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  • BT to shed 10,000 workers

    British telco BT this week revealed plans to let go of 10,000 workers by the end of March 2009.

  • Nokia, Motorola slash jobs

    Communications hardware manufacturers Nokia and Motorola have flagged potential and actual redundancies in the wake of disappointing profits.

  • Data#3 named Defence's new Microsoft reseller

    Defence has awarded Data#3 a three-year Microsoft large account reseller contract in a deal which could see the IT services company also servicing other agencies across the Commonwealth.

  • 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.

  • Xerox to cut 3,000 jobs

    The world's largest printing and document services company has announced plans to cut 5 per cent of its workforce and lower its forecast for the next quarter.

  • 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.

  • Fujitsu narrows storage focus

    Japanese technology giant Fujitsu has unveiled plans to launch enterprise-grade storage as a service to its Australian customers, although it will cut down the number of hardware vendors it focuses on.

  • Aussie IT jobs market still buoyant

    There is still plenty of local work for skilled IT staff despite a global financial crisis, according to one of Australia's largest technology staff recruiters, but not much room to move in terms of higher salaries.

  • 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.

  • Installing Polaris datacentre generators: Photos

    Yesterday workers installed six 22 tonne diesel power generators into one of Australia's largest datacentres prior to prepare it for its official opening early next year.

  • Photos: Open Office 3 new features

    When the third major release of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite made its appearance on Monday, the OpenOffice.org servers promptly crashed. Check out this gallery to see what's new.

  • Qantas mayhem spurs Airbus response

    Plane manufacturer Airbus has issued new guidelines to carriers operating its A330 model, after Australian investigators blamed a computer fault for causing a terrifying mid-air plunge.

  • Palin ordered to save e-mails

    Alaska Governor Sarah Palin must save any emails she sent from private accounts regarding state business, a US judge ordered late last week.

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