The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is looking for tax and superannuation software developers to join a consultative group. According to the ATO, the term will soon expire for current members of the Software Developers Consultative Group (SDCG), and the organisation is interested in working with a new slew of developers.
Accenture said on Monday that it plans to add 8,000 staff in India, indicating that outsourcing to India may be on the rebound.
Sprint Nextel expects to lay off as many as 2,500 people by year’s end, on the heels of reporting that it lost 545,000 customers in its third quarter.
Adobe Systems will lay off 680 staff, or 9 percent of its workforce, in its latest move to cut costs, the company confirmed Tuesday.
Ballarat has hosted the Exploring Interests in Technology and Engineering (EXITE) camp, a four day event organised by IBM with a range of activities in the fields of IT and engineering. The camp aims to encourage greater learning of technology amongst rural Indigenous youth and encourage people in rural areas to explore the IT industry as a career.
The apparent turn in the U.S. economy may have put the brakes on the IT job loss freefall, according to some new data.
Consulting, technology and outsourcing services group, Capgemini Australia is aiming to double its domestic workforce within 24 months.
A soon to be launched global IT education-focused body within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has called for greater dialogue between the IT industry and universities.
The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) is to host a forum called Getting Inside Gen Y, a series of talks aimed at helping businesses and employers better understand the digital natives.
John Sall doesn't have to work. As one of SAS Institute's four co-founders, the 60-year old has a net worth of $US3.1 billion, according to Forbes' estimate, ranking him the 196th richest person in the world (just ahead of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Ralph Lauren).
Thanks to the economic downturn, former employees of high-tech companies are staying in touch by joining alumni groups to find jobs, business opportunities and to socialize.
In a sign of the growing link between universities and business, the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) has signed on to teach SAP skills to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
A recent Australian ICT graduate survey indicates that 70 per cent of respondents wish they had done more hands-on work experience while studying, highlighting the importance employers place on practical industry experience.
Queensland Health has appointed acting CIO, Ray Brown, as its new CIO as the government body moves to implement the State’s e-health agenda.
Cisco Systems gave Chairman and CEO John Chambers a discretionary incentive payment of more than US$2 million for the company's 2009 fiscal year, despite the fact that net income fell nearly 24 percent from the previous year on sales that were down almost 9 percent.