HP's UK division said it and subsidiary, IT outsourcer EDS, were meeting with employees to discuss where jobs would be cut following yesterday's announcement that 3,378 UK jobs will go over the next two years.
Apple is expected to unveil updates to its laptop line next week with the official confirmation issued overnight that it was planning a press event in the US.
Optus has run into problems again with its mobile phone network after a software upgrade over the weekend broke the carrier's ability to port some numbers to or from the network.
Shadow Communications Minister Senator Nick Minchin today said he thought it unlikely a builder for the Federal Government's $4.7 billion national broadband network would be locked in for another 12 months.
Symantec's acquisition of MessageLabs will give it some very large Australian customers, including QBE, Westpac Bank and Virgin Blue.
Australia's major banks will continue to pursue huge technology projects that will fuel local IT spending for the next few years despite the global financial crisis, according to a leading local analyst.
The quiet launch of the NSW State Government's ServiceFirst agency was an attempt to avoid the woes of similar 'big bang' shared services programs in Western Australia and Queensland, according to one analyst.
The New South Wales State Government has no plans to consolidate its existing shared services agency BusinessLink with the new division, ServiceFirst, which the Government quietly set up over the past few months to provide similar services to different agencies.
Security giant Symantec overnight said it would acquire email security services provider MessageLabs.
Will Suncorp chief information officer Jeff Smith stick around if the bank's rapid decline in value due to the credit crisis lead to a fire sale of several of its key divisions?
BankWest's existing technology platform would continue to underpin its operations until the Commonwealth Bank has fully moved across to its new core banking system in 2011, the bigger bank revealed today as it detailed its takeover plans.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia today said it would merge BankWest's technology platforms with its own as part of its planned $2.1 billion acquisition of the Western Australian bank.
Global software giant Oracle has commenced a recruitment drive for specialists to help deliver on a contract it inked several months ago to deliver the first step of a new core banking system to the National Australia Bank.
Telstra today launched a competition to name its new 9,000km undersea fibre-optic communications cable running to Hawaii.
Financial markets regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has started looking for an external firm to conduct counter-surveillance activities across its information and communications technology systems.
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