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    Tensions are rising at UNSW's School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), where a plan by the university to centralise all IT services has met with a hostile response from staff and students.

  • CenITex replaces $493k COO

    Victorian shared services provider CenITex has gone to market for a new chief operating officer to fill Thana Velummylum's former role.

  • Rudd's dept flags ICT outsourcing deals

    The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has gone to tender for core ICT services and telephony management services contracts which together could be worth over $26 million.

  • Fosters picks Wipro for IT outsourcing

    Australian beer and wine giant Fosters Group will outsource much of its internal IT department to Indian outsourcer Wipro, according to multiple sources.

  • Datacom wins Xstrata help desk deal

    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.

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    An ITIL threat

    Think the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework is boring? So did one Commonwealth Bank worker, apparently. She doesn't work there anymore.

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    Most people agree that IBM's Lotus Notes product is one of the most advanced and popular collaboration suites out there.

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  • Case study: Western Power quality tool

    Despite having a quality management product on the books at Western Power, no one was using it, causing the energy company to have problems with software development quality.

  • Customs: Murray Harrison, CIO

    Australian Customs CIO Murray Harrison dislikes SLAs and runs away if a vendor talks to him about innovation. In this interview, he also explains why getting excited about gadgets can be dangerous and talks about how Customs' outsourcing strategy has evolved.

  • Department of Defence: Greg Farr, CIO (part two)

    In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.

  • Blades of gold -- a virtual migration

    Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines is in the process of moving its IT infrastructure from a fleet of traditional servers to virtual servers running on blade hardware.

  • Photos: Telstra launches T.Life concept store

    The new interactive Telstra "flagship" store will be open from 2 November. Dubbed T.Life, the store is located at 400 George Street, on the corner of George and King on the group floor of the Telstra building.

Reviews (1)

  • Australian ISP Shootout

    The Internet is in the process of taking over our lives, so if you aren't connected, maybe it is time you were.

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