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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.

  • 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.

  • Symantec cuts staff

    Symantec will lay off an undetermined number of workers before the end of the year as part of a cost-cutting move in the economic downturn, a company spokesman said on Thursday.

  • WA shared services back on track

    An independent review of the Western Australian Government's mammoth Shared Corporate Services Project has recommended it proceed according to its current plan and budget, as it was currently meeting its revised milestones.

  • WA shared services goes ahead, for now

    Western Australian Treasurer Troy Buswell has given the state's troubled shared services program a new lease of life on the condition that budget targets and implementation milestones be met.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Telstra details supply chain makeover

    Telstra this week said its IBM-led supply chain overhaul had helped shed 400 staff, cut its inventory centres by half, and cut out 2,000 suppliers.

  • Gershon slams govt technocrats

    British efficiency expert Sir Peter Gershon has castigated the federal public sector for poor governance mechanisms on technology projects and a spending model which gave individual departments and agencies too much autonomy.

  • Red Hat: Crisis to boost open source

    The global economic crisis would provide a boost for open source software, Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst claimed during a visit to Sydney this week.

  • 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.

  • ServiceFirst a disaster avoidance strategy

    The quiet launch of the NSW State Government's ServiceFirst agency was an attempt to avoid the woes of similar 'big bang' shared services programs in Western Australia and Queensland, according to one analyst.

  • NSW segregates BusinessLink, ServiceFirst

    The New South Wales State Government has no plans to consolidate its existing shared services agency BusinessLink with the new division, ServiceFirst, which the Government quietly set up over the past few months to provide similar services to different agencies.

  • Australian ICT industry worth $123 billion

    Australia's ICT industry for the year to 30 June 2007 made $123 billion and employed just under 300,000 people, paying $21 billion in wages, according to numbers released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

  • Greenpeace needs Sydney IT chief

    Environmental lobbyist Greenpeace has started looking for an IT manager concerned about climate change to support the technology operation of its Sydney office.

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