One of Australia’s most high-profile IT executives, Stephen Wilson has finished a short-lived stint in the private sector, with the executive confirmed to have left a senior role at Qantas to lead the IT operations of Sydney Water, just two years after he left his post as CIO of the NSW Department of Education […]

news For the second time in two years, Australia’s division of the Pirate Party has failed key registration requirements determining its elegibility to contest major elections, with the group noting this week that it had fallen short of required numbers for the Australian Capital Territory’s upcoming poll. The Australian division of the Pirate Party is […]

blog National carrier Qantas has reportedly confirmed plans to ditch some 1,300 corporate BlackBerrys and replace them with iPhones, as the ongoing corporate shift away from Research in Motion’s BlackBerry ecosystem gains pace. The Australian newspaper reports this morning (we recommend you click here for the full article): “AUSTRALIA’S flagship carrier Qantas will replace its […]

news The nation’s biggest telco Telstra has unveiled a new generation of its modernised T-Hub home fixed telephony platform, in a new tablet form factor and running version 2.3 (‘Gingerbread’) of Google’s Android platform. The first T-Hub first launched in April 2010 and ran a customised version of Linux. It featured an 18cm touch screen […]

blog Federal Labor MP Ed Husic has been putting the screws on Apple a fair bit over the past year or two with respect to the difference between its Australian and US prices, so it’s no real surprise that the company has decided to engage with the IT price hike inquiry which Husic is spearheading […]

news The Federal Leader of the Nationals, Warren Truss, has again made a number of major factually incorrect public statements with respect to Labor’s National Broadband Network project, in an extended interview on the topic riddled with mis-statements about the project and his own party’s rival policies. Last week, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Prime […]

blog At Delimiter we love a good rant, especially if it’s about the tragically flawed understanding which our Federal Government and attendant politicans appear to have about technology. And this one, by network engineer Mark Newton (he’s got form in this area) is a cracker. Newton’s target is the Orwellian package of surveillance measures proposed […]

news Digital rights lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia has described the Federal Government’s proposed new surveillance and data retention powers as being akin to those applied in restrictive countries such as China and Iran, as the group and others have renewed calls for an inquiry into the powers to have its timeframe extended. The Federal […]

This article is by Bruce Arnold, a lecturer in Law at the University of Canberra. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. analysis In the “age of the social graph”, it is possible to profile people by tracking their relationships with friends and associates rather than by looking at […]

photo gallery Last week Research in Motion held the Sydney leg of its BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour series of developer events to promote its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system. RIM has sent us some photos from the event, as below. Extended press release below: The BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour comes to Sydney The […]

This article is by Mark Gregory, a senior lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. analysis Does the recent announcement by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) of a new code of practice to prevent bill shock for “long-suffering […]

news Industrial regulator Fair Work Australia has issued a ruling supporting ANZ Bank’s decision to shift some 260 Australian and Indian staff IT testing staff to employment with outsourcer Capgemini, rejecting union demands that the bank must negotiate with staff over the move. In early June this year, the bank revealed it would shift 110 […]

news Taiwanese giant HTC has introduced its One V handset in Australia, picking an exclusive partnership with mobile telco Optus to launch the handset, which is the baby in its popular One series already available locally. The One V is the lowest-end model in HTC’s One series, which it has been progressively been launching in […]

blog The reluctance of the Australian Taxation Office to provide a working version of its e-tax lodgement software for the Apple Macintosh has been a long-time bug-bear with Mac users around Australia for a long time. But some of them may not realise just how long angry parliamentarians and others have been harassing the agency […]

news The Federal Parliament has rejected a number of requests from interested parties to extend the short deadline for submissions to an inquiry into a wide-reaching package of legislative reforms proposed by the Federal Government which the Greens have slammed as constituting a “systematic erosion of privacy” in Australia. The package of reforms which are […]

news Pilots on the nation’s biggest airline Qantas will shortly starting using iPads to access the wide range of operational information they need to do their job instead of printed paper, under a partnership announced today between the airline and telco partner Telstra. In a statement this morning, Telstra said that Qantas currently prints 18,000 […]

news The Australian division of Research in Motion has lost its second managing director in six months, with Ray Gillenwater reportedly to leave the company just three months after he took up the role, following the departure of his predecessor Adele Beachley. RIM has confirmed Gillenwater’s departure to the Australian, ZDNet and iTNews, with his […]

