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  • Packer vows to continue One.Tel fight

    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.

  • ANZ appoints new CIO

    Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) announced today that it had selected a CIO to replace Peter Dalton who left that position last year.

  • ACS appoints new CEO

    The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has again filled its CEO position after former CEO Kim Denham was sacked in May this year.

  • NSW Ageing CIO retires

    James Hegarty, current CIO for the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care as well as former IT head at the state's Department of Corrections, is retiring after around 30 years in the public service.

  • The end of Kaz: Fujitsu kills brand name

    From Friday, Fujitsu's Kaz and Supply Chain brands would cease to exist, being relabelled as Fujitsu, the company said today.

  • ATO's $879m 'worst-case scenario'

    Second Commissioner of Taxation David Butler today said that the increased $879 million budget for the Australian Taxation Office's Change Program quoted in an audit report released yesterday was a worst-case scenario.

  • ATO Change Program budget now $879m

    The budget for the Change Program has again been bumped up as the Australian Taxation Office says it needs $105 million to finish the project over the next two years on top of the $749 million it has already spent.

  • Conroy on Minchin's 'Luddite' delays

    This afternoon Communications Minister Stephen Conroy described his opposite, Senator Nick Minchin, as a Luddite as he took questions from reporters on the Opposition's attempt to block the government's wide-ranging telecommunications industry reform legislation, which includes provisions to force the break-up of Telstra.

  • Apple challenges Woolies logo

    Apple has protested the use of Woolworths' new apple-shaped trademark, which looks similar to the well-known brand image loved by Mac fans worldwide.

  • DWS retains ATO e-tax support deal

    Local IT services firm DWS Advanced Business Solutions has retained the contract to support the Australian Taxation Office's e-tax software.

  • Has Conroy's dept received filter report?

    Uncertainty reigns about whether Stephen Conroy's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has received Enex Testlabs' report into the feasibility of ISP-level content filtering.

  • Telstra split-up: Complete industry response

    The telecommunications industry seems to be wreathed in euphoric mist after today's announcement which looks to lead to Telstra's separation, but there are still voices of caution to be heard.

  • NBN critic Concept Economics goes bust

    Concept Economics, the consultancy that recently estimated the costs of the National Broadband Network outweighed the benefits by up to $20 billion, has gone into administration.

  • Gmail knocked offline for majority of users

    Google's Gmail service was knocked offline on Tuesday in an outage that the company said affected a "majority" of its millions of email users.

  • Telstra appeals ACCC's $30 ULLS rejection

    Telstra today launched an appeal in Federal Court to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's April rejection of its $30 per month wholesale undertaking for Unconditional Local Loop Services over the telco's copper network.

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