• Hiccups for Tassie schools' ICT merger

    Tasmania's plan to combine its year 11 and 12 colleges with its TAFEs to form a new statewide system with shared ICT services has run into teething issues.

    03 July 2009 12:41 PM

  • Squiz buys Funnelback

    Content management company Squiz has acquired Funnelback, an Australian search firm spun off from the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation.

    03 July 2009 11:18 AM

  • Horror story: Qld Health datacentre disaster

    On 20 May, a brief electricity brown-out struck a Queensland Health datacentre, starting a chain of incidents that resulted in serious outages of over 20 health applications. Read our blow by blow account of an event that constitutes every CIO's nightmare scenario.

    02 July 2009 05:46 PM

  • ICT companies using more lobbyists

    Australian technology and telecommunications companies are making more use of lobbyists to gain influence in Canberra, the Federal Government's lobbyist register has revealed.

    02 July 2009 02:40 PM

  • ATO brings Boston back

    Boston Consulting Group was involved in the process that led to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) signing a $604 million extension with IT outsourcer EDS, the agency revealed yesterday.

    30 June 2009 12:18 PM

  • EDS scores $604m ATO extension

    The Australian Taxation Office has decided to extend its contracts with EDS for end computing and centralised computing services over a further two years.

    29 June 2009 05:02 PM

My AWA is a legal employment instrument and I have and continue to do very well on it thank you. I do not need a union... Just shows how out of touch the union movement is.

From: Union to meet 'good faith' Telstra

Read it here, then discuss it in Talkback.

  • Ex-Visy CIO joins software vendor

    Former Visy Industries CIO Roland Spitty has joined the ranks of Australian supply and demand system vendor SolveIT Software.

    29 June 2009 11:50 AM

  • Defence rethinks $200m Kaz contract

    The Department of Defence has put out a request for information to test a new model for providing the services in its $200 million central ICT infrastructure contract, currently serviced by Kaz Group.

    26 June 2009 05:11 PM

  • Reinecke in $70k Rudd consulting win

    The former chief executive of Australia's peak e-health group picked up $70,000 for a week's worth of services in late February to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's department, tender documents have revealed.

    25 June 2009 07:13 PM

  • Centrelink disaster plans cleared by auditor

    The Australian National Audit Office has given Centrelink's IT high marks in its attempts to implement business continuity management, with only limited recommendations on possible improvements.

    25 June 2009 06:40 PM

  • Optus CEO scoops $2.1m pay

    Optus chief Paul O'Sullivan received a total pay package of $2.1 million in the year to 31 March 2009, the company's annual report released today has revealed.

    25 June 2009 02:05 PM

  • NZ's Chorus partners with Visionstream

    Telecom New Zealand's network access business Chorus is bringing in Australian company Visionstream to carry out field force operations in Auckland and Northland.

    25 June 2009 10:35 AM

  • 200 IT jobs going into Vic schools

    The Victorian Premier John Brumby announced yesterday that the state will hire 200 computer technicians for its schools as the computers for the government's Digital Education Revolution make their way to students.

    24 June 2009 10:33 AM

  • NAB names core banking dream team

    National Australia Bank has appointed a new head and executive team for its Next Generation core banking systems overhaul program in preparation for the project's next phase.

    23 June 2009 04:48 PM

  • ACT wanted in on federal Microsoft deal

    Australian Capital Territory would have liked to have been in on the federal Microsoft volume sourcing contract, according to a general manager of the state's shared services organisation InTACT.

    23 June 2009 03:40 PM

  • WA Central Tafe picks Live@edu

    Central TAFE in Western Australia has decided to go with Microsoft's free hosted email system Live@edu for its 15,000 students and its experience with the email will determine whether other Western Australian TAFEs will also decide to go with the system.

    23 June 2009 07:00 AM

  • Govt unleashes web 2.0 taskforce

    The Federal Government today launched a taskforce to investigate web 2.0's ability to make government more transparent and increase community engagement.

    22 June 2009 02:33 PM

  • NAB flags Aviva IT integration project

    National Australia Bank's acquisition of the Australian operations of wealth management giant Aviva will see the integration of back-end information technology in the hope of achieving cost savings.

    22 June 2009 01:04 PM

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Blogs

  • David Braue Will Rudd's bush backhaul bonanza deliver?
    Rural areas will be welcoming the government's decision to put its money where its politicising is, funnelling $250m into a regional fibre upgrade to six rural centres. Remedying over a decade of near-neglect at the hands of telecoms privatisation, the investment could be the firmest step yet for Labor's NBN dream — but with inevitable political questions and a looming election, Rudd and Conroy need to deliver, and quickly, to preserve the NBN's credibility.
  • Array Doing for AV what VoIP did for telephony
    Sydney-based start-up Audinate is making traditional analog cabling obsolete in favour of TCP/IP-based networking technology. And it's doing a pretty good job so far, with its technology used by World Youth Day and the Sydney Opera House.
  • Array WiMax in Australia: Part two
    WiMax could be the standard that drives the next phase of mobile broadband, it provides an opportunity for players wanting to establish a pure IP network to carry voice and data effectively — but is this what operators want?
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