Optus has won Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's five-year, $500 million managed telecommunications and network overhaul contract.
Telstra and Optus should be forced to separate their retail and wholesale operations so that smaller players like Gen-i could compete on an equal footing for corporate work, the Telecom New Zealand subsidiary said last week.
The nation's number two telco this morning said it had won a $143 million deal with its existing customer, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship, to implement a contact centre and 7,000-seat Voice over IP solution.
British telco BT this week revealed plans to let go of 10,000 workers by the end of March 2009.
The pre-beta version of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system released to developers at the Professional Developer Conference has already made it onto prominent BitTorrent sites, where thousands of enthusiasts around the world are currently downloading it.
Everything from cleaning to IT development work is outsourced by governments these days, but should security clearance processes, which dictate what access a person has to government information systems, be included in that bundle?
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At its Winning Edge event in Beijing, HP took the wraps off several new printers including large-format Designjets, a new document scanner and it's latest and greatest, Edgeline, an inkjet designed to replace high-volume office photocopiers.
Microsoft is outsourcing some of the work related to its next-generation operating system to India, according to a labour group.
Computing instructor Matt Basham's suggestions for improving Cisco Systems' official training manuals fell on deaf ears for years. But he appears to have the networking giant's attention now.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies last week announced an investment of up to US$500 million in a new hard-drive facility in China.
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Hewlett-Packard has unveiled two Designjet printers aimed at the technical design market, and a device for high-speed document scanning.
This week, Apple chief Steve Jobs unveiled the next generation of Mac OS X, called Tiger, and took the wraps off a couple of (really) big-screen LCDs.
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