Monday, April 6, 2009

IT News HeadLines (AustralianIT) 06/04/2009


AustralianIT.com.au
Action on national e-security
E-SECURITY will be brought under the federal Government's umbrella as it seeks to boost protection against a surge in "foreign" spying on private and public networks.
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Funds, watchdog for health
NSW'S troubled public hospitals will get a massive injection of technology funding and an independent e-health watchdog, as the Government adopts the recommendations of special commissioner Peter Garling.
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Acacia the hot tip for NBN
BARRING last-minute legal challenges or natural disasters, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy are expected to announce the winner of the $15 billion National Broadband Network project today.
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Telstra blows its tech budget
TELSTRA may have suffered a cost blowout as large as $1 billion on the customer and billing software platform at the heart of its IT transformation.
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Thieves blast GroovyChannel
AUSTRALIAN software developer GroovyChannel's proposed $US7 million ($9.7 million) capital raising went off with a bang when thieves blasted open the company's safe in an apparent attempt to steal the source code for its accelerated SQL database technology.
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Satyam scandal benefits rival
THE Satyam outsourcing scandal has delivered a number of customers to rival Wipro, according to Wipro chairman Azim Premji.
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Two years for ATO desktop hunt
THE tax office's search for a new desktop services provider -- a contract worth up to $60 million -- will take more than two years.
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Google data centre in doubt
TOP Google executives charged with building a local data centre for the search engine giant have postponed a visit to Australia until after the federal Government's $15 billion national broadband network contract announcement.
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Green power for university
VICTORIA University has moved to cut its power consumption by rationalising its servers into two green data centres.
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Cisco keeps hunting in slump
CISCO Systems was ready to pick up the pace of mergers and acquisitions as technology company values slumped, its top dealmaker Ned Hooper said.
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