Telstra is celebrating a victory on two fronts after winning a $162 million contract with the Department of Defence while also denying its rivals a slice of the action, but the telco should consider itself lucky to be part of the natural ebb and flow between multi-sourcing and single-sourcing, according to one analyst.
Best known as a Telstra reseller, Crazy Johns is moving to compete with the telco by running as its own mobile operator financed by the sale of part of the business.
It's important to acknowledge Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo's successes as well as his failures.
Telstra has finished putting together its new dedicated small and medium business (SMB) division, and will make the unit's presence felt with several new product offerings over the next few months.
The telco says new top dog Solomon Trujillo will choose -- in conjunction with its board -- which one of his current directorships at Pepsi, Target, EDS and newspaper chain Gannett he will retain.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
Bill Murray's weeks spent in the purgatory of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania -- depicted in the amusing movie Groundhog Day -- have become a cultural sounding point, mentioned in passing to describe a situation where someone is stuck in the same painful, unresolvable situation day after day.
If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.
Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.
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With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
Working out an IT governance scheme when you have 600,000 users in place is a challenge, but stricter project management has been so successful for the Department of Education in Victoria that the government agency is now adopting the same methodology even for non-IT projects.
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