The Northern Territory's Power and Water Corporation has started the search for a chief information officer (CIO) to help it provide IT in "some of the harshest conditions on the planet".
Darwin-based IT services group CSG today revealed it had bucked the global financial crisis and rapidly expanded its business in a period that saw some of its rivals suffer headwinds.
Datacom announced today that it had won a two-year multimillion dollar deal with mining group Xstrata to provide an IT service desk to over 2000 users.
Virtually every large technology goods and services provider in Australia has thrown their hat in the ring as the Northern Territory Government prepares to overhaul its ICT contracts in an $80 million whole of government purchasing initiative.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has called for tenders to build the $250 million backhaul telecommunications links, which target six regional centres in all states and territories except Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.
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Despite Tasmania and the Northern Territory grumbling about excessive backhaul pricing, the ACCC said it hasn't received any formal complaints.
While most hopes for permanent wireless data connection lay with the new GPRS mobile phone network, one company is already offering a similar service to Australian owners of Palm V series PDAs and IBM WorkPads. Global Wireless Application Service Provider, dotWAP provides an 'always-online' wireless connection through a Neo1 sled modem operating over United Wireless' Mobitex packet-switched network.
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