Stories about: Pearson

The most widespread and comprehensive IT program ever undertaken by the Victorian Public Health System is running behind schedule and has only installed a quarter of the planned applications, despite spending over half its budget, according to the Victorian Auditor-General's Office.

In 2007,we designated more than 90 start-ups as worth watching. After a second look, we picked these 10 as offering what matters most in the enterprise -- agility, seamless integration and pervasive connectivity.

In a strange case of how something simple can result in a big IT contract change, a local enterprise has switched from Telstra to Optus because of the Big T's refusal to support caller ID for international originating calls, in addition to cost.

Dell completed an internal accounting investigation this week and restated its financial results from fiscal 2003 to the first quarter of 2007, bringing it into compliance with listing requirements specified by the Nasdaq stock exchange.

With the support of a $2 million federal government grant, three Australian universities have formed a partnership with the Infohrm Group to develop an integrated dashboard for resource management, planning and productivity.

You might not agree with him. You even might not believe what he says. But British Telecom does. Ian Pearson has been BT's futurologist since 1991. His job it to imagine where today's technologies will lead us. Artificial intelligence, genetic modification, intelligent viruses, imaginary civilizations and Second Life 10.0, as well as some pretty nasty scenarios involving robots like the Terminator are all real possibilities he included in his 2006 Technology Timeline. In this interview, Pearson talks about his profession, explains why he doesn't think we will understand intelligent machines when they finally arise, and warns to the big ethical dilemmas our technological civilization will have to face sooner or later.

Provider of post-execution trade management services for the securities industry, Omgeo, today announced nine new members to its Australian advisory board bringing the total to 16.

In response to what it views as an increasing demand for security in the market, Check Point has introduced its newest top-level certification program for network architects.

For consumers, the Macintosh's hip quotient is being hammered home with one of the largest and most memorable advertising campaigns in Apple history. But the enterprise isn't getting any of that attention.

When you're immersed in storage as I am, it's impossible to ignore the blogs of analysts, vendors and consultants. The blogs written by storage company executives can be surprisingly vendor-agnostic, though the analysts and consultants still tend to pull fewer punches. Here are the 10 best I've come across -- though with the rate at which new blogs pop up, it will probably be time to revisit this list before long.

The Free Standards Group (FSG), the organization behind the Linux Standard Base, this week launched what it hopes will become an open source answer to the Microsoft Developer Network, giving programmers a single resource for building and testing LSB-compliant applications.