The federal government plans to legislate after 1 July to extend the provisions of the Electoral Act to the Internet in an effort to clamp down on Web sites which decline to identify an individual who takes responsibility for election coverage.
The Commonwealth Bank plans to end a silo-based approach to IT that has seen the financial services giant's businesses act as up to six different customers when procuring products and services, chief executive Ralph Norris said.
The federal government has moved to set minimum standards across its agencies for checking employees or contractors are who they claim to be and that their qualifications are genuine.
Wireless broadband provider Unwired has welcomed rivals' entry to the market as helping fuel takeup of its Sydney services after announcing the connection of more than 8,000 new customers during the September quarter.
Publication of an open source procurement guide for government agencies is not expected until March this year, four months after the early December timeframe flagged by officials last year.
Telstra plans to launch in the next few days a mini help-desk software tool for its BigPond Internet customer base as part of its AU$100 million package to shore up its Internet service provider arm.
Qantas chief information officer Fiona Balfour is no sit-on-her-hands time-server.
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