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Lessons have been learnt after the Queensland floods with IT managers looking at cloud computing and shared storage. Beverley Head reports. One in seven Australian businesses don’t spend a red cent on disaster recovery or business continuity, and more than ...

Campuses are adapting to the lean times by networking and even sharing resources with nearby institutions. Large organisations across Australia will increase their IT budgets by just 1.9 per cent this year – a figure that won’t match inflation. The situation ...

Facebook will break the one billion-user barrier sometime in 2012. It already has more than 800 million people signed up and not surprisingly university populations are among the most enthusiastic adopters of Facebook and other social media tools. But the ...

The Computer Society will oversee funding to help companies push ahead with research and development. By Beverley Head. The Australian Computer Society Foundation (ACSF) has been accepted as an eligible research organisation able to review and submit applications for the ...

Long term reforms need to be less about introducing gadgets and gizmos to engage students, and more about a wholesale reform of the delivery of education and support for research writes Beverley Head. Within just five years it’s more than ...

Universities should in theory be in the box seat in terms of the move toward BYO devices and desktop virtualisation courtesy of their student populations, which have for some time been connecting their own devices to university computer networks. However their ...

Innovation fund set up to help develop prototypes for open source learning system. By Beverley Head. A $200,000 eLearning Innovation Fund has been established to identify university developed e-learning projects that could, with a little more work and funding, be ...

If electricity prices surge post-carbon tax, universities could face huge extra cost burdens because computing is a prime suspect when it comes to sucking up power. Starting this month, many Australians face a significant spike in their electricity bills as ...

Could overseas health concerns about mobile phones affect their use as a learning device here? The debate over the mobile phone and its role as a learning device in the classroom may only have a short lifespan if a European ...

University of Adelaide science needed a device for seamless access and the exchange of information so students could learn to educate themselves so they chose the iPad. The introduction of Apple iPads for all science undergraduates at the University of ...