VHA CTO resigns after 23 years with company
Vodafone Hutchison Australia's chief technology officer, Andy Reeves, has resigned.
Vodafone Hutchison Australia's chief technology officer, Andy Reeves, has resigned.
Perth-based venture capital firm, Yuuwa Capital, has injected $1.5 million worth of investment into data capture and management player, Agworld, which focuses specifically on the agricultural industry.
The University of Adelaide is calling it quits with paper-based textbooks and will hand out free iPads to students enrolling in a science degree in 2011, claiming the new Apple tablets will revolutionise the way science is taught at the institution.
The Australian Taxation Office has signed contracts with Lockheed Martin – a US technology giant better known for the construction of fighter jets and missiles than enterprise IT services – to provide desktop PC and other end-user computing services, in a deal estimated at $60 million a year.
The National Broadband Network Company has advertised several dozen new jobs as it ramps up hiring in the wake of political certainty over its future, including several wireless roles that will play a key role in its rollout of next-generation wireless infrastructure around the nation.
Labor’s deal with the independents to roll out the National Broadband Network to regional areas first means it will now necessarily have to place a big emphasis on the wireless component of the network’s construction, according to Pipe Networks managing director and long-time NBN critic, Bevan Slattery.
Online real estate giant, REA Group, has migrated its in-house staff email system to Telstra's T-Suite platform, purchasing 750 Exchange Online accounts in what Telstra claims is its biggest T-Suite cloud computing deal so far.
The outspoken chief executive of internet service provider, Exetel, has issued a blunt reaction to the news that the National Broadband Network project is likely to go ahead: “God help us all”.
Networking giant, Cisco, has won a major contract with Victoria’s Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, which will see the public sector titan standardise on Cisco equipment throughout its operations.
Google has publicly advertised the job leading its Australian and New Zealand operations, following the imminent promotion of its current local chief, Karim Temsamani, to a key mobile position in the search giant's Mountain View headquarters in the US.
Australia might still be waiting to find out which of the major parties will form Government following Election 2010, but it appears the three independents yet to make up their mind which side they will support are still giving off signs they view Labor’s National Broadband Policy with enthusiasm.
After some time hinting it would do so, Japanese electronics giant, Sony, has finally committed to bringing several of its eReader line-up to Australia, partnering with giant retail chain Borders to do so.
Internode has become the latest internet service provider to launch an ADSL broadband plan featuring a terabyte of broadband quota.
The Android invasion on Australia is set to push on with a new wave of stormtroopers — Samsung’s Android 2.2 Froyo-operated tablet. The company this morning announced that its Galaxy Tab device is set to arrive in Australia in the last quarter of the year and rival Apple’s iPad tablet.
Chinese manufacturer Huawei yesterday said it was talking to carriers in Australia and New Zealand about local distribution of its new IDEOS mobile phone, which runs the latest version of Google’s Android operating system.