Electronic payment vendor Hypercom said it had signed an approximately $50 million five-year deal with Westpac Banking Corporation.
Trials carried out on the technology for Victoria's massive smart meter roll-out failed to provide "reasonable assurance" on its viability, according to the Victorian Auditor-General in a report slamming the project.
Qantas says it is aiming to halve check-in times for customers at CityFlyer ports with new technology to be rolled out across Australia.
Independent senator Nick Xenophon over the weekend said he backed a structural separation of communication giant Telstra as long as regional Australia got a fair deal.
The newly formed Australian Pirate Party came out swinging yesterday with a release criticising the international discussions currently being held in Korea to cement an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
Telstra workers will strike after negotiations with the company's management over enterprise bargaining agreements reached a deadlock, its main union said today.
A NZ government-funded survey has raised questions about the productivity gains to be made from providing fast internet access.
Insurance Australia Group subsidiary CGU has mapped out a five-year IT transformation to simplify the way the company handles its business.
ICANN, the nonprofit body that oversees internet addresses has approved the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on the Latin alphabet in a decision that could make the web dramatically more inclusive.
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.
The Federal Government yesterday invited bids for its $100 million smart grid pilot, Smart City, which the government hopes will inform it of the costs and benefits of the technology.
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.
TelstraClear is spending around $NZ25 million putting its own equipment into telephone exchanges.
National Australia Bank CEO Cameron Clyne has said that the bank's Next Generation core banking project is running on course, but declined to give any details of its progress.
The NSW Government yesterday went to market with its plan to move its dozens of datacentres from over 30 agencies into two new efficient facilities by 2011, while Victoria said it would soon release a tender for whole-of-government needs.
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