Melbourne's Monash University has revealed plans to overhaul and beef up its information technology support division, with the creation of an over-arching chief information officer position and the launch of a new shared services strategy.
The Basslink undersea fibre-optic cable linking Tasmania to the mainland could become operational from early 2009, after a long-awaited agreement was inked today between the key stakeholders involved in the endeavour.
Australia's biggest domain name seller NetRegistry has slammed the government's proposed internet content filtering scheme, claiming that the proposal would hurt small business.
The Australian government's approach to information management has previously often been "grandiose" and overly simplistic, according to Oracle's Australian division, which today mainly backed comments by finance minister Lindsay Tanner that the government needed to adopt Web 2.0-style tools.
Optus this week claimed the 3G mobile outages it had been suffering were normal and every telecommunications carrier would be having similar issues.
Utility Origin Energy overnight said a number of IT staff could be affected as part of a billing system overhaul it has inked with Indian IT services firm Wipro.
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.
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.
Alcatel-Lucent has bagged a $10 million deal with AAPT to provide routing hardware and services at the network edge, the next step in AAPT's network overhaul.
Troubled VoIP company and Seven subsidiary Engin has lost its chief executive officer Mark Zworestine after just nine months in the lead role.
The Australian Defence Force is set to embark on an up to $100 million identity management project, which will support its network-centric warfare ambitions.
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.
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.
The Australian government late yesterday released Sir Peter Gershon's report into federal public sector use of information and communications technology.
Clinicians and consumers have told Australia's peak e-health body to stop conducting pilots and speed up the roll out of a national electronic health record project, according to a report released yesterday.
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