• 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

  • Nokia N97 ships with Aussie apps

    During the launch of the N97, Nokia demonstrated some of the Aussie apps available for its flagship smartphone.

    01 July 2009 02:11 PM

  • Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5

    Firefox 3.5, the embodiment of Mozilla's attempt to "upgrade the web", is now available for Windows and Mac.

    01 July 2009 10:41 AM

I think DAFF are in for an rude and expensive shock. They have no idea what they will be in for when dealing with a tier 1 multinational.

From: Group 8 moves on post-Commander

Read it here, then discuss it in Talkback.

  • Insight wins Vic Govt Microsoft deal

    Corporate technology supplier Insight Enterprises has won a multi-million contract to sell Microsoft software to the whole of the Victorian Government.

    30 June 2009 06:08 PM

  • TAFE SA latest for cloud email

    South Australia's network of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) colleges has revealed itself as the latest education institution to plan a move to hosted email solution for staff and students.

    30 June 2009 01:21 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

  • Sydney Water dumps GroupWise

    Sydney Water has decided to migrate its email platform from Novell's GroupWise to Microsoft Outlook/Exchange and is looking for a contractor to help implement the change.

    29 June 2009 12:36 PM

  • 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

  • Scandinavian e-health trip for ACT minister

    ACT Health Minister Katy Gallagher has decided to travel to Denmark and Norway in August to learn about the countries' e-health systems.

    26 June 2009 12:10 PM

  • Apple to sell unlocked iPhone 3GS

    Apple Australia today confirmed it was directly selling unlocked iPhone 3GS devices in both the 16GB and 32GB models from its own outlets.

    26 June 2009 11:30 AM

  • Microsoft hikes Win7 prices for Australia

    Australian buyers of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system will pay between AU$50 and AU$150 more in real terms than US residents for the software, the company revealed this morning.

    26 June 2009 11:04 AM

  • 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

  • DIAC to unleash release this weekend

    The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) is going ahead with release nine of its mammoth Systems for People project this weekend, an effort which had its content rejigged because of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's detention policy.

    26 June 2009 12:02 PM

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