Stories by Peter Young

Telstra takes on US Telcos over Internet charges

Telstra wants government help to force US carriers to pay their share of the costs of transmitting Internet data that their customers extract from the world outside America. ISPs similar things to what the big US operators are doing to it.

Govt IT outsourcing sparks staff backlash

Frustration, dissatisfaction and low morale appear endemic among the residual IT staff of a number of federal government departments that have played the outsourcing card.
Several industry sources who spoke to Computerworld claim the two-year-plus outsourcing contract between the Department of Veterans' Affairs and IBM Global Services has sparked wide-ranging discontent among users.

HP rewrites purchasing rules

A $US350 million program that swaps Hewlett-Packard hardware for a slice of its customer's action is poised to benefit a number of Australian companies.

Oz e-comm providers losing ground

The cost and complexity of creating e-business applications is soaring and Australian e-commerce solution providers are losing ground to US competitors.

NSW takes on Victoria in support for startups

Vying with Victoria for the title of Australia's e-commerce champion, NSW has established an advisory board studded with leading IT figures to stimulate the growth of startup companies nationally.

Storm brews over Olympic Web ads

A storm may be brewing because US companies have won special rights to pursue advertising space on the official Sydney 2000 Olympics Web site.
Alone among corporate sponsors of national Olympic committees, US companies have been given the opportunity to advertise on the site along with sponsors from the host country, Australia.

Australian banks lag on internet services

E-commerce specialists are frustrated by what they claim is a foot-dragging attitude to internet services by Australia's banks.
Philip McCrea, who moderates the influential Internet Commerce Association mailing list, says banks are slow to recognise the internet as a business enabler.

Qld budgets extra $100M for IT&T

Queensland this week set aside about $100 million for IT&T initiatives in its record $16.8 billion state budget for 1999-2000.

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