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Four out of five small businesses in Australia say they’re not ready for the introduction of the new workplace laws, many of which come into effect on 1 July this year.

SMS Management & Technology (ASX: SMX) has won a multi-million dollar contract with consumer watchdog, Choice Australia, for its soon to be launched GROCERYchoice online shopping service.
 

Australian listed IT services company CSG (ASX:CSV) is opening a new office  in South Australia following its selection for the South Australian Government’s Distributed Computing Support Services (DCSS) register of outsourcing contract providers.

There’s been a warning that publication of the Federal Government’s “black list” of pornographic and violent websites has fatally damaged its proposed compulsory Internet filtering regime.
 

Sony Australia is to roll out the Australian Government’s voluntary energy labelling scheme across its range of BRAVIA LCD televisions.

The ACS has attacked the federal government for overlooking the ICT industry as a critical source of economic stimulus and growth for Australia’s economy and called on the government to give a dedicated commitment to a national strategy on the development of the industry.

The Commonwealth Ombudsman has selected Objective to provide an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution to support the integrity and transparency of their investigation processes.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has commended the federal government on ‘its visionary plans’ to provide up to $83 million to early stage start-up companies bringing promising new technologies and services to the market.

The New South Wales Government has selected Netcat as a specialist web content management (WCM) software provider to its agencies with the company’s inclusion in the government’s Information and Asset Management Systems Panel (IAMS).

A report on the Crikey website today claims that all is not well at CenITex, the Victorian Government agency which provides IT services to several state departments, with a Crikey 'tipster' claiming that there hasn’t been a full data backup at CenITex in more than a year.

Verizon Business will provide network and data services at U.S. Department of Defense installations around the world under a new contract awarded by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
 

The ICT industry in Queensland has announced a 100,000 jobs lifeline for Queenslanders, including the creation of 30,000 new jobs on top of maintaining the industry’s existing 70,000 jobs in the state.

Telstra has been quick to respond to criticism of the capabilities of DOCSIS 3.0, and HFC networks in general, with a blog post on Nowwearetalking from its CTO, Hugh Bradlow.

Communications minister Stephen Conroy told the Senate during question time on Wednesday that a decision on the NBN was "just weeks away".

Objective Corporation is to provide an enterprise content management (ECM) system to ServiceFirst, an agency supplying shared corporate services to New South Wales government clients.

The tough economic conditions have slowed growth in ICT vertical markets in Australia with IDC today revising its forecasts down and now predicting the industry will reach a value of $46,939 million by 2012, not $47,830 million as forecast last year. But, there’s some upside on the horizon, with government forecasted to experience the fastest increase in ICT investment in the next few years as it acts to stimulate the economy.

If you’re lucky enough to be offered a job in the Australian ICT sector at the moment the salary you might be offered is more than likely to be somewhat less than you would have got before the economic downturn hit us, that is unless the job’s in Adelaide or Sydney.