Stories about: Australia IT

Local victims of Nigerian online scams now have a new ally in the fight against fraud with a partnership between the Queensland Police Service, Nigeria's Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and industry.

A study by research firm Callcentres.net has found that both Australian customer satisfaction with speech recognition systems, and the technical capabilities of the systems, have increased significantly over the past several years.

Microsoft is cutting the retail price of its Windows Vista operating system by as much as 20 per cent in the US, but will slash at least some versions' price tags by more than 46 per cent in both the UK and the European Union, the company confirmed.

It is not every day that an IT company asks its customers to fork over $700,000 for an empty shipping container, but that is exactly what Sun is hoping some of its local customers will do as it showcases its data centre-in-a-box this week, called Project Blackbox.

Sydney-based open source research and consulting firm Waugh Partners has won this year's State Pearcey Award for Young Achievers for its work educating the ICT sector about free software.

US-based memory vendor, Patriot Memory, has parted ways with Cellnet and signed up Australia IT as its new distributor.

The Federal Government is set to introduce data disclosure laws in Australia as early as 2008.

IT security provider, SurfControl today opened its first Asia Pacific data centre in Sydney.

Australian IT security managers today vowed they would never rely on the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol especially after the release of new research this week showing it can be cracked in as little as three seconds.

Well it's that time of the year again. The eggs are out and business is in full swing. Easter is upon us and during the extended long weekend the nation's IT managers have a change to reflect upon their wishes and wins. It is the time for reflection, so here at Computerworld we decided to ask around to find out what IT leaders are thinking of while the rabbit is hopping around.

Sydney-based IVR and VoiceXML application vendor Holly Connects is taking on the world with software developed with a mix of agile and traditional methods, without the offshoring.