Aussie Sun staff face uncertainty amid job cuts
Some 650 local Sun employees have been left hanging while the company decides who will face the axe in its plan to cull 6000 jobs globally.
Stories by Darren Pauli
Unisys scores Railcorp security contract
RailCorp will deploy a new identity verification system to regulate access to its human resources services pending results of a pilot.
SOA the logical choice for logistics giant
A $1.5 billion global logistics company is not what many consider agile, but Dematic has proven it is just that after the Asia Pacific arm replaced its core IT architecture in less than a month with a platform built on Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
EDS sacks 75 Australian staff following HP buyout
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) will slash 75 staff from its local workforce as part of a global headcount reduction lead by parent company Hewlett-Packard (HP) which plans to axe 24,600 jobs over three years.
Aussies to get no opt-out of filtered internet
Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say.
Terria holds ground as Telecom's AAPT walks
Telecommunications consortium Terria has remained defiant after AAPT became the second member to withdraw its membership in less than four months.
Google blacklists ATUG website
Hackers may have hit the Australian Telecommunications User Group (ATUG) website, according to Google which has placed security threat warnings across all pages displayed in searches.
Backup a disaster for Aussie business
Disaster recovery programs are failing because of a lack of resources and an increase in the use of virtualisation, according to research.
Water utility re-jigs IT to make business intelligent
Sydney Water will save more than A$1.6 million (NZ$1.96 million) in operational expenditure (OPEX) after it replaces its ailing data collection system with an enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform from Business Objects.
IBM flightdeck strikes called off
Workers at IBM’s “Flightdeck” facility in Baulkham Hills have withdrawn threats of Friday strikes following negotiations this morning between IBM executives and union bosses.
Aussie 'net filtering trial set for failure, say critics
A glowing report on the government's national internet content filtering scheme has again outraged telecommunications providers and privacy advocates who declared the results biased and worthless.
Queensland Health CIO axed
Queensland Health CIO Paul Summergreene has been sacked amid investigations into allegations he cashed-in up to A$25,000 (NZ$32,000) in false expenses.
Obama, Al Qaeda recruit for Rustock
Barack Obama has left the presidential campaign trail and joined George W Bush, Al Qaeda and Microsoft to recruit zombies for the world's second largest botnet, Rustock.
New South Wales government revives Tcard project
NSW's failed Tcard smart card ticketing system has been resuscitated only six months after the project was scrapped in a A$90 million (US$86.4 million) fall out.
Auckland models fares system on WA's SmartRider
Auckland's Integrated Fares System (AFIS) has been modelled off the Western Australian SmartRider system.