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  • Aussies pay more: dollar hits ICT prices

    The local branches of a number of global technology powerhouses last week admitted they would hike prices as a result of the declining value of the Australian dollar; and local IT chiefs are not impressed.

  • Developers want Ballmer to show money

    Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers.

  • SAS dismisses Teradata merger talk

    SAS chief executive Jim Goodnight has poured cold water on speculation that the business-intelligence company might merge with its former rival, data warehousing software company Teradata.

  • New St George IT head rakes in $940K

    St George Bank's group executive for group technology and operations, Paul Newham, has pulled in almost a million for his year's work at the bank.

  • Layoffs hit UXC

    ASX-listed IT services firm UXC last week laid off around a dozen employees due to fears that current contracts would be deferred.

  • Kelly laments Westpac's poor IT performance

    At Westpac's annual earnings announcement today, CEO Gail Kelly picked the bank's technology operation as its most notable 'low light' in a year that saw hundreds of IT staff, including the bank's tech titans, purged and replaced with new blood.

  • London could replace Oyster with mobile

    Transport for London may replace its Oyster card with with new ticketing systems operated through mobile phones or bank cards.

  • Caspari needs to come clean

    The first task on new EDS Australia and New Zealand vice president David Caspari's plate should be to come clean on exactly what the local consequences of HP's acquisition of the Texan IT outsourcing giant will be.

  • Oakton, SMS slow down 2009 hiring plans

    Two fast-growing Australian IT services firms have planned a more cautious approach to hiring in 2009 to reflect unpredictable conditions.

  • Speed comes off Satyam rocket

    The Australian division of Indian IT outsourcer Satyam has slowed the rate at which it is hiring new staff and reported flat growth over the past three months.

  • Finances won't kill Terria bid: Conroy

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy today signalled he was unmoved by statements from the Terria telco consortium that the global economic crisis had forced it to seek alternative funding for its national broadband network bid.

  • US tech stocks bounce back

    The beleaguered Dow Jones Industrial Index surged back up above 9,000 in its largest single-day point gain ever Monday in the US, with Apple, Microsoft, Dell, and other tech companies capturing double-digit gains.

  • Massive quantum network unveiled

    The world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, providing a glimpse of how data could be transmitted securely in the future.

  • Aussie councils not keen on Gmail

    Most of Australia's largest metropolitan councils have said they are not immediately interested in adopting Google's Gmail or Apps corporate packages, despite comments by one of the search giant's local partners to the contrary.

  • World Bank gets hacked

    The computer network used by the World Bank Group has suffered a series of at least six intrusions since mid-2007, according to a report.

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