The emergence of the next generation of Internet technology and applications has led to the coining of the term Web 2.0 to indicate that the Internet now has more capabilities than ever before. The Internet media companies such as Google, News Corp, and Yahoo are just some of the leaders taking advantage of this with the introduction of new services and applications.
This week's selection is Excom Education, Group Joy, Hoodlum, Lorem, RelevanceNow, Sense of Security
THE ICT ecosystem is awash with Aussies worth watching run by entrepreneurs who know how to start and develop innovative companies with a unique character, vision, and personality.
North American IT shops may well be facing a staffing perfect storm, according to industry research company Ovum.
Australian businesses are slow to jump on the Web 2.0 bandwagon, according to local online community developer, Venture Logic.
The most influential factor for deploying open source technology is better protection against security breaches, according to an IDC survey of open source adoption plans and challenges in Australia, Korea, India, and China.
Ajilon, B-Sec, Orbis, Philology, SaaSCentral, and WhoCanDo
In our technological age there is a special fascination with directions of technologies and their perceived impacts on our lives in the future. The Internet has been a driving force. The technologies to build systems to make them faster, capable of handling and moving large and larger amounts of information, have developed to help drive growth. New applications are appearing all the time to entice organisations into new ways of using IT.
While efforts focused on decreasing the environmental impact of IT are still in the nascent stage, environmental concerns are climbing up the corporate IT and government regulation agenda, according to surveys by Springboard Research.
Infrastructure virtualisation technology is set to become the dominant technology in data centres within the next two to three years, according to a report published by Butler Groups.
With fewer than 100 days before the end of 2007, there is a quickly-closing window of opportunity for CIOs to ensure their strategic goals for the year have been met. Because IDC forecasts that technology budgets will be under intense pressure in 2008, the message to CIOs is to spend now while you can.
Bryn Systems, Dtecht, InfoTrak, InterDev, Open Networks, and GeoData -- six more Australian companies making a name for themselves.
"There's no trick in being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you," Will Rogers famously said. How can you argue with that in an election year!
Upgrading to next-generation public networks (NGNs) is easily the greatest challenge confronting the Australian telecoms industry, according to independent research consultancy, BuddeComm.
Although nearly two-thirds (61 per cent) of Australian businesses have an environmental policy or strategy in place covering IT infrastructure, little more than a third (36 per cent) believe that the reduction of carbon emissions from their IT infrastructure is a high priority for their business, according to an IBM study examining the practices and attitudes of large Australian enterprises towards Green IT.