Custom to finally deliver SmartGate

Custom to finally deliver SmartGate After seven years testing border control biometrics, Australian Customs Service says every Australian international airport will be equipped with SmartGate by June 2009.

  • Ericsson's Zikou to retire

    Network hardware supplier Ericsson has revealed its Australia and New Zealand chief Bill Zikou will retire after just over two years in the role.

    10 October 2008 08:50 PM

  • HP/EDS preps for Aussie restructure

    Hewlett-Packard and EDS are expected to shortly detail which executives will lead their now combined Australian operation following HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant over the past several months.

    10 October 2008 03:13 PM

  • HP unticks an Emerson box

    Hewlett-Packard has notified the nation's financial regulator that EDS Australia managing director Neil Emerson and several of his colleagues are no longer — on paper — technically leading the IT outsourcer's local operations.

    10 October 2008 03:01 PM

  • Linux 'teething problems' affect netbook returns

    The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Linux vendor Canonical.

    10 October 2008 07:40 AM

Baltimore is 238.5 square kilometers with a population of 637,455 or a density of 3,039 people per square km. How can this be compared to the Opel bid?

From: US shows what OPEL could have been

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  • New Apple laptops to arrive next week

    Apple is expected to unveil updates to its laptop line next week with the official confirmation issued overnight that it was planning a press event in the US.

    10 October 2008 07:12 AM

  • Unisys clings to BankWest by a thread

    Unisys West, the Unisys-controlled IT outsourcing joint venture with BankWest, hangs on to its old customer by a thread as the two work towards a final date for complete separation.

    10 October 2008 12:03 PM

  • BlackBerry Storms the touchscreen market

    Research in Motion has officially introduced the first touchscreen BlackBerry to the world: the RIM BlackBerry Storm.

    09 October 2008 07:50 AM

  • Australian ICT industry worth $123 billion

    Australia's ICT industry for the year to 30 June 2007 made $123 billion and employed just under 300,000 people, paying $21 billion in wages, according to numbers released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

    08 October 2008 05:38 PM

  • CBA, BankWest tie IT knot in 2011

    BankWest's existing technology platform would continue to underpin its operations until the Commonwealth Bank has fully moved across to its new core banking system in 2011, the bigger bank revealed today as it detailed its takeover plans.

    08 October 2008 04:19 PM

  • IT glitch fingered in Qantas plunge

    Air safety investigators today said there was an "irregularity" in the onboard computer equipment of a Qantas plane involved in a mid-air incident over Western Australia.

    08 October 2008 02:04 PM

  • AMD splits off manufacturing arm

    AMD overnight announced plans to split off its manufacturing operations through a finance deal with a firm from the United Arab Emirates, which will leave AMD with total control of only its design wing.

    08 October 2008 07:06 AM

  • NSW segregates BusinessLink, ServiceFirst

    The New South Wales State Government has no plans to consolidate its existing shared services agency BusinessLink with the new division, ServiceFirst, which the Government quietly set up over the past few months to provide similar services to different agencies.

    09 October 2008 11:25 AM

  • ASIC hires IT counter-surveillance squad

    Financial markets regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has started looking for an external firm to conduct counter-surveillance activities across its information and communications technology systems.

    07 October 2008 04:23 PM

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