Stories by Darren Pauli

Monash Uni looks at shared services initiative

Monash University is rolling out a shared services initiative set to strengthen buying power with standardised hardware and software platforms and improve IT services for its 50,000 students.

Telstra, Woolworths in talks over telecoms contract

Telstra and Woolworths are in discussions over a large telecommunications contract previously handled by the telco but now awarded to IBM, according to an internal source.

Optus payment system crashes after software failure

Optus customers were unable to pay bills for four hours yesterday after its billing system crashed.

NBN Co retail legislation could pass July

Legislation that could allow the National Broadband Network (NBN) operator to sell retail services could be in place as early as July.

GoTalk refutes ACMA court case

GoTalk has slammed the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) over a law suit taken against it for breaches of the Do Not Call Register Act.

Oz IT shops can't change business culture: Gartner

If Business Intelligence (BI) projects made difficult because business doesn’t understand technology – it is worse still, according to Gartner because "business doesn’t understand itself".

People Telecom to refund misled customers

People Telecom will issue refunds to customers who were signed up by its door-to-door sales and telemarketers as part of a legal undertaking by the Australian Competition and Consumer and Commission (ACCC).

ACMA takes GoTalk to court over alleged breaches

The communications watchdog has filed a Federal Court action against telco GoTalk for alleged breaches of the Do Not Call Register Act.

Aussies scammed out of $70m online

Australians lost more than $70 million through online scams last year, according to a Federal Government report.

PM considers Internet Ombudsman

The Federal Government will consider introducing an Internet Ombudsman to remove inappropriate material online.

Exetel threatens TIO with lawsuit

Exetel has threatened the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) with legal action after refuting 300 of the 306 complaints lodged against it last year.

NICTA offers free elefant

An element of the backbone software behind the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA)’s traffic monitoring toolkit has been released as open source by National ICT Australia (NICTA). The machine learning system, dubbed Elefant — Efficient learning, large-scale inference and optimisation toolkit — allows large amounts of data to be automatically analysed, interpreted and summarised.

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