Liz Tay

Liz Tay is a journalist from Sydney, Australia. With a background in physics, she is most interested in stories about scientific or technological R&D.

A long-time technology enthusiast, Tay joined the IT journalism industry in June 2006. She has been writing for iTnews in various roles since late 2007, and currently reports on all things business IT for iTnews, CRN, and SC Magazine.

Besides shiny gadgets and reporting, she is a fan of loud music and harbours an insatiable love for travel.

Recent articles by Liz Tay

Defence selects Thales for Next Gen Desktops

Defence selects Thales for Next Gen Desktops

To move away from Windows XP by 2014.
Liz Tay Nov 30 2011 11:30AM Hardware
Qantas blames IT provider for check-in system outage

Qantas blames IT provider for check-in system outage

Amadeus issues spark flight delays.
Liz Tay Nov 30 2011 10:35AM Strategy
Victorian schools trial predictive analytics

Victorian schools trial predictive analytics

Examine Year 9 academic performance.
Liz Tay Nov 29 2011 9:45AM Software
SKA Organisation strikes IT industry deals

SKA Organisation strikes IT industry deals

Forms company to deal with IBM, Nokia-Siemens, Cisco.
Liz Tay Nov 28 2011 4:27PM Hardware
Tier-two CIOs could slow banking innovation

Tier-two CIOs could slow banking innovation

Industry panel mulls executive reporting lines.
Liz Tay Nov 28 2011 7:19AM Strategy
Westpac to hire McKinnon's replacement

Westpac to hire McKinnon's replacement

New technology exec also under COO's direction.
Liz Tay Nov 25 2011 3:30PM Strategy
Sydney University cuts staff to boost IT

Sydney University cuts staff to boost IT

Eyes wireless networking and data storage improvements.
Liz Tay Nov 25 2011 6:45AM Strategy
Police use hacker forum material as training manuals

Police use hacker forum material as training manuals

Strike forces identify 'plenty of young Aussies' underground.
Liz Tay Nov 24 2011 4:13PM Security
Westpac scraps CIO role

Westpac scraps CIO role

McKinnon takes up part-time position.
Liz Tay Nov 24 2011 11:43AM Financial Services
Victorian IT projects cost twice their budgets

Victorian IT projects cost twice their budgets

Ombudsman slams government project management.
Liz Tay Nov 23 2011 4:38PM Strategy
Flinders replaces WebCT with open source system

Flinders replaces WebCT with open source system

Blackboard acquisition an 'opportunity' for change.
Liz Tay Nov 23 2011 7:00AM Software
CSIRO kicks off search for petascale supercomputer

CSIRO kicks off search for petascale supercomputer

To finalise Pawsey supply contract by April.
Liz Tay Nov 23 2011 6:48AM Hardware
Apple mulls new lawyers for early Samsung hearing

Apple mulls new lawyers for early Samsung hearing

All but one barrister unavailable.
Liz Tay Nov 18 2011 3:45PM Hardware
NSW Police faces wider software audit

NSW Police faces wider software audit

KPMG to look into licensing at a cost of up to $40,000.
Liz Tay Nov 17 2011 8:46PM Software
TransACT completes 18-month IT 'lift-and-shift'

TransACT completes 18-month IT 'lift-and-shift'

Migrates off ActewAGL systems.
Liz Tay Nov 17 2011 1:00PM Strategy
NSW Police court trouble on software audit

NSW Police court trouble on software audit

Software execs confident of finding evidence of copyright breach.
Brett Winterford , Liz Tay Nov 17 2011 7:10AM Strategy
Samsung delays bid to ban iPhone 4S

Samsung delays bid to ban iPhone 4S

Court prepares for three-week hearing in March.
Liz Tay Nov 15 2011 5:25PM Hardware
CSIRO mulls cloud in five-year server contract

CSIRO mulls cloud in five-year server contract

Seeks Wintel servers, laptops and desktop computers.
Liz Tay Nov 14 2011 4:43PM Hardware
Victoria launches $85m bid for IT industry

Victoria launches $85m bid for IT industry

Promises new jobs and 'plug and play' links with Silicon Valley.
Liz Tay Nov 11 2011 4:51PM Financial Services
Alcatel-Lucent eyes cloud-based telco signal processing

Alcatel-Lucent eyes cloud-based telco signal processing

To serve 'virtual telcos' of the future.
Liz Tay Nov 11 2011 12:30PM Telco/ISP

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