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• IBM Australia hit $4bn in 2008

  Enterprise technology giant IBM must be thanking Australia a billion or more correctly four, after Big Blue's local office pulled in more than $4 billion in revenues for the first time in the 2008 calendar year.

• Qantas considers IBM hand-off

  Australia's largest airline, Qantas, today confirmed it was considering outsourcing delivery of IT projects to IBM as cost-cutting initiatives progress.

• NAB suspends Satyam work

  National Australia Bank has decided to suspend future work with Indian outsourcer Satyam.

• ATO details ICT supplier payments

  In complying with a Senate Order, the Australian Taxation Office has released a detailed list of current contracts dominated by technology deals made over the past decade.

• Oakton cut 90 in six months

  Australian IT services firm Oakton pared its total headcount back by a net total of 90 staff over the last six months of 2008, the company revealed today.

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  Even tougher times ahead for Rakon?

  GPS component manufacturer Rakon announced a big drop in earnings this week. Can it recover though, even if the recession ends?

Features and Case Studies (18)

• 10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

  As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.

• The right and wrong predictions of 2007

  In 2007 leading industry watchers speculated on the trends affecting the market, and while some proved right, others proved otherwise. Discovers how expert predictions fared on Vista, low-cost laptops and outsourcing.

• IT firms expand from PCs to payroll

  IT services firms are expanding beyond their traditional role as overseers of networks, PCs and computer help desks, into "back office" areas such as accounting and human resources.

• Pipe Networks sell-out an absolute travesty

  The proposed buyout of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia is an absolute travesty for Australia's telecommunications industry and will be overwhelmingly negative for customers, Pipe Networks staff, shareholders and the industry as a whole.

• Changing of the guard: National Australia Bank

  Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the National Australia Bank's technology operation in the second of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

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• Strong growth ahead for semiconductor industry: IDC

  The semiconductor market will grow at 18 percent in 2004, according to International Data Corp. The growth will be driven by stronger than expected mobile phone and PC shipments.

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