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  • VHA cuts 320, releases $1bn tender

    Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has cut 320 staff under the first phase of its merger, with the mobile telco now looking to streamline its network management.

  • 400 jobs go in VHA deal cancellation

    Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has cut its ties with an outsourced call centre, which has left around 400 Melbourne staff jobless.

  • VHA shifts Sydney finance dept north

    VHA will move its Sydney-based finance roles to its Brisbane centre, the mobile telco revealed today as its merger plans begin to take shape.

  • VHA picks Tassie for call centre HQ

    Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett today announced a coup over the Queensland Government in striking a deal with mobile telco VHA to house its national call centre in the state from June 2010.

  • Trujillo defends Siebel project

    Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo defended the progress of the company's IT transformation program despite long call-centre hold times and reports of frustrated employees.

Features and Case Studies (22)

  • India 2.0: Yahoo sees development potential

    In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.

  • CIO View: It's good to talk-over-IP

    Voice over IP, or VoIP as it's affectionately known, offers a great deal more flexibility than a classical phone system. Despite VoIP's advantages, IT managers shouldn't underestimate the cost or complexity of setting up such a system.

  • CIO View: CIOs need to be part of business strategy

    The old model of keeping the IT strategy and the business strategy separate is officially dead. Today's best CIOs recommend integrating IT strategies as closely as possible with business strategies in order to create real value.

  • Turning telesales success from art to a science

    Selling products over the phone is never easy, but one Japanese outsourcer has used mathematics to triple sell-through rates.

  • Dell: Malaysia to support Australia, others

    Enterprise technology users may still be getting used to Indian accents for many of their support queries, but PC giant Dell believes many of its customers would be better served by Malaysia.

Videos (2)

  • CIO View: CIOs need to be part of business strategy

    Successful CIOs are able to create business strategies that require technology, which means using IT to create value. In this clip, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year Cesare Tizi explains how CIOs should present their plans to the business and how to measure their success.

  • CIO View: It's good to talk-over-IP

    Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007, likes VoIP because it saves money but he also loves the flexibility it offers. However, Tizi warns admins not to undestimate the problems setting it up.

Reviews (2)

  • Fonality Trixbox (Base Appliance)

    Fonality's trixbox is an ISDN and traditional POTS-style telephony system based on the open source Asterisk software, and comes with dedicated hardware eliminating compatibility issues. We found trixbox to be competitively priced and easy to set up.

  • Thin, but no flakes: 4 thin-clients reviewed

    Last month we looked at thin-client terminals. This month RMIT examines the back end for thin-client setups.

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