Rohan Pearce
Editor
Rohan Pearce is the editor of Computerworld Australia with a background in tech journalism that predates the iPhone. He is a nerd with an interest in open source who still hasn’t been able to throw out his Red Hat 3.0.3 CDs Just In Case. Also, he has cats.
Competition watchdog ‘advancing many investigations’ into digital giants
The head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says that the ACCC is “advancing many investigations” in the wake of its Digital Platforms Inquiry.
Australian Army trials 3D printing
The Australian Army’s 1st Combat Service Support Battalion (1 CSSB) will conduct a 12-month trial of the use of 3D printing technology, the government has revealed.
Why Taronga Zoo rolled out Workplace by Facebook
Taronga Zoo’s HR chief says the organisation has been using Facebook’s enterprise collaboration platform as a way of pushing out key messages to a highly heterogeneous workforce comprising both employees and a large number of...
SAP Ariba helps Coles cut procurement costs
Coles Group’s chief executive, Steven Cain, says that the retailer’s implementation of SAP Ariba is already “enabling procurement savings and streamlining processes”.
TPG-Vodafone merger to go ahead after Federal Court ruling
A merger of TPG and Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has received the greenlight from the Federal Court, with Justice Middleton this morning overruling the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s opposition to the telco...
CBA aims to slash its application footprint by 25 per cent
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia currently runs around 3500 applications and chief executive Matt Comyn wants to slash that footprint by 25 per cent as part of CBA’s ongoing simplification efforts.
NBN fibre to the node speeds still falling short, ACCC says
The latest edition of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Measuring Broadband Australia report reveals that fibre to the node (FTTN) continues to trail other NBN fixed-line technologies when it comes to delivering the...
New South Wales transport data integrated into OpenStreetMap project
Transport for New South Wales has signed a waiver with the OpenStreetMap project, allowing the open data initiative to employ a number of the government’s geospatial data sets.
Vocus to upgrade NT Internet backbone
Vocus will invest $10 million in upgrading its fibre infrastructure across the NT as part of the ‘Terabit Territory’ initiative. The telco said today it would upgrade the Territory’s Internet backbone to 20 terabits per second,...
Telstra kicks off next stage of IPv6 shift for mobile network
Telstra will today begin the transition to IPv6 Single-Stack across its mobile network.
Data retention: Telcos sometimes handing over web-browsing history, Ombudsman says
Commonwealth Ombudsman Michael Manthorpe says that ambiguity in Australia’s data retention regime means that on some occasions law enforcement agencies have been able to obtain details of an individual’s web browsing history without a...