Optus launches mobile broadband
Optus has formed a partnership with wireless Internet group Personal Broadband Australia to provide mobile broadband services to corporate customers. The telco is also in discussions with Unwired Australia.
Optus has formed a partnership with wireless Internet group Personal Broadband Australia to provide mobile broadband services to corporate customers. The telco is also in discussions with Unwired Australia.
Epicor Software has picked up three new channel partners through its distributor, Cogita.
SkyNetGlobal subsidiary, W Home, has acquired all shares and business assets in Melbourne-based Eon3 Home Automation for $400,000.
Sun Microsystems said it is outsourcing its internal information technology team to CSC in a contract worth $US360 million.
Cisco this week added a Cisco Certified Voice Professional (CCVP) to its educational suite in response to heightened customer and channel partner demand.
Advanced Micro Devices will begin putting 3-D holographic labels on the packaging of boxed processors so that customers, resellers and distributors can verify the authenticity of the chips, the company said last week.
IT opposition spokeswoman Senator Kate Lundy today said the rapid growth of Australia's ICT trade deficit is a graphic symbol of the Howard Government's indifference to the local ICT industry.
Many Australian companies' budgets are inadequate to meet the growing number of compliance projects, according to the Resource Connection Australia (RCA) survey.
Datatec, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)-listed networking, technology and services group, has announced that its Logicalis subsidiary has sold its Australian and New Zealand operations to IBM for $US66m in cash, inclusive of working capital adjustments.
Up to 40 traders have been targeted in a crackdown on scam Internet sites undertaken by Australia's competition watchdog.
StorageTek Australia and New Zealand has launched the StorageTek Learning Solutions business unit which includes Australia's first nationally accredited data storage engineering qualification, according to the company.
Australia and South Korea have signed a memorandum of understanding to regulate and stem the tide of spam in their countries.
IBM plans to add 10,000 new jobs next year, according to CEO Sam Palmisano.
The SCO Group has decided to give Linux users another two weeks before doubling the license fees it is demanding for its Intellectual Property License for Linux, and has backed off on plans to begin sending invoices to commercial Linux users.
Attorney General Daryl Williams has been appointed the new Communications and Information Technology Minister under a Cabinet reshuffle announced by Prime Minister John Howard on Monday.