Stories by Lauren Thomsen-Moore

Acer Names New MD


Charles Chung now heads Acer Australia as managing director, Filling the VACANCY left by Patrick Lin. Patrick Lin headed off to the US last week after being promoted to president of Acer America Corporation, where he will replace Max Wu.

Telstra puts Tivoli to work on desktops

IT outsourcing provider Advantra has chosen Tivoli management software to manage Telstra's 50,000 computer desktops across Australia.
The project, already in the deployment stage, is one of the largest implementations for Tivoli systems locally.

IT companies and staff cheer up kiddies

In an effort to raise $250,000 for the Starlight Children's Foundation and Giant Steps, Australian IT companies have joined forces to launch an IT charity fund called 'Putting IT Back'.
The initiative will involve the staff of IT companies Com Tech Communications, IBM, Compaq, Optus, Cisco and Dell.

5 minutes with . . . David Gold, CEO, dStore

Computerworld: How did you get into information technology?
David Gold: I joined Looksmart right out of business school. I was always an early adopter of new technologies and was very interested in the Internet right from when it started.

Union threatens action over call centre monitoring

Telstra's trial of a new system designed to record all call centre conversations provoked staff anger last week and union threats of action to prevent the telecommunications giant invading both customer and staff privacy.

5 minutes with. . .Peter Gasparovic, General manager IT, Chubb Security

Computerworld: Did you always envisage you would have a career in IT?
Peter Gasparovic: At school, I did not know what the computer industry would have to offer in the way of challenges and I actually thought it would be just a boring office job. So I saw myself initially as being a policeman and eventually that changed to wanting to be a pilot.

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