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  • Telstra's CIO hangs up

    Telstra chief information officer Jeff Smith is to depart the telecommunications heavyweight, effective 31 March.

  • Westpac hires ex-Telstra CIO

    Former Telstra chief information officer (CIO) Vish Padmanabhan, who walked out on the carrier after his position was usurped last year, has quietly worked his way into the finance sector.

  • Telstra's deputy CIO leaves

    Telstra's marginalised deputy chief information officer, Vish Padmanabhan, will leave the company at the end of August, the telco confirmed.

  • Telstra CIO quits after just 10 months

    Fiona Balfour, who joined Telstra as CIO last April, has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Previously, she spent 14 years at Qantas.

  • Ex-Telstra CIO Smith nabs Suncorp role

    Former Telstra CIO Jeff Smith has been appointed group executive, Information Technology, of the new financial giant created by the multi-billion dollar merger of insurers Suncorp and Promina.

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  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Suncorp's telephone troubles

    The multi-billion dollar merger of local insurers Suncorp and Promina has raised some interest (to put it mildly) within the Australian community, as such things are wont to do.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    An illuminating chat

    Recently I came across probably the most engaging speaker I've heard on the issues facing technology executives.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Telstra helps phishers PWN its customers

    Following a rash of Telstra customers reporting phishing attacks, the telco has issued advice on how to discern the real Telstra from fake ones -- but the advice it gives is more likely to help phishers than its customers.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Playing favourites

    Many CIOs talk of the "'closeness" of their relationship with their key strategic vendors. Every so often though we get an insight into which IT departments are truly valued by the big boys.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    "Randy" Lynch vibrates at CeBIT

    I spent enough time at CeBIT last week to know the telecommunications industry was well represented ... but not always without controversy.

Features and Case Studies (15)

  • How corporate Australia battles information overload

    We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.

  • Video: Suncorp CIO Jeff Smith

    With a star-studded employment history including a stint as the chief information officer of Telstra, Jeff Smith is one of Australia's top-flight technology executives.

  • Jus' got the banking IT blues

    Will Suncorp chief information officer Jeff Smith stick around if the bank's rapid decline in value due to the credit crisis lead to a fire sale of several of its key divisions?

  • Qantas' flight to change

    Qantas chief information officer Fiona Balfour is no sit-on-her-hands time-server.

  • Survey: Tech execs retrenching

    IT, telecommunications and media companies are bracing for further industry fallout and doing intense soul-searching more than two years into the tech bust, according to a study.

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