George Gilder is known for predicting the future of technology five to ten years ahead. His latest prediction is that communications will be the stocks to soar. According to Gilder, in the 'telecosmic' universe, a coming abundance of bandwidth will make optics companies "the Intels" of the future.
Optus has won Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's five-year, $500 million managed telecommunications and network overhaul contract.
Telstra has sealed a 10-year telecommunications and managed computing deal with Coca-Cola Amatil.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia yesterday said it would announce the winner of its 10-year, $1.3 billion managed telecommunications deal at the end of March.
Australian beer and wine giant Foster's has acknowledged it is conducting a wide-ranging review of its technology operations, but stopped short of confirming offshoring jobs was one option on the table.
Australia's IT services market has come through its relatively mild financial crisis relatively unscathed, and certainly in much better shape than it could have ever anticipated.
Hewlett-Packard's contemptuous termination of the 47-year-old EDS brand in a five-paragraph statement filled with marketing hogwash today is a colossal mistake and one the company will live to regret.
Michael Young, the chief technology officer of Hutchison, doesn't believe outsourcing is a good move for companies. So when the telco considered outsourcing its network, he went about things a little differently to usual.
Business process outsourcing has much in common with its smaller sibling IT outsourcing, but there are still some lessons to be learned.
A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like?
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Hutchison Telecoms, which owns Orange, has outsourced the operation of its Australian mobile networks to Ericsson Australia in a seven-year deal that is expected to save the telco over AU$40 million.
Earlier this month, Ericsson raised a few eyebrows with a warning that it might stop investing in Sony Ericsson, its handset partnership with Sony, if the business continues to disappoint.
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