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  • Aviva divvies up former HP contract

    Financial services giant Aviva has started to sign key ICT services contracts as it breaks up a larger outsourcing deal formerly held by Hewlett-Packard.

  • Microsoft snags HP for .Net

    In a sign of deepening ties, the two companies are set to announce a combined effort to push the software giant's .Net services to HP's corporate clients.

  • Software maker Motive takes second shot at IPO

    Motive, which develops support and help desk software for large computer companies, is expected to hold an initial public offering next week--three years after its first attempt.

  • Sendmail puts stamp on HP, Intel deal

    Sendmail has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard and Intel to build a Linux-based e-mail server aimed at corporations with a mobile work force.

  • HP to introduce desktop blades

    Hewlett-Packard will try to take the desktop off the desk later this month, when it formally unveils the Consolidated Client Infrastructure, its latest blade computing system for corporations.

  • HP CIO: A lot of work ahead

    Hewlett-Packard officials have offered a peek at the work going on behind the scenes to revamp its technology systems in the wake of its purchase of Compaq Computer.

  • Desktop of the future: Greek to me

    HP unveiled its idea of the desktop PC of the future at Comdex. But is the vision a little shortsighted?

  • In the PC world, smaller is getting better

    Size may well prove to be everything in some industries, and PC makers intend to cash in on the trend towards smaller form-factor PCs.

  • Will HP/Compaq become a managed services behemoth?

    Given the need to drive hardware sales while Compaq and HP build their combined services organisation, the most likely IT model is that of a managed services provider (MSP) rather than an application services provider (ASP).

  • Kim Carr's supercomputer: Contest winner

    Expectations for comedy gold were high going into last week's caption contest, and we certainly were not let down, with high-grade champagne comedy flowing freely.

  • DFAT to overhaul ASG help desk deal

    The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is gearing up for a nine-month IT help desk transformation project to improve desktop support for its VIPs, diplomats and senior government officials.

  • WA Education Dept inks $185m ICT deal

    Western Australia's Department of Education and Training has signed a $185 million contract with Perth-based IT services outfit Kinetic IT to continue to provide infrastructure services and support.

  • CASA flys to ASG in $8m deal

    Western Australian ASX-listed IT services firm ASG today confirmed it had won the Federal Government Civil Aviation Safety Authority's managed services deal over incumbent Darwin-based supplier CSG.

  • ACMA, DEWHA get new IT suppliers

    The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) have both recently signed on new vendors to take over their formerly Commander-led managed services contracts.

  • ATO fingers Optus for network deal

    The Australian Taxation Office has chosen Optus over Dimension Data for its managed network services contract, which the agency has said is worth around $60.5 million a year.

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