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  • HP cuts over 3,000 UK EDS jobs

    Hewlett-Packard will cut 3,378 former EDS jobs in its UK workforce, the company announced overnight.

  • ASG targets Defence with acquisition

    IT services firm ASG Group has acquired ASX-listed Oracle database firm AD-B Group for $3 million, claiming it gives the company an in-road to lucrative defence contracts.

  • ATO unfazed by HP/EDS cuts

    Hewlett-Packard's move to chop about 24,600 jobs worldwide following its US$13.9 billion EDS buy might not have much impact on the merged group's operation in Australia, according to Australian Taxation Office CIO Bill Gibson.

  • Customs CIO leaves

    Ausralian Customs Service chief information officer Murray Harrison today said he would leave the agency next Wednesday, ending his six-year tenure with the agency.

  • KAZ to fire 100 staff?

    Telstra today declined to confirm or deny a report that it was firing up to 100 staff from its troubled IT services division KAZ.

  • Unisys Australia nabs new MD from SAP

    Global IT services firm Unisys has formally replaced its local managing director Steve Parker, more than half a year after the executive quietly left the company to take the chief operating officer role at up and coming competitor Oakton.

  • Palm OS II due date slips

    Palm CEO Ed Colligan has tweaked the shipping expectations for the company's new Linux-based operating system, known as Palm OS II.

  • HP job cuts dangerous, warns UK union

    The UK Public and Commercial Services Union this week said the jobs of former civil servants employed by EDS could be axed, following the takeover of the company by HP.

  • EDS' Aussie union wants answers

    US technology giant Hewlett Packard needed to clarify how many Australian jobs would be affected by its worldwide job cuts, the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA) said today.

  • HP silent on Aussie job cuts

    Hewlett-Packard today said it was "too early" to comment on whether Australian job cuts would result from the US$13.9 billion acquisition of EDS or even which executive would lead the combined entity locally in the immediate future.

  • HP/EDS to cut 24,600 jobs

    Technology giant Hewlett-Packard said overnight that it would chop about 24,600 jobs, or 7.5 per cent of its total workforce following its US$13.9 billion acquisition of Texan IT services firm Electronic Data Systems.

  • Microsoft attacks potential VMWare feature

    Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley last week criticised virtualisation rival VMWare for an idea that could see virtualised operating system images patched while they were still running in memory.

  • CommBank CIO gets $1m pay rise

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief information officer Michael Harte received an increase just shy of $1 million to his total remuneration package in the 2008 financial year, according to the bank's annual report released today.

  • Chrome's jittered JavaScript kills Silverlight?

    The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation Silverlight Web technology will be JavaScript, not Adobe's ubiquitous Flash, according to experts speaking at Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this morning.

  • CommBank rolls out Office 2007

    The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has completed a deployment of Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite to 38,000 desktops a year after giving Google Apps the thumbs down.

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