The South Australian Government has locked in Dimension Data for a further three years under a managed network and security deal worth $36 million, with the government shaving off over $1 million a year from the value of the past contract.
Git-based online hosted service, GitHub, has chosen Sydney company Anchor to implement and manage its infrastructure.
Foster's Group has seen $21 million in benefits this year from an extensive IT transformation to simplify its disparate systems.
The telecommunications industry seems to be wreathed in euphoric mist after today's announcement which looks to lead to Telstra's separation, but there are still voices of caution to be heard.
Optus said that it and the industry would be keeping a sharp eye on any separation plans Telstra put forward to the government.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Next month the Senate Select Committee on the NBN will table its final report. It will reflect the views of 100 or so submitted documents and a series of public hearings.
In a massive "special edition" of our telco podcast Twisted Wire, we talk to virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry about the break-up of Telstra, including man of the moment, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
The team behind the Sydney-based maker of mobile games and applications B33hive has sold its business off and is starting again with a new Twitter-based service for television addicts.
Why do we insist on going into the office every day? The technology is there for us to work from home for part of the week.
There's a certain ridiculousness to Alcatel-Lucent's National Broadband Network video production that goes to the heart of an obvious worry that it will ultimately be left out when the cheques are signed.
Twitter coverage of the AFACT vs. iiNet trial is breathing new life into court reporting. Why don't we as a society take the next step and stream it all live to the internet, video and audio?
Google's recently launched web browser, Chrome, will have to overcome a number of major obstacles before it can break the business ubiquity of Internet Explorer and counter the rise of Firefox.
Hung-over this morning? So are thousands of other network engineers and systems administrators who attended the huge party at Cisco's annual Networkers conference in Brisbane last night. We show you the highlights ... *groan*.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, Samba author and recipient of the mantle for Australia's "smartest man in IT", tells how Samba was nearly named Salmonberry, and what the SMB 2 protocol can do.
Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks about the days when Microsoft was run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit.
With the normal TCP/IP setup it can take up to two hours for a dropped connection to terminate -- Andrew Tridgell explains how the Samba project faced this problem when creating clustered Samba.
Andrew Tridgell, the co-inventor of rsync, announced that the third version of the product is about to be released.
Welcome to the CIO Vision Series, where we have with us as our guest Graham Andrews of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Thank you for joining us today and congratulations on being 'highly commended' by the Australia CIO of the Year judging panel.
Microsoft has reworked the PC assessment tool in Windows Vista after fielding complaints from hardware makers -- but the changes may not be enough to completely quell concerns.
Underneath the sheen, what's Windows Vista made of? We take a detailed look at the recently delayed operating system.
Recent disputes over the authorship of Linux are missing an extremely obvious point. Has nobody noticed?
An ergonomics expert explains why IT professionals using multiple workstations could be at greater risk of developing Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)-type injuries.
Payphone manufacturer and operator TriTel today unveiled a new payphone that offers Internet access, e-mail, Web browsing and SMS messaging.
Telstra shareholders fear break up
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The Change Program changes its Agenda
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Microsoft's Tracey Fellows on Windows 7
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