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  • 17 June 2013

  • News: What's next for Wi-Fi?

    Wi-Fi is blossoming in the enterprise as organizations find new ways to leverage the wireless infrastructure and workers, having benefited from mobility, demand increased range and better performance (and support for all those devices they are bringing in from home). The industry is responding in kind, introducing new products and technologies, including gigabit Wi-Fi, and it is up to IT to bring it orchestrate this new mobile symphony.

  • News: Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux?

    Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercializing Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack.

  • News: European trust in US compromised, says EU data protection head

    Europe’s top privacy watchdog and the Digital Agenda Commissioner both said Monday that more transparency and trust is needed between the European Union and the United States following the Prism scandal.

  • News: Mobile users to embrace LBS and QR codes, says TNS study

    Location-based services (LBS) and quick-response (QR) codes are set to become the next big mobile growth feature, according to the Annual Mobile Life Study by custom market research firm TNS.

  • News: Companies unprepared for data breaches, says security survey

    According to Protiviti's 2013 Security and Privacy Survey, a large number of companies are not adequately prepared to respond to a data breach of IT security crisis, despite a broader recognition that cyber threats are more prevalent.

  • News: Macs in business

    Apple's Mac sales have been growing over recent years. It's tempting for the Windows market to say things like "Sure, home users like them, but they're useless for real work", but that's simply not true. Macs are now common in workplaces across many different market sectors.

  • News: BYOD decision points: Who pays?

    As enterprises implement BYOD initiatives, IT managers have some key decisions to make: who purchases the devices, who pays for data plans and carrier contracts, and how does the company manage a mix of corporate and personal access to data on the devices.

  • News: Rising SSL traffic to degrade firewall performance

    Drop in performance caused by extra workload required to decrypt data packets to look for malicious code, then re-encrypting before sending

  • News: Apple responds to PRISM reports, emphasizes user-privacy efforts

    In an open letter published to Apple's website Sunday, the company outlined its policies for responding to government requests for information and promised to work to safeguard user privacy.

  • News: Australia has caught up with US in Cloud, particularly OpenStack: SUSE

    Australia may have traditionally lagged behind the US when it comes to the Cloud, but the discussions around the technology are now similar in both regions.

  • News: Hunting down the best unique games at E3 2013

    It's no big secret that game sequels have gotten out of hand. Everybody has a favorite franchise, and it's always hard to see beloved characters retired from the roster. But when it comes to clinging to the tried-and-true to the exclusion of something new, the game industry is guiltier than most.

  • News: Is 'fit for purpose' the new government IT agenda?

    IT departments within the public sector are under more pressure than ever to deliver. Government CIOs are increasingly being expected to improve the quality of services they provide, conform with whole-of-government initiatives and embrace new trends – all while spending less an uncertain economic and political environment.

  • News: Australian datacentre operators are not measuring power use: Digital Realty Trust

    Almost 40 per cent of Australian datacentre operators are not measuring power use, according to a recent study by datacentre solution provider, Digital Realty Trust.

  • News: Rackspace unveils local hybrid Cloud

    Open Cloud company, Rackspace Hosting, has launched Australia's first public Cloud based on OpenStack to give local business full access to its hybrid Cloud offering.

  • How-Tos: How to fix Web pages that print too small

    Reader Tammy wrote in with this hassle:

  • News: Opal goes live on Sydney city trains

    Sydney train customers can now use the Opal card for some train trips, with more than 4600 customers now signed up for Opal cards following a trial on trains which began nearly two weeks ago.

  • News: U.S. consumers not buying web advertisers' 'relevance' argument for tracking

    Marketers and advertisers constantly say that their practice of tracking us as we move around the web is a good thing because it lets them present us with more relevant ads and site content. But a new survey from Adobe and Edelman Berland (a division of public relations giant Edelman) suggests most people aren't buying it.

  • News: Sid Meier sees new opportunities in gaming

    Sid Meier is the latest game industry veteran to embrace the burgeoning mobile gaming space. The man behind Civilization--a classic PC game that successfully made the transition to tablet--has launched his first mobile game.

  • News: CloudOn CEO: Office Mobile for iPhone is 'half-baked'

    Microsoft's Office Mobile for iPhone is a "half-baked" effort that breaks basic features like file compatibility, according to the chief executive of rival CloudOn, which provides Office compatibility across the Apple iPhone, iPad, and Android platforms.

  • News: Do Microsoft's vulnerability tip-offs give the U.S. a cyber sword or a cyber shield?

    Windows users know it's a good idea to apply security fixes to their PCs as soon as patches are publicly released to prevent malicious actors from infiltrating their machines. But what if, before a patch was issued, the U.S. government was able to exploit those vulnerabilities using information fed to it by Microsoft?

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