Amcom acquires People Telecom’s WA data business
NZX and ASX listed telco People Telecom has announced the sale of its Perth corporate data business to Amcom Telecommunications for A$6.25 million (NZ$7.16 million).
Stories by Sandra Rossi
Data leaks equal eight percent drop in revenue
The IT Policy Compliance Group has released research showing 20% of enterprises suffer from more than 22 sensitive data losses per year.
BI is highest-ranking priority: CIO poll
A Gartner survey shows that CIOs rank business intelligence (BI) projects as the number one technology priority for 2007. The prominence given to BI presents both opportunities and threats for BI vendors, according to Gartner.
Telstra enforces silence over CIO’s resignation
Telstra is remaining tight-lipped about the resignation of its chief information officer, Fiona Balfour.
Failed outsourcing deals blamed on people issues
Successful outsourcing isn’t about tight contracts and meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Rather, it is strictly a people-oriented business and is based on relationships between provider and customer, according to the first global outsourcing survey to be undertaken by KPMG.
Technology on tap to measure shrinking water supplies
As parliamentarians from both sides of the political divide debate ways to deal with Australia's shrinking water resources, CSIRO researchers have been busy developing high-tech solutions to make sense of the looming crisis.
Aussie researchers develop tool to measure the real value of IT systems
Organisations can now measure the value of enterprise IT systems using a new tool being developed by researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
A techie’s journey: from the back-room to the boardroom
To make the journey from the back-room to the boardroom, Commonwealth Bank CEO Ralph Norris says he had to become a salesman, one that not only sold the benefits of technology but enabled successful implementations.
ASX introduces formal ICT dress code
Pony-tails, brown sandals and the much-loved penguin t-shirts are out as organisations move to raise the dress code in ICT departments.
Australian initiative launched to ease skills crisis
In an effort to overcome continuing skills shortages, Australian CIOs have launched an initiative of their own to find quality graduates and entry-level ICT candidates.
Delete dud data before upping storage: analysts
The average installed storage capacity at Fortune 1,000 companies has grown from 198 to 680 terabytes in less than two years, according to a report from research firm TheInfoPro (TIP).
Australia’s Deakin University begins BI upgrade
Deakin University is expanding its business intelligence capabilities to include reporting, analysis, score-carding, dashboards and business event management on a single architecture.
Aussie TV channel puts finance chief in charge of tech spending
Australian TV channel the Seven Network is losing its most senior ICT executives in the wake of plans to transfer all ICT spending decisions to the company’s chief financial officer.
Aussie govt in $953 million bid to ease tech skills crisis
The Australian federal government has launched an A$837 million (NZ$953 million) programme to ease the skills crisis.
Most ICT spending is ‘dead money’: Gartner
Claiming that IT spending is not contributing to business growth, a senior Gartner figure says eight out of every ten dollars spent is “dead money”.