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Listed Australian employee experience technology company, Reffind (ASX:RFN) has launched its new unified human resources platform which it says offers organisations a single platform to engage with staff and improve their employee experience.

Being their own boss and controlling their destiny is the number one motivation for people starting a business, according to the latest survey of SMEs by accounting
software company MYOB.

A new survey says Australian CTOs/CIOs are feeling positive about the outlook for 2016 and the growth potential in their own companies.

The top technology challenges faced by IT audit executives and professionals worldwide is to keep pace with emerging technology and infrastructure changes, including transformation, innovation and disruption.

There’s a new way for schools to keep parents fully in the loop about school events, excursions, communications and much more: Australian app School Stream.

ile learning enhances employee efficiency, improves business results and reduces staff turnover, according to new research which also finds that while mobile learning is still in its infancy in Australia and New Zealand it is set for rapid growth.

goCatch and EY are hailing a real corporate earner: a streamlined, corporate solution to processing taxi payments and receipt tracking for staff travel.

Western Australian, listed IT services company Empired has hired 100 new staff in Australia and New Zealand to service what it says is a raft of new managed services contracts valued at $65 million.

Devices used by the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet are now secured by Kaspersky, under a new contract with the security firm.

Despite it being an ineffective staff retention method, “Counter Offering” is increasingly being used as the tool of choice by employers of IT professionals as they struggle to hold onto quality talent in a rebounding market, according to specialist IT recruiter Greythorn.

The jobs outlook for IT professionals looks considerably brighter for this year after a relatively flat 2014, with a newly published report showing that new staff hirings in the technology/digital sector are on the rise.

Businesses have been advised not to ignore the Christmas-New Year holiday period in their search for new employees, with a warning that it could cost them an opportunity to get ahead of their competitors.

Microsoft has once again taken the axe to its shrinking workforce, this time laying off another 2,100 employees as the company moves towards its target of cutting 18,000 staff, or about 14% of its workforce.

Leading anti-virus firm AVG is set to slash its Melbourne customer support team, with up to 35 local staff to lose their jobs.

New Zealand-based services provider Gen-i is set to shift as many of its Australian customers as possible over to Telstra in a strategic move announced today.

As we look ahead at what the year might hold for engineers and IT staff working in the process industries, one thing is clear. The industry challenges that afflicted companies in 2013 look set to remain in 2014 - a rising cost of doing business, continued market volatility and a chronic shortage of skilled talent to meet ongoing production demands in Australia.

"Why won't the help desk just help us?" says many an office worker about their internal IT support. Yet, IT is similarly lamenting, "Why can't the user just log a ticket properly?". Never before has "help us help you" seemed so strained. Let me break away the tension and reveal just what your IT department wish you knew about logging a support request.

China (or is it iChina?) is the king of the cloners, the land where fake electronics can be more popular than the real deal, where intellectual property rights are but figments of western imagination and where not just electronics are faked, but even entire shopfronts.

With half of MySpace's staff getting the sack following the buyout by Specific Media, will Justin Timberlake's upcoming 'MySpace exclusive' score a home run with end-users, or fail to get past first base?

The mining and resources boom continues to fuel Australia's economy and a by-product of the growth in the sector has been the generation of a high demand for engineers and technology executives.