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  • Service Stream CEO resigns

    The chief executive of Aussie contracting group Service Stream has stepped down, following what he described as a "very disappointing" period for the company financially.

  • CIO profile: AMP's Lee Barnett

    In today's highly dynamic banking world, top-ranking technology tsars tend to change roles or company every few years. But some have more longevity. Long-time AMP chief information officer Lee Barnett fills us in on her priorities, seven years after she first won her role.

  • Superwoman flies away with Sites

    Financial services group Superwoman is the first Australian company to pilot Salesforce.com's new Sites product released overnight.

  • Financial regulator delves into IT security

    The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) released draft guidelines for IT security last Friday, which laid out practices to improve areas of "potential weakness" in the financial services industry.

  • IBM Australia hit $4bn in 2008

    Enterprise technology giant IBM must be thanking Australia a billion or more correctly four, after Big Blue's local office pulled in more than $4 billion in revenues for the first time in the 2008 calendar year.

  • CBA reinvents SLAs for Telstra deal

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia's $1 billion telecommunications deal with Telstra is the toughest the bank has negotiated with a supplier, according to CBA CIO Michael Harte, and all without the use of traditional service level agreements (SLAs).

  • Qld's Stanwell plans new datacentres

    Queensland state-owned energy supplier Stanwell Corporation this week revealed plans to build two new Tier 3 datacentres; plans that should be upgraded, according to one analyst.

  • Kaz customers welcome Fujitsu deal

    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.

  • New Telstra CEO: Top 10 most likely

    We scoured the world to find the best and have detailed the top 10 candidates we consider most likely to succeed Sol Trujillo as the chief executive of Telstra.

  • CenITex reveals management team

    New Victorian government shared services agency Cenitex has revealed the management team that will lead its operations delivering ICT infrastructure and desktop shared services to the state government.

  • Giant Aussie 2009 predictions round-up

    What will 2009 hold for Australia's ICT industry? We asked dozens of local leaders for their predictions; and this is what they came up with.

  • ANZ network grinds as cuts loom

    Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's teller machine network ground to a halt today, amidst unrelated concern over job cuts looming at the financial giant.

  • Sun reports 7% loss on revenue

    Sun reported a 7 per cent drop in first-quarter revenue on Thursday, coming in the mid-range of its previously lowered earnings forecast.

  • Caspari needs to come clean

    The first task on new EDS Australia and New Zealand vice president David Caspari's plate should be to come clean on exactly what the local consequences of HP's acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant will be.

  • Speed comes off Satyam rocket

    The Australian division of Indian IT outsourcer Satyam has slowed the rate at which it is hiring new staff and reported flat growth over the past three months.

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