The budget for the Change Program has again been bumped up as the Australian Taxation Office says it needs $105 million to finish the project over the next two years on top of the $749 million it has already spent.
IBM has confirmed it will raise Australian prices on a number of its products by 3 per cent effective from 1 January 2010, in response to what Big Blue described as "changing economic conditions and cost structures".
The new ad-supported, limited feature version of Office will come preloaded on certain new PCs. The replacement for Microsoft Works is one of several new ways Microsoft is trying to create new customers for its productivity suite.
Online auction giant eBay announced Tuesday it has agreed to sell 65 per cent of its stake in Skype to a group of investors in a deal that values the web communications service at US$2.75 billion.
Western Australia is transitioning its IT service providers to a new procurement framework so that the old framework can be decommissioned by the end of the year.
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Assets of the Australian MPEG-21 video compression technology company Enikos are up for sale, with investors unwilling to fund its further development.
Last year I opined that, even if Telstra did launch Apple's iPhone 3G, conflicting goals meant it couldn't afford to seriously back the product. This year, Telstra proved me right, and the reason is simple: Australia's biggest telco just wants to be a Mac.
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The proposed buyout of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia is an absolute travesty for Australia's telecommunications industry and will be overwhelmingly negative for customers, Pipe Networks staff, shareholders and the industry as a whole.
There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.
Australia needs to do more to de-couple itself from an over-reliance on the boom or bust impacts that the US ICT Industry brings to Australia's own ICT industry.
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Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).
The Brother MFC-990CW is a speedy, fully capable all-in-one device that earns our recommendation for an individual or a family that will make use of its touchscreen and telephone/answering machine.
The T400s is the lightest 14-inch ThinkPad yet from Lenovo just be ready to pay for the convenience.
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