Corporate Australia is going through one of its periodic re-balancing acts between contract and permanent IT staff. Both groups have been under pressure in a complicated scenario, which has seen contract rates dip and permanent staff numbers tighten.
The capture of an $800,000 contract by a software company immediately after it was rejected for a Federal Government R&D Start grant appears to expose flaws in the grant process.
Australia's sadly depleted stocks of intellectual property are being replenished as a knock-on effect of the tech wreck.
While IT was certainly on the agenda this election, neither of the two major parties seemed to understand just how much pain the IT industry is going through. Many resellers were happy with the result simply because a change of government would have meant further instability
A $40 million deal negotiated by the Western Australian Education Department will land 14,000 Acer laptops, shorn of GST, in the homes of WA teachers.
Two major infotech interest groups are at loggerheads over how much the Federal Government is buying from Australian-owned technology companies.
Hewlett Packard is quietly making fresh cuts to its Australian workforce on top of the worldwide reduction of 6,000 jobs announced last August.
One of the great survivors among Australian hardware companies, communications equipment maker Stallion Technologies, is launching itself up the food chain.
Feedback from Microsoft Windows 2000 projects reveal domain consolidation followed by server consolidation and desktop lockdown are the most popular features with customers.
Enterprise customers will pay dearly as Microsoft moves toward its long-term goal of software-as-a-service, according to Gartner analyst Alexa Bona.
Veterans of IT reseller wars know all about microscopic margins and markets turning to mush. But there's an upside to the experience: survive a tour of duty in channel country and you learn skills that come in handy wherever your career leads. Just ask Martin Lack.
NSW may be poised to break Queensland's decade-long stranglehold on one of the most prestigious conferences on Australia's IT calendar.
Ansett Australia's crisis could blow a hefty hole in forward accounts for IBM Global Services Australia.
An Australian Web site that lets people own, train and race digital horses for prizemoney is barring Australian participants because of legal fears.
Ray Shaw is used to grabbing tigers by the tail. The Brisbane businessman's repeated public revelations about unsavoury practices in the PC reseller industry have made Shaw a target for death threats and hacker attacks.
