Data centre operators ASG Group and Vocus have confirmed that they will pass on some increases in energy costs associated with the Gillard Government's carbon tax to customers after 1 July next year.

Chinese-owned mining company, Minerals and Metals Group (MMG), has implemented Hewlett Packard's (HP) hybrid Cloud to overhaul its IT infrastructure as the company prepares for expansion into mineral rich countries over the next three years.

Cisco will face an uphill battle when it charges into the already saturated tablet PC market with the 31 July Australian launch of its Cius dual IP phone and tablet device, analyst firm Ovum has argued.

NextDC chief executive, Bevan Slattery, has predicted that it may be incurring costs of "2.7 cents per kilo watt" at its Melbourne facility once the Gillard Government's carbon tax comes into affect on 1 July, 2012.

Australian telecommunication providers may be forced to look at other revenue streams and cut calling rates in the future as Facebook and Skype begin offering free video calls, according to analyst firm, Ovum.

Some of the big four banks are divided over claims by a National Australia Bank (NAB) fraud specialist that more needs to be done to educate customers about the risks of banking using mobile devices

The forthcoming $2.1 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope could generate more data per day than the entire internet when it comes online in 2020, according to the director of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Professor Peter Quinn.

Listed insurance company, QBE Insurance Group, (ASX:QBE) is looking for a new chief information officer following a review of its IT functions that led to about 200 IT staff redundancies, mainly from its Sydney office.

The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has all but finalised vendors for its data centre migration and facilities panels following an extensive selection process which began in November 2010.

Melbourne-based services provider, Kiandra IT, has scored an ICT services contract with the WA Government to offer business intelligence (BI), SharePoint and custom software development services to all of its departments.

The need for higher speeds and increased data caps has been highlighted by an Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) study which found that Australian internet users downloaded an average 18.8 gigabytes of data per user as of December 2010.

Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed another company scalp, this time an Apple server in the US which it claimed to have compromised this week.

Finance industry software provider GBST Holdings (ASX:GBT) expects its United Kingdom-based securities transaction software division, Syn~, to return a profit in July 2012, after two years of restructuring, including the removal of the division's entire management staff.

While the Federal Government has extolled the virtues of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in delivering e-health and government agency services to every Australian, adult content will be the major driver of consumer adoption, according to content and applications developer, The Project Factory.

Despite the announcement overnight of the National Broadband Network’s (NBN) interim satellite services, the NSW Farmers Federation has cast doubt over the extent to which these will be adopted by regional and rural Australians.