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• EDS employees maintain conditions

  Employees of HP Enterprise Services, formerly known as EDS, have mainly now moved onto new HP contracts with equivalent conditions, according to the integrator's most active union, the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia.

• ATO's $879m 'worst-case scenario'

  Second Commissioner of Taxation David Butler today said that the increased $879 million budget for the Australian Taxation Office's Change Program quoted in an audit report released yesterday was a worst-case scenario.

• Australian EDS staff face new contracts

  EDS Australia workers have claimed that the company plans to ask them to sign a new employment agreement following the company's acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. But, terms on maintaining conditions and pay remain uncertain.

• Policy forced ATO's EDS desktop hand

  Recently, changing federal government policy was a factor in the Australian Taxation Office's decision to extend its end user and centralised computing contracts with incumbent supplier EDS, the agency's CIO Bill Gibson has revealed.

• EDS scores $604m ATO extension

  The Australian Taxation Office has decided to extend its contracts with EDS for end computing and centralised computing services over a further two years.

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  Give Tax a break for a Change

  Considering the circumstances the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) Change Program has been operating in over the last few years, it really hasn't been going too badly.

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  Fowl play foiled, Telstra's fairy tale is over

  Like many, I expected Telstra's dismissal was inevitable, given that it had openly flouted the NBN's guidelines and attempted to bend the process to its own wishes. But who would have expected it so soon?

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  Unwired and The Big Sleep

  Unwired was apparently banking today that any announcement to the Australian Stock Exchange involving Google would boost the carrier's stock price.

Features and Case Studies (20)

• Changing of the guard: National Australia Bank

  Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the National Australia Bank's technology operation in the second of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

• Will virtualisation create a mainframe renaissance?

  The current buzz around virtualisation may sound familiar to anyone with experience of high-end computing's origins " so what makes today's scenario so different?

• Lighting the murky depths of multicore pricing

  Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.

• Change of tactics in war on viruses

  Could quarantining e-mails be a better way of dealing with viruses than the traditional approach used by most antivirus companies?

• FAQ: How the iTunes Music Store works

  With the Australian debut of Apple's iTunes Music Store today, we answer the questions of iPod owners around the country.

Reviews (6)

• The Age of Automation

  The '60s and '70s were the decades of the mainframe. The '80s made up the decade of client-server computing. The '90s were the Internet years. Now we're entering the decade of the electronic butler.

• Intel hammering out robot standards

  Intel is developing standards for building inexpensive robots that eventually could automatically inspect industrial equipment or take aerial photographs.

• Linux or Windows? You decide

  Dueling analyst firms don't settle the hottest OS issue around, but your company will cast its vote by choosing one of these network operating systems.

• Buying a used digital camera

  You've been thinking about buying a digital camera for some time now, but even though prices have dropped considerably, they're still too high for your budget. Well, it's time to do what untold consumers have been doing for millennia: haggle. People have done it over everything from camels and crown jewels to pickup trucks and boom boxes. In short, buy it used.

• Search Engines

  From the capital of Tugo to a Hang Seng IPO, it's on the Web -- if you can only find it. PC Magazine reviews 20 search engines that make the hunt easier.

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