ING Australia has signed on Indian outsourcing company Wipro as its main IT services supplier in a three-year, $15 million deal.
Telstra has expanded its Twitter customer support footprint with the takeover of the @Telstra account.
National Australia Bank has appointed a new head and executive team for its Next Generation core banking systems overhaul program in preparation for the project's next phase.
ASX-listed IT consultancy SMS Management & Technology has acquired boutique business intelligence consultancy Pelion.
Several of Kaz's major customers have welcomed Fujitsu's plan to buy the Telstra IT services subsidiary, saying they expect no adverse impact from the $200 million takeover.
There's something to be said for the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen an idea of continually improving business via small changes something that unfortunately doesn't seem to glean many votes or impress punters.
Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
Last week's blog on why consumers might be confused by contradictory messages on computer security from banks drew a few objections from interested parties ones that I thought would be worth responding to this week.
Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
From dead parrots to ACCC lawsuits, the National Broadband Network and Fake Stephen Conroy, it's like Telstra is lost in T.S. Eliot's epic poem The Wasteland.
It is quickly becoming the norm for Australia's largest banks to offer discounts on or completely free computer security software to boost internet banking security. The question is, why?
Security is like an onion: getting to the heart of it makes people cry a lot. But in order to protect your systems, security vendors are now recommending an onion-like multilayered approach.
Hewlett-Packard, one of the most aggressive promoters of Intel's Itanium family of processors, is 86ing its line of workstations that use the chips.
CNET's Esther Dyson offers contrary thoughts on Google's IPO, and some ideas for what could come next.
En route to Melbourne this weekend, Formula 1 team AT&T Williams' lead driver Nico Rosberg hopes to power ahead thanks to a new sponsorship deal with Lenovo.
Linus Torvalds has published the last release of the current Linux development kernel, clearing the way for work on the next version of the operating system core.
In the shark-infested world of peer-to-peer file sharing BearShare is an unobtrusive delight, marred only by a low success rate in downloading files.
Despite the RIAA's efforts to shut down file-swapping services, these 10 apps carry Napster's torch.
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