Federal welfare agency Centrelink and research organisation CSIRO will be working together on better IT to deliver services to the agency's clients.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has topped up its core banking war chest with a further $150 million aimed at bulking up analytical, risk and financial management systems, as well as extending its new platform to subsidiaries.
IBM will pay US$1.2 billion in cash for SPSS, a company with technology that will bolster Big Blue's business analytics line-up.
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Sceptical that Australians are targeted by cybercrime? Late last year the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) was asked to repatriate hundreds of Commonwealth Bank customer credentials which had been stolen via the ZeuS trojan.
Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.
The US sub-prime mortgage lending crisis could lead to economic losses totaling between US$150bn and US$400bn, according to The Wall Street Journal. While this dwarfs the effect of previous disasters such as the dot com bust, analysts remain optimistic that its effect on IT budgets will be flat, rather than disastrous.
At Apple's official launch of the iPhone software development kit, Chuck Dietrich, Salesforce.com vice president of mobile, demos new business software on the device. The tools let sales representatives manage applications such as analytics and business intelligence tools on the go. The Apple event took place at company headquarters in California.
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