The prospect of Gartner inheriting a monopoly of the end-user analysis market in Australia after cannibalizing the Meta Group has taken a tumble. Ovum, the UK and Europe-based analysis and consultancy is ramping up its local activities to snatch market share.
IT vendors pushing costly proprietary software lock-ins have been warned that feeding at the $4.2 billion IT trough of the Australian taxpayer is over and a strict and a new procurement diet for vendors will be personally enforced by the Special Minister of State, Senator Eric Abetz.
Australia's chief law officer, Attorney General Philip Ruddock, has delivered the stiffest warning yet to Australia's business community that IT security must be taken seriously by the captains of industry, or enterprises will suffer the consequences.
EMC Documentum has lost its Australian managing director Graham Pullen to rival content management vendor Vignette, where Pullen will take over the reins as Asia Pacific vice president.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has re-signed infrastructure outsourcer EDS for another two years at the price of $300 million until 2008, at the same time negotiating another two-year contract extension until 2010 without going to public tender.
The online car yard fined for breaching the Spam Act has hit out at legal inconsistencies in the regulation of marketing communications in Australia, claiming current spam legislation gives major media players an unfair commercial advantage.
With the Federal Budget only weeks away, public sector IT is in for a major shake-up as the Howard ministry prepares for some of the biggest structural changes in 20 years, backed by the mandate of a full senate majority.
Taxpayer-funded penguin power has received a boost in NSW, with the state's Department of Commerce (DOC) anointing 11 open source software and services vendors by way of a panel agreement.
Pressure to get in line with the global financial services initiative Basel II is elevating the status of once-humble data warehouse managers to business champions.
Vendor hype that RFID is stable and ready for enterprise deployment got another reality check from the logistics industry, this time by FedEx Asia Pacific CIO Linda Brigance.
A lack of eager and willing aspirants to take over the Telstra CEO's chair of ousted boss Ziggy Switkowski may see the appointment of a successor delayed, with Telstra chairman Donald McGauchie conceding a July deadline may not be fixed.
The federal government will not create new laws to ban spyware after a legal review found existing legislation already does the job for most miscreant acts the technology can be used for.
If the thought of backing up e-mail evokes feelings of dread, spare a thought for Australia's librarians who are racing against the clock to digitize millions of decaying photographic images before nature has its cruel way.
After a spell on the portfolio sidelines thanks to an election, IT is well and truly back on the John Howard government's fourth term agenda with political hard-man and Special Minister of State Eric Abetz now hitting the straps to drive home the message on how government intends to do IT business in its $4.2 billion backyard.
The Federal government may soon implement fingerprint scans for clients of social security agency Centrelink, with two federal ministers so far refusing to rule out the proposition.