• Tasmania asks for help on NBN

    The Tasmanian Government has put out a call to the information and communications technology industry for suggestions on how to best use the National Broadband Network and Digital Education Revolution for the students of the state.

    16 November 2009 01:20 PM

  • Sensis denies database disaster

    Telstra subsidiary Sensis has denied the veracity of an anonymous tip published in Crikey today that claimed its new iGen platform was a complete failure.

    13 November 2009 04:56 PM

  • ABC to roll out new CMS platform

    SingTel subsidiary, NCS, has landed a new contract with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to provide a new web content management system for ABC Online.

    13 November 2009 05:34 PM

  • Vendors chosen for Qld exchange project

    The Queensland Government has picked the vendors to nurse it through its massive roll-out of Microsoft Exchange 2007 to 80,000 public servants.

    13 November 2009 04:07 PM

  • Berzins' blunders: Police ignored tender rules

    Victoria Police's IT division under disgraced chief information officer Valda Berzins had a "disregard for proper procurement and contract management", a new report has revealed, which saw contracts fail to go to tender while their dollar values ballooned beyond approved amounts.

    12 November 2009 09:43 PM

  • Paper-based drugs scheme gets IT revamp

    The Federal Department of Health and Ageing has gone to market for a supplier to update the IT systems which run the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) after years of putting up with paper-based and time-consuming processes.

    12 November 2009 02:29 PM

Would all those who believe that seizing assets 'for the good of the community' is an acceptable form of behaviour please post your home addresses. I have just come up with a brilliant way of helping Australia's homeless people.

From: When angry Telstra shareholders attack

Read it here, then discuss it in Talkback.

  • EDS employees maintain conditions

    Employees of HP Enterprise Services, formerly known as EDS, have mainly now moved onto new HP contracts with equivalent conditions, according to the integrator's most active union, the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia.

    12 November 2009 05:25 PM

  • Qantas to deploy faster check-in technology

    Qantas says it is aiming to halve check-in times for customers at CityFlyer ports with new technology to be rolled out across Australia.

    11 November 2009 02:54 PM

  • IBM finishes $22m Qld toll system

    IBM today said it had finished its deployment of a toll and traffic management system for Queensland's road authority.

    11 November 2009 12:23 PM

  • Local impact as Adobe cuts 680 jobs

    Adobe has announced overnight that it will cut 680 jobs, approximately 9 per cent of its global workforce.

    11 November 2009 11:26 AM

  • Data#3 wins NBN office IT roll-out

    Diversified ICT products and services group Data#3 has won a fistful of contracts to design, deploy and manage the National Broadband Network Company's corporate IT infrastructure.

    10 November 2009 04:08 PM

  • GNOME delays 3.0 release

    The release of the next major upgrade of the GNOME desktop, GNOME 3.0, has been pushed back to September 2010. GNOME 2.30 is still intended for a March 2010 release.

    10 November 2009 04:29 PM

  • Defence overhauls ICT spending

    The Department of Defence today released its 2009 ICT strategy paper, outlining how it intends to spend $940 million over four years, instead of $720 million over a decade, to deliver $1.9 billion in savings.

    10 November 2009 01:49 PM

  • Rickroll virus targets iPhones

    An Australian has released a virus for the Apple iPhone, ikee, which replaces the infected device's background picture with an image of Rick Astley.

    09 November 2009 11:28 AM

  • Tanner claims Gershon victory

    Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner today said the government had found an additional $430 million in projected savings from its annual IT spend, meaning it had satisfied the Gershon Review's target of shaving off $1 billion a year.

    06 November 2009 05:15 PM

  • The end of Kaz: Fujitsu kills brand name

    From Friday, Fujitsu's Kaz and Supply Chain brands would cease to exist, being relabelled as Fujitsu, the company said today.

    04 November 2009 05:03 PM

  • AAPT adopts Google Apps

    AAPT has decided to use Google Apps for its 1300 staff after deliberations it called more philosophical than technical.

    04 November 2009 12:15 PM

  • Professor issues proprietary e-health warning

    A health informatics professor from Sydney University today said Australia's e-health systems should be strictly open source rather than using proprietary software.

    03 November 2009 04:59 PM

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