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  • AWOL USB causes UK govt system shut down

    A British government computer system has been shut down after a memory stick containing confidential pass codes was found in a pub car park.

  • MYOB holds fire on takeover

    The board of Australian accounting software company MYOB has told its shareholders to resist the temptation to accept an approximately $477 million takeover offer from Manhattan Software Bidco.

  • CD with 3,000 taxpayer details goes missing

    A compact disc containing taxation details of 3,122 Australian taxpayers has gone missing whilst en route to the Australian Taxation Office from its printers.

  • Economic crisis 'has made NBN unviable'

    The global economic crisis has made the Federal Government's National Broadband Network plan an expensive and risky proposition which end users won't have the money to pay for, one analyst said this week.

  • 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.

  • AGL, Macquarie to build electric car infrastructure

    Better Place founder sees Australia as a "small island" test for his system, which he believes could then be used as a model for rolling out the network in the biggest market of all America.

  • UK axes IT projects worth 273m

  • 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.

  • eBay lays off 1,000 as it acquires

    eBay will lay off about 10 per cent of its workforce, the company announced Monday in the US, and said third-quarter results will come in at the low end of expectations.

  • Adobe defends CS4 pricing

    Adobe has responded to criticism regarding the high international prices of its Creative Suite 4 software by saying that the difference was due to many factors, and particularly the "economies of scale of doing business in the US".

  • ATO delays Change Program schedule

    The Australian Taxation Office has pushed back the completion date for its $724 million IT Change Program by 18 months in order to comply with new government requirements and allow more bedding down time for major updates.

  • Freshtel's VoIP dreams turn into a nightmare?

    Australian internet telephony minnow Freshtel, a consumer player that recently started providing enterprise services, today revealed to the ASX it had depleted around half its cash reserves over the past year.

  • EDS reassures Aussie clients

    The Australian division of Texan IT services giant EDS has sent its major local clients letters assuring them that its US$13.9 billion acquisition by Hewlett-Packard wouldn't result in a drop in service levels.

  • AGIMO denies new ICT office

    The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has labelled a newspaper report as "factually incorrect" that it had moved to a strategy of centralised IT procurement before the findings of the Gershon review were released next month.

  • People Telecom cuts CEO's pay

    People Telecom CEO John Stanton has seen a drop in his pay this year compared to last year due to not receiving his performance cash bonus.

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