The Australian Taxation Office has revealed that its five-year desktop services contract with defence giant and IT contractor, Lockheed Martin, has a total price tag of $380 million — 25 per cent more than initially estimated.
Over the past few years, the term “information technology” has appeared to become increasingly out of vogue within the Federal Government, with Australia’s IT sector having to divide its attentions between the communications and innovation portfolios when it came to pushing the cause for its own industry development.
Software giants such as IBM and Microsoft might shortly find themselves starting to lose staff to their much smaller business intelligence rival MicroStrategy. The reason? The company is swamped with Apple iPads, according to the chief of its Australian division — and it’s lending them to customers for demos.
Incoming Minister for Finance and Deregulation Penny Wong appears to have passed responsibility for the Federal Government’s peak IT strategy group to Special Minister of State, Gary Gray.
The Greens have dug up a handful of further details about Labor’s controversial mandatory filter project through the questions on notice procedure, including the fact that Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, will shortly receive a report on a confidential online forum held by his department on the topic in April this year.
Search giant Google has bowed to developer demand and started allowing Australians to sell software through its mobile applications market.
Two of Australia's prominent energy utilities have expanded existing relationships with IT outsourcing partners as they look to wring more value from their IT support arrangements.
Telstra has outlined plans to drive an extensive internal program of reforms that its chief executive, David Thodey, believes will transform the company’s customer service experience and simplify its complex operations.
The loose-knit confederation of Internet activists who organise under the banner "Anonymous" appeared to hit Australia again this morning, with Operation Payback targeting a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).
The wholesale arm of Australia’s biggest telco, Telstra, has declined to engage in what it described as a “public battle” with its customer Internode. The two companies are in the midst of delicate negotiations which are slated to affect Internode’s ADSL broadband pricing around the nation.
Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has underscored his support for Labor’s controversial mandatory internet filtering scheme in a heated debate on the ABC’s Q&A program with representatives of the public, the Coalition, the Australian Sex Party and more.
It’s not just humans who use Telstra’s Next G mobile network to place calls and share data. Increasingly, inanimate objects — cars, vending machines and even digital photo frames - are doing the same. And Telstra hopes they will do it even more.
Internode boss, Simon Hackett, has speculated that Telstra's wholesale division may be giving some retail Internet service providers better deals because they hadn't built out their own competitive broadband infrastructure as some like Internode, iiNet and TPG had.
Centrelink has kicked off a major technology purchasing initiative worth between $30 million and $40 million, as the national welfare agency continues its drive towards shifting its storage architecture towards being used as a service.
Virgin Blue has blamed Accenture subsidiary, Navitaire, for a disastrous hardware failure that took down its reservations systems and resulted in lengthy queues at Australian airports as the airline was forced to check in passengers manually.
