With state budget surpluses, a windfall for edtech?
The federal government is cutting education funding but states - flush with cash for the first time since the 90s - may be ready to fund edtech in a big way.
The federal government is cutting education funding but states - flush with cash for the first time since the 90s - may be ready to fund edtech in a big way.
As the current ban on Internet taxes approaches its October expiration date, the debate rages once again. Will the Net remain tax free or is the free ride almost over?
FreeMarkets Inc. has been added to the Government Services Administration’s IT schedule for federal procurement, the company said Wednesday.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy used a two-way radio last Friday when marking the start of construction on a fibre-optic cable in WA. But what was he saying? Tell us to win a Norton 360 cap signed by V8 Supercar legend Craig Lowndes.
The survey by CDW Government found that 35% of respondents said they are not eligible for teleworking, and another 14% were not sure. Only 36% of respondents said they've been given the option to telework, and 19% said they have used technology to work from home or other places away from the office.
IDC expects spending on IT services worldwide to reach $423.8 bln in 2005, reflecting yearly growth of 5.
WASHINGTON--President Bush tapped venture capitalist Floyd Kvamme on Wednesday as the liaison between the high-tech community and the Bush administration. Kvamme, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, will be co-chairman of the newly created Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Sun Microsystems has scored a publicity coup ahead of the much-heralded arrival of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates in Australia, with a NSW government minister announcing today Sun would replace Microsoft in providing an e-mail and calendar system across 1,500 users in the state Roads and Traffic Authority.The move represents one of the largest rollouts of non-Microsoft based software within the state government.
Investors got tired of the gloom and doom and sent tech stocks zooming up on a few patches of good news Thursday. The Nasdaq rose 90.
With a federal election looming, the Howard government has released a "strategic vision" for the future of Australia's information economy which it claims will provide the "policy platform needed to address new challenges to Australia's position as a leading information economy".