The full financial horror of the Australian Customs Services' massive Cargo Management Reengineering (CMR) Integrated Cargo System project was revealed last night at the Senate Estimates hearing.
Any IT manager that has suffered the wrath of customers and staff during an unforseen outage should spare a thought for Telstra's battle-hardened head of network services, Michael Lawrey. Yet having endured Telstra's pillorying in the mainstream media over the Big Pond e-mail "brown out", Lawrey is surprisingly frank about what went wrong and why.
It may be old, and it is definitely green screen but IBM AS/400 and iSeries users will be demanding straight answers from PeopleSoft about where their former JD Edwards (JDE) ERP application World is headed when the vendor's top brass fronts user group meetings in Sydney and Melbourne next week.
With the Spam Act now before the Senate, Labor has called into question proposed search and seizure provisions the Australian Communications Authority [ACA] may be given under the new bill.
Only months after leaving Westpac as CIO and a brief stint heading up Meta Group's Executive Directions corporate mentoring program, Mary Ann Maxwell has secured the top regional job at the analyst firm.
In a significant departure from the growing trend to consolidate and standardise enterprise applications, PeopleSoft has revealed it will market its enterprise learning management (ELM) system as a stand-alone product.
From the depths of an inner Sydney cigar lounge, Linux vendor Red Hat has launched its biggest assault on the enterprise operating system market to date, rolling out three new upgrades aimed squarely at stealing market share away from Unix users operating on Sun platforms.
Novell's new Asia-Pacific CIO Sam Gennaoui says contractors have to be brought to book - on the payroll.
One of the largest software developments in Australia's economic history is on hold again - much to the relief of industry.
Doctors are sick of being stuck in the waiting room as the federal government makes up its mind on Health IT, according to the chairman of the Australian Medical Association's (AMA) expert advisory panel on IT Allan Zemit.
Linking natural speech recognition technology to transactional systems has long been thought a risky business, however Australia's largest multi-client service agency Centrelink says it finally has got the formula right - up to a point.
IT managers can breathe a little easier in the knowledge that corporate data held or transmitted by hosted ISP services is to be off limits to private investigators under a Cybercrime Code of Practice developed by the Internet Industry Association (IIA) that will be ratified at the end of this month.
Australian ISPs are at the coalface of the anti-spam legislation that is before Parliament.
Telstra's $600 million fire sale of allegedly bad debt has again returned to haunt it. Complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) have soared to another all-time high.
The Australian Defence Force's ambition to acquire a network centric warfare (NCW) capability is gaining momentum, with Department of Defence CIO Patrick Hannan revealing final NCW conceptual paperwork will be ready within eight to 12 weeks.