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The Internet is increasingly having a negative impact on productivity in the workplace, with 65% of Australians – an increase of 7% in the last 12 months - admitting they have been distracted from completing work by checking emails, browsing the web, and engaging with social media.

Ring Menu for Mac is an impressive and efficient app launcher / dock replacement, allowing you to switch apps almost by thought.

The Victorian Government has launched a new program designed to help the state’s small businesses build competitiveness through the use of information and communication technologies.

The free Programmer's Tool utility provides a virtual swiss-army knife of features for keyboard jockeys, whether they be programmers or otherwise.

Collaboration between businesses is helping to fuel economic growth, with a newly published study finding that the economic value of faster-growing, profitable businesses with collaboration at their core is worth a whopping $49 billion a year to the Australian economy.

The so-called ‘new breed’ of Australian finance and financial services industry professionals are quicker to adopt new technology than their older generation counterparts, according to one vendor of risk management solutions for the wealth management industry.

Technology is expected to play a key role in business investment in the year ahead for many Australia organisations, as they look to enhance workplace efficiency, security, and enable their staff to be more productive when mobile.

Australia is improving its global competitiveness through digital technology, according to a newly released report which suggests the nation’s continued prosperity hinges on our ability to use technological prowess to find new solutions to old problems.

Global mobile solutions vendor Accellion has launched its new kiteworks mobile-first solution that it says allows enterprises and government agencies around the world to securely enable an increasingly mobile workforce.

Optus Business has signed a five year $30 million contract to provide managed ICT services, mobility, broadband and machine-to-machine capabilities to listed engineering and property services company UGL.

Canon Australia has secured what it says is its largest ever managed document services contract with a deal with Telstra to streamline its print and document strategy across offices Australia-wide.

A massive hardware fault has taken down service roughly half of Victoria's Internode ADSL customers, with still no ETA on a fix.

Australia’s white collar professionals consistently lag behind their counterparts in other countries on productivity, with the country sitting second last on the global productivity scale and newly published research showing that Aussie workers have an unrealised average daily productivity capacity of 26%.

Networking giant Cisco has unveiled a report into the untapped value of the Internet, concluding $1.2 trillion is up for grabs globally in 2013.

Microsoft today closed down its long-running TechNet subscription service after 15 years, due to a change in how IT professionals consume information.

One in five small business owners claim they’d rather clean the workplace toilet than complete their annual tax return, according to a new survey.

Half of all Australian businesses say staff could work away from the office. Not all of them do, but when they do they are more productive.

Forget catching up with office gossip, unnecessary meetings or lost commuter time – nine out of 10 office workers report wasting time at work due to age-old office problems like paper jams, printer and photocopier issues. 

Investment in ICT has been ranked as the greatest contributor to enterprise productivity for the last three years. In 2012 it has slumped back to third position according to the fourth annual Telstra Productivity Indicator.

It should come as no surprise that growing numbers of employees expect to use their own smartphones and tablets for work. But IT managers are apparently struggling to keep track of what's going on.