Details of a US inquiry into the accounting practices of software vendor Computer Associates are yet to be revealed, but company officials are not expecting it to extend to Australian operations.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will soon have greater powers to detect anti-competitive behaviour from Telstra under a draft direction issued by the Minister for Communications.
Sanjay Kumar, who recently resigned from the top posts at Computer Associates International, said Friday in the US he is leaving the company completely as investigations continue into its accounting practices.
The company formerly known as WorldCom took another step toward corporate normalcy with the filing of a US$500 million settlement proposal hammered out with the feds.
Australian micro-businesses are lagging behind when it comes to computerising their financial records new research has revealed.
Now that Minister Stephen Conroy has played his hand regarding Telstra's separation, the hard part begins.
As Rudd and Conroy railroad the NBN into reality, the Liberals are trying to inject some due process into the whole thing by holding Labor accountable for its decisions. However, with the future of Australian telecoms on the line and no real viable alternative, is it just a bit late for accountability?
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?
With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.
Much has been made of Telstra's decision to finally stop holding Australia to ransom, and to actually turn on the ADSL2+ equipment it has installed in what is apparently over 900 of its exchanges around the country.
There is currently a great deal of gloom and doom about the state of the Australian ICT sector. Here's 10 ideas for moving ahead.
The Australian Taxation Office has issued a revised timetable for its $724 million Change Agenda IT refresh, which has recently been pushed back by 18 months.
The Australian Taxation's Change Program (which is best suited perhaps for simple formulaic tax collections, not complex audit, analysis and interpretation work) may collapse under its own dead weight.
Canberra apparently has two plagues: kangaroos and IT contractors. After years fattening up on Canberra's fields, they've been marked by the government for a major cull. But is the latter group still the problem they once were?
Australian Department of Defence CIO Greg Farr spoke to ZDNet.com.au about how the organisation's networks are kept secure and why virtualisation and green issues are high on the agenda.
MPC Computers has unveiled an all-in-one desktop based on a special project it did for the US government.
McAfee Internet Security 2009 does a reasonable job, but it also leaves room for improvement.
South Korean government officials are warning consumers that Internet and e-commerce sites in that country may lack full compatibility with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, which will become available to consumers next week.
Given the "lean and mean" structure of most small companies it is a bit much to expect them to have in-depth accounting knowledge or be able to hire a dedicated accountant. The answer: SOHO accounting packages.
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