Joshua Gliddon

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Joshua Gliddon has been covering technology and business for the best part of two decades. He’s written about IT at The Bulletin Magazine, was IT editor for the Australian Financial Review and had a (mercifully) brief foray into the motoring game. When he’s not writing, Josh likes surfing, reading and hanging with his kids.



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My Net Fone hunts for new purchases 
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Abbott focuses Coalition education policy online 
Feb 28, 2013 | Comment Now 
Forms education working group to report in April.
 
Rackspace goes mondo for MongoDB 
Feb 28, 2013 | Comment Now 
Cloud platform offering coming to Sydney data centre.
 
Queensland Health faces IT spending review 
Feb 27, 2013 | Comment Now 
Current systems inadequate, antiquated.
 
Australian internet access prices fall for fifth year 
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ACCC comes out in favour of net neutrality.
 
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Feb 27, 2013 | Comment Now 
Open source tools to tap big data.
 
Budgets force BYOD rethink: report 
Feb 26, 2013 | Comment Now 
Business investing significantly in mobile.
 
Iluka Resources cuts injuries with business intelligence 
 
CommBank rules out public cloud storage 
Feb 25, 2013 | Comment Now 
Analytics an in-house operation.
 
Dulux saves with 'make do' approach to systems split 
Feb 25, 2013 | Comment Now 
Augments legacy systems with new BI tools.
 
Twitter no solution for customer service 
Feb 22, 2013 | Comment Now 
Social media akin to airing dirty laundry in public.
 
Broadband flat, revenue up for iiNet 
Feb 21, 2013 | Comment Now 
Reports strongest half year ever.
 
Google kills account hijacks with statistics 
Feb 21, 2013 | Comment Now 
Hijacking down 99.7 percent.
 
Telstra commits to 4G in 900 MHz 
Feb 20, 2013 | Comment Now 
Carrier has 1.5 million LTE customers.
 
Solid state drives pose data security risk 
Feb 19, 2013 | Comment Now 
No sure way of ensuring SSDs are clean.
 
Queensland appoints new IT Minister 
Feb 18, 2013 | Comment Now 
Tasked with overseeing QLD’s $1.5bn IT budget.
 
Standards Australia debuts e-waste collection guidelines 
Feb 18, 2013 | Comment Now 
Attempt to remove toxic, precious materials from waste stream.
 
Security focus shifts from compliance to prevention 
Feb 15, 2013 | Comment Now 
Deloitte: Preparedness, not compliance the key to infosec.
 
NSW agency ditches Apples for Acer 
Feb 15, 2013 | Comment Now 
Comprehensive POS refresh underway at Roads and Maritime.
 
NBN Co spends $94m on Northern NSW rollout 
Feb 15, 2013 | Comment Now 
Downer adds to NBN contract cache.
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