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The Western Australian Government is currently considering forming new chief information officer and chief technology officer roles to guide the government through service modernisation.
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NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (DADHC) has given itself the mission to make its core Siebel system more user-friendly for its staff.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia's billion-dollar telecommunications deal recently inked with Telstra contains provisions allowing the bank to guard itself against any effects of regulatory separation in the telco's operations, the bank revealed this week.
This week the Australian online banking system was tested by an agent of KAOS Kevin Rudd and his $10 billion dollar fiscal package that, as Agent 86 would say, "missed it by that much" on knocking out the banking system.
On Thursday afternoon I witnessed about 30 CIOs from various companies being forced to do manual labour while getting shouted at and sprayed with sea water. I'd be surprised if any went home without at least a few bruises -- I know I have a few injuries from the day.
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Macs are banned from many government departments because there aren't any 'approved' applications to encrypt them. So why doesn't Apple CEO Steve Jobs do something about it?
How on earth can organisations justify paying their IT executives millions of dollars in bonuses, or in the case of the public sector, handing out salaries of half a million dollars?
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?
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.
Get an insider's look at Commonwealth Bank of Australia's technology operation with chief information officer Michael Harte in the first of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.
Dell's president, Asia Pacific South, Paul-Henri Ferrand says the company's direct model is working well, but customers have forced it to explore channels to meet demand. While it has developed channels in Asia, Australia will have to wait Dell's not rushing into channels for the sake of it.
Why do it vendors insist on creating catchy phrases to sum up their products? Is it to further confuse us, or are they really trying to help?
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With chip makers chomping at the bit to update systems to create a 64-bit world, CIOs need to ask the tough question, "why?" This article provides compelling arguments for the switch.
These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.
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