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.
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.
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.
The Australian Taxation Office has decided to extend its contracts with EDS for end computing and centralised computing services over a further two years.
The Australian Taxation Office has chosen Optus over Dimension Data for its managed network services contract, which the agency has said is worth around $60.5 million a year.
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.
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?
Unwired was apparently banking today that any announcement to the Australian Stock Exchange involving Google would boost the carrier's stock price.
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.
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With the Australian debut of Apple's iTunes Music Store today, we answer the questions of iPod owners around the country.
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Intel is developing standards for building inexpensive robots that eventually could automatically inspect industrial equipment or take aerial photographs.
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