James Packer has indicated he wants to continue the fight over the collapse of One.Tel, maintaining he was "profoundly misled" about the financial position of the company.
The Queensland Government Chief Procurement Office reached a preliminary agreement this week with the state's IT contracting industry on a new model to achieve the government's saving aims, according to the Australian Information Industry Association.
Despite icing a 2002 plan to pursue Telstra's structural separation due to concerns Labor had for its private shareholders, Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner today said its current position was no different.
Thomson Reuters Australia's purchase of Ernst & Young's tax compliance software business, Ernst & Young Information Systems, has been opposed by the competition regulator.
The Australian Competition Tribunal's (ACT) decision to wind back regulated access to Telstra's wholesale network has outraged the telecommunications sector.
It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.
In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Has Australia entered a new era of mature engagement when setting requirements for outsourcing deals? Should Australian banks create regional IT hubs rather than offshore? And what could have happened to drain Adelaide's Torrens River weir? All these questions and more are answered in Patch Monday.
The government dumped its well-intentioned bidders and spent the day awash in adulation from an industry that suddenly felt all its Christmases had come at once. But isn't this the same government that, two weeks ago, was warning it had to ditch key election promises for lack of funding?
A new Goldman Sachs report reinforces the market's conclusion that, whatever the National Broadband Network looks like, it is going to have to be taxpayer-funded and the cheques will be massive.
We can now conclude that Telstra went backwards during the Trujillo era, and that the board's decision in June 2005 to sack Ziggy Switkowski and install a team of expensive Americans to run the company was a mistake.
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is considering establishing an Australian datacentre as it continues efforts to upgrade its infrastructure reliability across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's successor will need to make conciliatory gestures towards the government and reconsider the company's strategy to remain relevant, analysts have concluded in the wake of this morning's announcement that Trujillo will depart the company on June 30.
Will Suncorp chief information officer Jeff Smith stick around if the bank's rapid decline in value due to the credit crisis leads to a fire sale of several of its key divisions?
Business users looking for a competent, no-nonsense smartphone will like the E72 for its breadth of features and stylish design.
Windows Vista's less than stellar reputation and poor uptake are due in part to the heavy demands it makes on system hardware. But how does Windows 7 perform?
The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.
If you've got a compelling business reason to own a push-to-talk phone, then the KX440 was built for you. If you're after a flashier phone, it definitely isn't.
Alarmist advice and unbacked claims by security software vendor Symantec has the Macintosh community up in arms.
Google Chrome OS demonstration
Vice President of Product Marketing Sundar Pichai gives a virtual tour of Google's new operating system, Chrom… Watch it now
Malcolm Turnbull's ghost twitterer
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Surf the Net like it's 1991 with Gopher
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