Crackdown looms for Centrelink big screen TV renters

Payne readies for intervention on exploitative leasing bottom feeders.

1 April, 2015

Smartphones become door keys for government

Tap-and-go becomes tap-and-twist.

19 March, 2015

Human Services defends its apps, users still bugging

Department expects users to report problems.

4 March, 2015

Australia will stop printing cash to mint local Bitcoin: ANU boffin

Reckons Reserve Bank will issue sovereign Aussie crypto currency.

3 March, 2015

“This app is crap”: Centrelink and Medicare clients let fly over bugs

Phone app has clients up in arms.

2 March, 2015

Aussie Feds cloud challenge to Microsoft Office, Exchange

Desktop and Mail As-a-Service.

29 September, 2014

eftpos wants slice of iPhone 6 payments action

Call to extend Apple’s NFC payments functionality to local network.

10 September, 2014

Public libraries fight to keep Aussie authors in e-book stores

Public libraries

12 August, 2014

What Apple and IBM’s alliance means for government

Outsourcing enterprise scale deals and support.

17 July, 2014

Apple discount for public sector? Forget it

Agencies pay full price for kit as volume discounts lose influence.

8 July, 2014

iPads becoming standard issue for Queensland cops

Radio requests and paperwork back at the station are gradually becoming obsolete as police face the digital future.

3 April, 2014

NSW councils lock onto graffiti vandals using smartphone app

By Paul Hemsley Walk down most urban streets, parks or laneways and it’s easy to get the impression of a gang infested, criminal hotspot thanks to the constant array of unwanted tags, squiggles and territorial markers left behind by vandalism posing as counter culture. Whether you call it art or criminal damage, the markings that […]

15 January, 2014

Mobile app and snap: QLD’s latest anti-graffiti weapon

By Paul Hemsley Queensland Premier Campbell Newman’s has roped in Crime Stoppers to help councils in their battle against graffiti vandalism following the development and launch of a new mobile app that lets the public report the location of vandalised property to their local government. The app is being used by Crime Stoppers Queensland’s anti-graffiti […]

26 November, 2013

New Tax app launched in frustration

By Julian Bajkowski A long running push by Australia’s independent software community to spur the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) into improving and adding new features to the revenue agency’s eTax lodgement interface has just taken a bold new twist. Plucky mobile developer Wave Digital claims it has given up waiting for the taxman and launched […]

29 October, 2013