Australian and New Zealand chief information officers (CIOs) expect IT budgets to increase by 3.6 percent in 2005, higher than last year's 1.2 percent and well above the 2005 global average of 2.5 percent, according to Gartner.
A third of IT projects carried out in the private sector runs between 10 and 20 percent over the original budget, according to a CIO survey.
Australia's ICT industry for the year to 30 June 2007 made $123 billion and employed just under 300,000 people, paying $21 billion in wages, according to numbers released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
A UK government-sponsored security survey reports that security breaches have fallen by a third in the past two years but spending on security has increased significantly.
The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) will not be publishing its annual e-crimes survey this year because the federal government has given funding to the Australian Institute of Criminology instead.
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Vendor surveys coincidentally always seem to bring up results that say "you need to buy our product".
A survey of chief information officers has found that while IT departments are investing in new software, they are wary of CRM packages.
Networking giant Cisco Systems' new ventures in the storage market have piqued the interest of IT buyers, but the company may have to "earn its stripes," according to a new survey.
Information technology spending has stabilised at the start of 2003, but talk of general improvement for the rest of the year is premature, according to a new survey.
IT budgets will increase a mere 2.7 percent over the next six to 12 months, according to a recent survey of CIOs and other IT purchasing executives.
Although many companies spent less on technology this year than originally budgeted, spending could increase modestly next year, according to a new survey from Morgan Stanley.
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A survey sent to registered Xbox owners from a partner of the software giant is testing the interest in connecting the console to other home entertainment files.
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