With IT budgets set to remain flat, CIOs are thinking hard about what to spend their cash on -- and RFID, SOA and VoIP are set to top the list.
ZDNet Australia journalist Renai LeMay weighs in with his 2007 predictions for the local telecommunications industry.
Australian television broadcaster Seven Network has taken a 33 percent stake in fledgling Internet telephony company Engin in a move heralding the convergence of telecommunications and media assets Down Under.
The University of Western Sydney (UWS) has remodelled its IT governance structure, with a standing committee of the university's board of trustees replacing an internal group of stakeholders.
Telstra's negotiation with Optus for cheaper wholesale copper network access was an exercise in protecting its assets, said veteran telecommunications analyst Paul Budde, who claimed the deal would actually lessen competition.
Companies are hanging on to their IT equipment longer to stave off spending what they can't currently afford. But IT systems have to be disposed of eventually; what happens when they do?
BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble?
Telstra's negotiation with Optus for cheaper wholesale copper network access was an exercise in protecting its assets, said veteran telecommunications analyst Paul Budde, who claimed the deal would actually lessen competition.
Technology firms make their living advising customers how to reinvent their IT, but Dimension Data found a dose of its own medicine to be highly instructive. David Braue explains how.
David Dorman is determined not to repeat history by coming late to VoIP, as AT&T did with Internet access in the 1990s.
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Until recently, it's been difficult to use the words "secure" and "wireless" in the same sentence. Recent developments mean that's no longer the case. We look at six different options.
For Yossi Vardi, the evolution of wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi points to a future where messaging programs are increasingly powerful and pervasive.
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