This article is by Adam Shoemaker,Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) at Monash University. It was first published on The Conversation and is re-published here with permission. analysis When I grew up in Canada there was a famous painting on the wall of nearly every primary school classroom. It was called “The Last Spike” and it depicted […]

news Korean electronics giant LG has launched a new range of Android-based smartphones in Australia, dubbed the Optimus L-Style series. There are four models in the range — the Optimus L7, L5, L3 and L2. The L7 is the top-end model, with a 4.3″ screen, a 1GHz processor, a microSD card slot and running the […]

news The nation’s largest telco Telstra this morning confirmed it would walk away from its ill-fated venture into the New Zealand market, with rival Vodafone New Zealand to buy its Kiwi division TelstraClear for A$660 million. TelstraClear has its origin in New Zealand in 1996, when it was formed as Telstra New Zealand. At the […]

news The Federal Parliament has kicked off a review of and is seeking public submissions into a wide-reaching package of legislative reforms proposed by the Federal Government which the Greens have slammed as constituting a “systematic erosion of privacy” in Australia. The package of reforms which are being promulgated by the Federal Attorney-General’s Department include […]

blog Over at the blog of Queensland-based ICT analyst house Longhaus, the firm’s managing director Peter Carr has published some ruminations about the tough future facing many of the state’s ICT contractors as the new LNP State Government puts technology squarely in the layoff firing line. Carr writes: “Over the coming days, weeks and months […]

analysis Last week Crikey leaked a confidential document which appeared to contain a large number of speaking tips for Coalition politicians to help them discuss policy areas in public, including with respect to the National Broadband Network. But to what extent is the document accurate when it comes to the NBN? Read on to find […]

blog When it comes to tablets in the enterprise, Apple’s iPad is currently the market leader. In fact, we’d suggest that you’d be hard-pressed to find many people working in large organisations in Australia using a tablet which wasn’t the iPad — that’s just how poorly rival tablets from Research in Motion and the cadre […]

news Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has proclaimed that Australia doesn’t “need” the National Broadband Network project and the billions being invested in the initiative would be better spent on “our roads, our rail and our ports” under a Coalition Government. “I think that federal and state Labor governments have left us with a serious infrastructure […]

news Chinese manufacturer Huawei this morning confirmed that it had started selling its high-end Android smartphone, the Ascend P1, in Australia, with the model being on sale outright through retailer Dick Smith for $499. The Ascend’s 4.3 inch Super AMOLED 960 x 540 touchscreen comes with Corning Gorilla Glass, and the phone is based on […]

photo gallery In a ritzy ceremony, NEXTDC this week opened its new M1 datacentre in Melbourne. Attending the event were the company’s founder Bevan Slattery, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, new NEXTDC chief executive Craig Scroggie (all three pictured above), financial executive Mark Bouris, Conroy’s chief of staff Shain Drabsch, singer Katie Noonan and others. Image […]

blog Well, we can’t say we’re surprised, given the shoddy treatment which search giant Google has consistently handed Australia when it comes to launching its services locally, but we are disappointed with the news as reported by Ausdroid (click here) and Gizmodo (click here) this week that Australians won’t be able to buy music, magazines, […]

blog If you follow technology news relating to Australian governments, you can’t help but laugh sometimes; because if you didn’t, you’d cry at the irony of it all. Just last week, the Queensland State Government dumped its colossal email centralisation project, which was to see some 80,000 email accounts for government workers in various departments […]