IBM mum on local job cuts
IBM has kept mum on whether the company's alleged 4200 staff lay-offs in the United States will hit Australia.
Stories by Darren Pauli
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World's first 2Tb drive launched in Australia
The world's first 2TB 3.5 inch hard drive will hit Australian shores within a week in what the manufacturer claims is the highest capacity disk of its kind.
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Security networks send spammers underground
Botnets will employ more obfuscated control techniques including the use of peer-to-peer networks during 2009, according to security researchers, following the [[artid:556517764|McColo datacentre take-down|new]] last year.
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Aussie Microsoft staff safe from cuts: for now
More than 1000 Microsoft Australia employees have dodged the axe amid ongoing global staff layoffs.
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NBN experts submit regulatory review to govt
A six-week review into the regulatory environment for Australia's looming National Broadband Network (NBN) has been completed and received by the federal government.
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Telstra’s NBN champion calls it quits
Telstra's top network chief Greg Winn has resigned less than a month after the telco was banned by government from bidding on the National Broadband Network (NBN).
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ANSTO gets positive reaction from ITIL implementation
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has implemented an award-winning Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) deployment to improve internal IT service and performance.
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ANZ loses former tech chief to heart attack
Former ANZ IT chief Mike Grime passed away after suffering a heart attack in his home in France last Friday. He was 62 years old.
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DIAC culls 60 contractors for permanent staff
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) cut 60 ICT contractor positions for permanent staff following recommendations in the Gershon Review.
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Experts split over idle fibre
Analysts have locked horns over the need for Telstra's dark fibre to be integrated into the government's $10 billion National Broadband Network (NBN).
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Industry peers slam govt file sharing filter
A federal government move to stamp-out illegal file sharing via the national Internet content filtering scheme will be impossible, experts say, without blanket ban on peer-to-peer traffic.
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Conroy scolds Telstra for failing NBN
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has admonished Telstra for failing to bid for the National Broadband Network (NBN), and said its executives will now have to face up to shareholders.
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Telstra banned from NBN
Telstra’s broadband hopes have been shot to pieces following a government decision to exclude it from the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender.
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Protests make clean-feed Internet a mess for govt
Protests erupted across Australian capital cities on Saturday in opposition to the government's $70 million national clean feed Internet scheme, which will impose blanket content filtering for all Web connections.
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Industry baffled over clean-feed internet pilot
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) participating in live trials of the national Internet content filtering scheme say the tests will be undermined by a government decision to test the “clean-feed” blacklist under watered-down conditions.
