Medicare has decided to pay IBM $62.9 million for the extension of an information technology services and support contract while its parent agency, Human Services, reviews its technology strategy.
The Tasmanian Government has put out a call to the information and communications technology industry for suggestions on how to best use the National Broadband Network and Digital Education Revolution for the students of the state.
Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner today said the government had found an additional $430 million in projected savings from its annual IT spend, meaning it had satisfied the Gershon Review's target of shaving off $1 billion a year.
The Federal Government yesterday invited bids for its $100 million smart grid pilot, Smart City, which the government hopes will inform it of the costs and benefits of the technology.
Victorian energy company SP AusNet announced yesterday that it had chosen Motorola to build a WiMax network to connect the smart meters it is rolling out to 680,000 customers.
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Alcatel-Lucent's optical network terminal (ONT) equipment was not considered suitable for an open access fibre deployment similar to the future NBN roll-out at a greenfield estate in Victoria, according to the project's builder.
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A year from taking on perhaps the toughest IT job in the country, Defence chief information officer Greg Farr is staring down the barrel of a massive ICT reform agenda for 2009 that will reveal whether Defence got the "expert CIO" they needed.
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Lindows.com, which makes a consumer-oriented version of the Linux operating system, has introduced an application that allows computers running the Lindows OS to play commercial DVDs.
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