A report by NSW auditor-general Peter Achterstraat has criticised Sydney Water's implementation of a Siebel customer relationship management system which is running $34 million over budget and one-and-a-half years over schedule.
James Packer has indicated he wants to continue the fight over the collapse of One.Tel, maintaining he was "profoundly misled" about the financial position of the company.
NSW Minister for Education, Verity Firth, today said that the government had signed on Telstra to bring fast broadband to over 1.2 million students.
Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser has defended the $450,000 National Broadband Network Company annual pay package for Premier Anna Bligh's outgoing chief of staff, saying he is a very talented man.
A landmark court ruling over the One.Tel collapse has brought its special purpose liquidator closer in his pursuit of Lachlan Murdoch and James Packer on behalf of creditors.
Microsoft is going to be given a beating over the next year or so by government agencies wanting to adopt Windows 7 at bargain basement prices. But it will enjoy each gentle slap.
There's something to be said for the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen an idea of continually improving business via small changes something that unfortunately doesn't seem to glean many votes or impress punters.
I have seen the NBN, and it looks a lot like Christina Aguilera. Or, at least, it looked like her when I dropped into Ericsson's Melbourne headquarters recently to see a live demo of their NBN solutions. Yet behind the streaming TV, one question lingers -- and not even the government seems able to answer it.
South Australian distributed backup start-up Memory Box splits up users' data and spreads it in encrypted form across many customers' PCs. But can the company build trust amongst customers who could be worried about their data being stored on other people's hard drives?
It's state budget time across the country, and this week's episode of Patch Monday looks to see what each state is doing in terms of its IT spend.
What exactly was going on here between Carr and ANU research professor Brian Schmidt at the launch of the ANU's new supercomputer yesterday? A new martial arts move? Explanation of a star going supernova?
For the first time, Kaz chief Mike Foster tells the full story about how the Peter Kazacos' baby was treated within Telstra, and how the deal with Fujitsu went down.
Twitter coverage of the AFACT vs. iiNet trial is breathing new life into court reporting. Why don't we as a society take the next step and stream it all live to the internet, video and audio?
The Pirate Party of Australia should forget about trying to win a Senate seat in the Federal Government and instead focus its sights on even lower hanging fruit. I speak, of course, of the state governments.
Ray Brown stepped in two weeks ago as the latest chief information officer for Queensland Health, hoping to bring some stability to a division that has seen a number of faces move through the head technology spot in quick succession.
The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) may increase the penetration of Linux on its 165,000 desktop fleet because open source is "clearly an industry trend".
Windows Vista seems to be better at fighting off virus infections then XP but the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) will delay an upgrade unless licensing costs are reduced.
After almost a year of testing, the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) admits it could save a 'significant amount' of money by adopting Vista's new management capabilities; but will that recoup the cost of re-training 1.2 million users?
The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET), which has one of the largest IT infrastructures in Australia, will face some unique challenges if it decides to migrate its desktop fleet to Microsoft's new operating system.
In this sneak peek, Tim Anderson, Information Services Director at the NSW Department of Education and Training, tells Munir Kotadia why Windows Vista migration is facing a roadblock.
The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.
Mio 268 could be a novelty for casual drivers, but for the road-warrior, it's a must-have.
Symantec continues to ride the favourable reputation of Norton Utilities, introducing very few new features into Norton SystemWorks 2005.
We look at three hardware tools and one software tool for network maintenance.
Smart cards are anticipated to be the next generation in public transport ticketing systems. What are the obstacles faced in implementing them?
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