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

Data centres need green marketing hype, vendor says

Data centres need green marketing hype, vendor says

Green marketing hype may be necessary to encourage quality engineering, data centre product vendor Rittal speculates.
Liz Tay May 6 2008, 1:49PM Data centre
Wireless payment system builds on Windows Mobile success

Wireless payment system builds on Windows Mobile success

Building its mobile payment software on the Windows Mobile operating system may have left manufacturing giants like Nokia out of play, but Mint Wireless is content with servicing what it views as a lion’s share of the smartphone market.
Liz Tay May 2 2008, 7:14AM Mobility
Recruiters expect temporary slowdown in IT vacancies

Recruiters expect temporary slowdown in IT vacancies

The global economic slowdown might be softening the IT recruitment landscape, recruiters say, but the Australian skills shortage is far from over.
Liz Tay May 1 2008, 6:12AM Services
Three-dimensional PDFs for Adobe Acrobat 8.0 and above

Three-dimensional PDFs for Adobe Acrobat 8.0 and above

A new software technique has been developed to allow interactive, three-dimensional visualisations to be embedded into Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
Liz Tay Apr 30 2008, 6:10AM Software
University of Ballarat touts Nortel network upgrade

University of Ballarat touts Nortel network upgrade

To support increasing staff and student demands for high-bandwidth applications like IP telephony and videoconferencing, the University of Ballarat has increased the capacity of its Nortel data network tenfold.
Liz Tay Apr 29 2008, 6:56AM Collaboration
Teradata announces new data warehousing platforms for enterprises

Teradata announces new data warehousing platforms for enterprises

Teradata has announced a new family of enterprise data warehousing platforms that are based on the latest version of its database engine.
Liz Tay Apr 28 2008, 3:11PM Data centre
TED talks come to Australia, innovatively

TED talks come to Australia, innovatively

Given the cutting-edge nature of the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) convention that annually brings together the world’s sharpest minds in one U.S. location, it is unsurprising that TED presentations are to set foot on Australian shores in a rather unconventional fashion.
Liz Tay Apr 23 2008, 12:52PM Software
Google announces Sydney Developer Day event

Google announces Sydney Developer Day event

Google Australia today extended an open invite to developers in Sydney to attend a day-long discussion about building Web applications and advancing the Web as a platform.
Liz Tay Apr 23 2008, 6:59AM Software
HP launches largest ever Print 2.0 range

HP launches largest ever Print 2.0 range

In a grab for a larger piece of the global printing pie, HP has introduced a slew of printers, services and business solutions.
Liz Tay Apr 22 2008, 7:17AM Hardware
Microsoft Australia touts start-up innovation

Microsoft Australia touts start-up innovation

Software behemoth Microsoft has plans to grow the Australian software industry by extending a giant hand of support to local start-up companies.
Liz Tay Apr 16 2008, 7:30AM Software
Virtual business

Virtual business

Want to have your own island? Now it can be virtually yours in a virtual world.
Liz Tay Apr 15 2008, 5:10PM Software
Hong Kong reaches out to Australian trade

Hong Kong reaches out to Australian trade

In an effort to promote trade between Australia and Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is hosting a number of Australian companies at its fifth annual International ICT Expo this week.
Liz Tay Apr 15 2008, 6:33AM Finance
IT provider speaks out against National Secondary School Computer Fund criteria

IT provider speaks out against National Secondary School Computer Fund criteria

With round one of applications now closed for the $1 billion National Secondary School Computer Fund, educational computing provider Computelec is raising concerns of whether some schools are equipped with sufficient support facilities or internal resources to meet the Rudd Government’s application criteria.
Liz Tay Apr 12 2008, 6:26AM Collaboration
Racetrack memory to change the storage landscape within a decade

Racetrack memory to change the storage landscape within a decade

Advancements in the development of spintronics-based storage technology could provide a basis for lightning-fast devices capable of holding a hundred times more data in the same amount of space than is possible today.
Liz Tay Apr 12 2008, 6:21AM Data centre
NICTA to receive $45 million from Iemma government

NICTA to receive $45 million from Iemma government

The NSW Government today announced a new five-year funding agreement with NICTA that will provide the research organisation with $25 million from 2007 to 2012.
Liz Tay Apr 11 2008, 6:58AM Collaboration
Australia’s first Open Source Census published

Australia’s first Open Source Census published

Results of Australia’s first large-scale Open Source community census have been released to the public.
Liz Tay Apr 10 2008, 1:03PM Software
Rising interest rates may drive online sales boom

Rising interest rates may drive online sales boom

A tightening Australian economy may be driving Australian consumers to look online for better deals, online shopping comparison site GetPrice suggests.
Liz Tay Apr 3 2008, 1:32PM Finance
Mobile Internet: the wireless convergence

Mobile Internet: the wireless convergence

The progressive rise of mobile Internet services could turn the tables on Australia’s copper wire monopoly
Liz Tay Apr 2 2008, 4:51PM Collaboration
The votes are in on OOXML

The votes are in on OOXML

To all appearances, it seems that the Microsoft’s Open Office XML (OOXML) document format is set to be the next international standard.
Liz Tay Apr 1 2008, 12:42PM Software
Contact centres: Evolution

Contact centres: Evolution

To meet customer demand and compete with other businesses, call centres have undergone a shift in function from the provision of basic product support to delivering more holistic customer care.
Liz Tay Apr 1 2008, 8:17AM Collaboration

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