Medicare has awarded IBM a one-year, $70 million extension to its comprehensive technology outsourcing contract after announcing earlier this year that it would review all its information and communications contracts.
IBM has released a way to get Lotus Notes email on your iPhone that stops short of full support, but gets the job done.
US technology giants have taken a beating on the stock exchange this week as the country's House of Representatives failed to pass a bailout plan for the financial sector.
Retail giant Myer has flagged plans to centralise its back-office systems further in what it today described as a "store of the future" initiative.
The chance of industrial action at IBM's Baulkham Hills, Sydney facility has dropped dramatically after a workers' meeting last night broadly accepted the direction that union negotiations with Big Blue had taken.
Unionised workers at IBM's Baulkham Hills facility in Sydney will vote on the company's latest employment offer tonight, according to the Australian Services Union.
Cisco Systems late last week in the US said it would bolster its unified communications and collaboration portfolio through purchasing instant messaging company Jabber.
Negotiations between IBM and workers at the company's Sydney facility at Baulkham Hills were ongoing, a representative from the Australian Services Union said today.
Workers at IBM's Baulkham Hills, Sydney facility were not happy with the offer IBM presented them yesterday, and have sent representatives back to negotiate, according to the Australian Services Union (ASU).
One of IBM's largest Australian customer organisations has chided the technology giant for a declining level of communication with external user groups.
Established in 1996, alphaWorks is a web community for developers to preview and collaborate on emerging technology from IBM's research labs and turn them into commercial products. The IT giant claims much of alphaWorks's activity is aimed at developing new software types and standards -- particularly around open source principles.
Government continues to shun colossal outsourcing contracts in favour of selective sourcing, while businesses display growing confidence in software-as-a-service -- however sustained skills shortages have plagued deployments, sparking interest in offshore options.
Colonel John Hayes, chief information officer of the US Air Force Reserve command talks about tapping into the technology expertise of its recruits for the development of innovative ideas, like the military's new 'Emergency Notification' system.
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IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.
Overnight IBM announced it would this week release software, dubbed iNotes Ultralite, that allows people to access their Lotus Notes/Domino collaboration suite on Apple's iPhone. We take you on a brief tour.
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