The Australian Tax Office is preparing to put the last and largest of its IT outsourcing contracts centralised computing up for grabs, worth around AU$160 million per year. This is EDS's last chance to retain work with the ATO and possibly its first bid since its proposed acquisition by HP.
Peoplebank Australia Ltd has set its sights on becoming Australia's largest information technology recruiter with the acquisition of fellow recruiter Ambit for AU$100 million.
BEA Systems said on Thursday that it's willing to sit at the negotiating table with any potential buyers -- if they're open to a price of US$21 a share to start acquisition talks.
WiMax-friendly ISP Unwired has sent a letter to shareholders advising they accept broadcaster Seven's up to AU$127 million takeover bid for the company.
A small group of investors in Unwired are calling on their peers to reject the AU$127 million takeover offer made by Seven, claiming that the offer undervalues the potential that WiMax spectrum offers.
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
On the heels of Microsoft’s purchase of the midmarket accounting systems leader, Great Plains, it announced its intention to acquire Navision. How will this affect consultants and the midmarket ERP landscape?
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The idea that attacks on computer systems could provide an alternative method of spreading terror and disruption has been a concern for governments since IT systems began to proliferate.
Company president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer is being groomed to succeed Hector Ruiz, but first he must prove that last year's engineering mistakes were an aberration.
Indian tech giant Wipro's chairman and managing director, Azim Premji, on the future of the company and where the Indian outsourcing market will go next.
So much for Netscape 8.0. That's one upshot of Thursday's settlement between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, according to industry analysts.
Antivirus software makers aim to protect users against Internet threats, but now have to face a new threat of their own: Microsoft.
Intrusion detection appears to have hit the bottom of its hype cycle with a particularly loud thud. Is there value beyond the hot air, and how can you make it work productively?
Next month, Intel will bring its hyperthreading technology to desktops, another advance in the chip world that can be traced to Digital Equipment Corp.
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