The Department of Defence today released its 2009 ICT strategy paper, outlining how it intends to spend $940 million over four years, instead of $720 million over a decade, to deliver $1.9 billion in savings.
Leighton Contractors has extended a contract with HP for managed print services after increasing the scope of its original contract earlier this year.
Home loan company, Mortgage Choice, has ditched Lotus Notes Domino for its lenders messaging needs in favour of Google's Enterprise Apps suite but it's keeping Microsoft Office as the corporate standard.
Suncorp won an award based on a working system that was built by university interns who worked gratis for three to six months, the tier two banking giant's chief information officer Jeff Smith revealed last week.
Logistics giant Brambles has announced it is appointing Jim Infinger to the newly created position of chief information officer.
With its new taskforce, the government has got straight back on the web 2.0 horse after taking a nasty fall last year with Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Finance Minister Lindsey Tanner's blogging trial, but how long will it stay on?
As soon as one government decides to do a new project it's a good bet that others will follow suit, in the ultimate fashion obsession.
This week's instalment of Patch Monday asks the question: "Why did Qantas turf its chief information officer Jamila Gordon?"
Who exactly is new Westpac IT executive Sarv Girn, who has newly been poached from Commonwealth Bank of Australia? Is he just a point man for the IT integration of St George, or is he "McKinnon's magician", the boy genius who will lead the bank to its IT nirvana?
US networking giant Cisco Systems has invested an unknown amount into Melbourne-based Majitek, an Australian firm primarily created by the founding members of Sausage Software.
Australia's IT services market has come through its relatively mild financial crisis relatively unscathed, and certainly in much better shape than it could have ever anticipated.
Ray Brown stepped in two weeks ago as the latest chief information officer for Queensland Health, hoping to bring some stability to a division that has seen a number of faces move through the head technology spot in quick succession.
Acting Queensland Health CIO Ray Brown has been appointed to permanently fill the chief information officer role.
Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's technology operation in the third of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.
What will the impact of NSW Premier Nathan Rees' ambitious agency consolidation plans be on the state's public sector ICT workers and infrastructure?
Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom, talks about how focusing on the growth of the company acts as a great incentive for employees to innovatively come up with ideas and create new business cases around those ideas.
Optus CIO Lawrie Turner talks about the changing nature of the modern CIO role.
Optus CIO Lawrie Turner talks about the telco's Reitz program, an initiative to revamp its billing systems.
Optus CIO Lawrie Turner talks about the telco's attitude towards outsourcing.
Optus CIO Lawrie Turner talks about the size of Optus' operation.
All William Tsang wanted from the midnight Windows Vista launch was a free Web cam. Instead, he walked away with the main draw -- a copy of Vista Ultimate, autographed, rock star-style, by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.
One of Microsoft Word's document-protection features has been cracked. But Microsoft hasn't spread the word about it. Here's how to know when your files are vulnerable -- and how to protect them for real.
Only about 35 percent of large businesses plan to move up to the latest version of Microsoft's Office software next year, according to a new survey of chief information officers.
COMMENTARY--Microsoft's religion is one where products are good and services are a sin. But a big server product launch could alienate the very souls it wants to convert.
With the 'Mad Hatter' project, a beefed-up form of the old thin-client idea, Sun will be delivering Linux-based desktop machines that promise to undercut Windows.
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