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Ex-IDC benchmarking expert joins Tripoint Managed Services
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology people

Category: Shakers & Breakers - People

2007-04-01 06:25:19
Tripoint Corporation, an Australian IT services company, has appointed industry expert Nick Davies as Business Development Manager, Tripoint Managed Services. Formerly running IDC’s benchmarking practice, Davies’ role with Tripoint involves growing the company’s install base of tier one applications and associated managed support services with enterprises nationally. He has more than 20 years IT industry experience in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom and joins Tripoint from IDC Australia and New Zealand, where he established the analyst group’s Benchmarking Services Practice.  Prior to his time with IDC, Davies spent four years as the sales manager of Compass Management Consulting.



Dimension Data appoints new practice managers
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology people

Category: Shakers & Breakers - People

2007-04-01 06:03:33

Dimension Data has appointed Michelle Homes and Michael Harmelink as application integration practice managers for Queensland and New South Wales, respectively. Homes began her career at the SAS Institute Australia as a technical specialist, moving on to roles including Web developer for GIO, consultant and director at TekEds and Asia-Pacific pre-sales technical consultant for Intergraph. Most recently, Homes was the business development manager at Futrix Software Australia. Harmelink has worked in senior business development roles at IBM and Alcatel in Europe, with Microsoft in Singapore and both Avenade and Snapdragon in Sydney.



One bill: first fruit of Telstra's IT transformation
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2007-04-01 04:24:39
Half a million Telstra customers will soon start receiving a single monthly bill for their Telstra services, in the first of several initiatives as Telstra progresses its five-year IT systems transformation.


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CSC extends BHP Billiton services agreement
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts

2007-03-29 06:39:50
Computer Sciences Corporation announced today it has been awarded a two-year extension to its Applications Services agreement with BHP Billiton. The extension is valued in excess of AUD$100 million.


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EDS appoints regional director of cards
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology people

Category: Shakers & Breakers - People

2007-03-29 06:29:01
Technology services group EDS has recruited Dee McGrath as Director of Cards for Australia and New Zealand. Ms McGrath was previously general manager of consumer and commercial cards for National Australia Bank where she helped steer the bank through regulatory and payment system reforms. During her six years with NAB, she was also head of marketing and product solutions in the cards division. Ms McGrath has worked in general management and marketing across multiple industries over the years and recently served on the board of Loyalty Pacific.



IBM, Oracle and others join 'service science' initiative
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Outsourcing

2007-03-28 16:50:16
The Service Research and Innovation Initiative - backed by IBM, Oracle and other major tech companies as well as some leading institutions - aims to promote 'service science.'


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ZenZui lets cellphone users zoom into the Web
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: Reuters

2007-03-27 06:20:53

NEW YORK (Reuters) - ZenZui, a newly formed company spun out of Microsoft Corp.'s technology research, aims to help cellphone subscribers easily link to their favorite Web sites, even on tiny mobile phone screens.


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Cisco CEO, John Chambers to visit Australia
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Industry

2007-03-27 00:57:34
Cisco CEO John Chambers will make his first visit to Australia in five years at the end of April and will talk up the company's latest marketing tagline: "Welcome to the Human Network".


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Wireless show to push mobile ads, shopping
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: Reuters

2007-03-25 04:31:10

NEW YORK (Reuters) - After cramming Web browsers, e-mail and music and video players into cell phones, the wireless industry is now trying to make more money by adding mobile advertising and credit-card shopping to handsets.


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Hostworks becomes DoubleClick's exclusive software reseller
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-03-25 01:37:35
Australian online outsourcing specialist, Hostworks, has been appointed the exclusive reseller of global online advertising leader DoubleClick's advertising software and hosted services to web publishers in Australia and New Zealand.


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Google aims to bolster privacy of Web surfer data
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: Reuters

2007-03-15 09:48:56

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc., faced with a mountain of data on its users' Web search habits, is taking steps to bolster consumer privacy protections in coming months, the company said late on Wednesday.


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Skype lets users offer services over net
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: ZDNet UK

2007-03-15 09:02:02

The latest version of Skype allows users to offer services over the company's internet voice and video network.


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SIPphone's GizmoSMS delivers free international SMS
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-03-15 00:41:28
Not content with offering free phone calls to selected countries, SIPphone has added free text messaging (SMS) to its service lineup.


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Red Hat pushes Enterprise Linux 5 out of the door
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Enterprise

2007-03-14 17:34:59
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was announced yesterday after two years of development, along with new support and application marketing initiatives.


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Phonecard trick costs consumers (and retailers)
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Services

2007-03-13 00:46:12
Consumers are being warned not to buy prepaid phone calling cards from calling card operator, Global Networks (Aust) Pty Ltd - whose owner has left the country - after of them failing to deliver their full value.


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Telcos could miss out on mobile Web 2.0 opportunities
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Industry

2007-03-08 15:08:09
Mobile telecommunications operators face a dilemma of whether to co-operate or compete as leading 'web 2.0' companies like Google, MySpace and Flickr move into the mobile space, according to new research by global consultancy Arthur D Little.


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Tivo, Amazon launch video download-to-TV service
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: Reuters

2007-03-08 06:10:05

NEW YORK, March 7 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc. launched on Wednesday a service that lets users watch video purchased on the Internet and sent to a home television hooked up to a TiVo set-top box.


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SMS adds 85 staff amid strong profit rise
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Technology people

Category: Shakers & Breakers - Enterprise Staffing

2007-03-05 04:54:20
IT&T services provider SMS Management & Technology (ASX:SMX) has announced a net profit after tax of $6.9m for the six months to 31 December 2006, this was a 32% increase on the first half last year. The strength of the services sector was highlighted by the company's recruiting drive for additional consultants, bringing total staff numbers up to 892.


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NEC brings U-Japan concept to Greater Springfield, Qld
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Industry

2007-03-04 02:13:37
NEC Australia has signed a deal with the Springfield Land Corporation to provide communications facilities to residents of the new development of Greater Springfield in Queensland'


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Why BitTorrent is loving the US (and not loving the rest of the world)
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: The Register

2007-03-02 03:49:15

One of the key benefits for BitTorrrent users around the world, was the parity that it achieved in bringing US content to a global audience, albeit mostly in pirated works. Now the new legal BitTorrent service, launched with fanfare this week, received an almost unanimous thumbs down for being unoriginal and unexciting, and that key benefit has been at least temporarily removed.


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