Victoria Police's IT division under disgraced chief information officer Valda Berzins had a "disregard for proper procurement and contract management", a new report has revealed, which saw contracts fail to go to tender while their dollar values ballooned beyond approved amounts.
Chief executive of telecommunications provider M2 Vaughan Bowen today said the company shed 15 to 20 per cent of People Telecom's staff following its acquisition, but it also took on 140 of Commander's call centre staff.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship is about to put major elements of its mammoth Systems for People technology overhaul behind it as it looks to its next release.
Yesterday at CeBIT, Australian Government Information Management Office division manager for business improvement John Sheridan outlined exactly how much the Federal Government hoped to save on its business as usual information technology spend over the next few years.
The NSW Road and Traffic Authority's chief information officer Greg Carvouni has made the leap to the private sector via Fujitsu, one of the RTA's key IT suppliers.
Is Australia and New Zealand Banking Group suffering from a lack of strategic IT leadership as its year-long search for a new chief information officer drags on?
Several factors have combined recently to make a number of Australian organisations reconsider their Microsoft Enterprise Agreements.
As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.
It was around nine years since strong-armed government departments began to realise willy-nilly outsourcing wasn't, perhaps, the best idea. However, with contracts signed and staff already migrated, there was little to do but ride out the storm. In this special report, we look at the Victoria Police and the South West Alliance of Rural Hospitals' approach to managed services.
The move to Itanium has meant a rocky road for Hewlett-Packard's high-end server group. But the man leading the company's transition to the Intel chip believes the worst potholes are in the rear-view mirror.
For makers of a widely used type of PC memory, 2004 is shaping up as a two-pronged winner: Prices for the current technology are surging, and a new, high-profit replacement is about to hit store shelves.
Would you put the security of your company into someone else's hands? ZDNet Australia finds out what benefits and peace of mind a managed service can provide.
Why did Intel risk the fate of its Pentium 4 by failing to offer lower cost DDR components for P4 systems? Was this some kind of conspiracy? David Berlind has a theory.
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