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    The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has extended their outsourcing arrangement with troubled IT giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

  • Lockheed Martin in $1bn ATO race

    The Australian Taxation Office has picked a shortlist of five vendors, including aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin Australia, to compete for a key part of the agency's AU$1 billion technology outsourcing work.

  • Environment dept makes outsourcing move

    The federal Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) is one step closer to replacing an eight-year-old IT outsourcing contract believed to be held by Commander after it today started briefing the industry on its requirements.

  • ATO IT dept caged in AU$1bn outsourcing deals

    The Australian Tax Office's past outsourcing contracts were too rigid to cope with technological change, according to its CIO, Bill Gibson -- so this time, business gets shotgun and IT will take a back seat.

  • ABS seeks classified information

    The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is seeking a vendor for a new taxonomy application as part of a simplified business reporting initiative led by the federal Treasury.

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    NBN a lose-lose deal for Telstra

    Labor's policy of socialised broadband has certainly proved much harder than the party believed it would be back when it was in Opposition, but it is Telstra that stands to lose the most from the NBN - and that applies whether it loses the NBN contract or wins it.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Could they all just kiss and make up already?

    Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Budgeting for a skills shortage

    There is no technology skills crisis ... yet, according to a senior government technology official.

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  • Security with bite: 15 technologies tested

    In this special review, we round up the various authentication devices on the market. From fingerprint scanners, to single sign-on software and biometric technology -- we have the authentication market covered.

  • Readers livid, Rambus vulnerable

    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.

  • Flash Forward

    As a size barrier looms for the memory chips, the industry works to come up with a successor.

  • MYOB FirstAccounts

    For anyone starting off their own small service based business, with the emphasis on small and with limited accounting knowledge, MYOB FirstAccounts would be a darned good starting point. Admittedly, if your company grows you will probably need to upgrade to, say, MYOB Accounting. If you sell a product and need to keep an inventory then FirstAccounts is definitely not for you.

  • Do it yourself E-commerce Site

    So you want to get online with your own e-commerce website? There are plenty of online operations that will tell you how easy it is to get your shop up and running on the Web, but how easy is it really?

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