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Dimension Data has signed a A$1.2 million dollar multi-sourcing contract with Xstrata Technology for the provision of managed services for the company’s unified communications infrastructure.

That devil of a Conficker worm that’s never far from the surface these days is likely to cause a significant increase in spam levels over the next three months, according to a report by yet another security firm that’s closely monitoring the worm’s exploits.

European industrialist, AkzoNobel, has signed a five-year, multimillion euro contract extension with France Telecom’s Orange business services for the supply of ICT services in 55 countries, including Australia and New Zealand.

There are good opportunities for Australian utility companies to benefit from ICT innovation and investment, with ICT spending by the utilities market in Australia forecast to grow from $1,120 million last year to A$1,308 million in 2012.

In the midst of the world financial crisis, green IT still remains a top priority on the IT agenda of governments and is growing in importance for the public sector, according to a report released by Ovum after the recent G20 summit in London.

Just two weeks to the day after attacking the federal government for overlooking the ICT industry as a critical source of economic stimulus and growth for Australia’s economy, the ACS has joined the chorus of those welcoming the government’s NBN decision but with a cautionary reminder that it’s by no means all of what’s needed to kick along Australia’s digital economy.

UK retailer, Tesco, is to deploy a CRM solution from IT services vendor, RightNow, to help it improve the support provided to customers during their buying process.
 

Supposedly, Australia’s love affair with technology and gadgets stops at the office door, with many of us apparently confused by overly-complicated business software, and wasting up to five hours a week as we battle with our computers at work.

Telstra has today opened the first of 67 new business centres around Australia where it says it will provide local face-to-face help for small businesses faced with the difficulties of the economic downturn.

A survey of Australian companies by Compuware has found that 75.5% of IT budgets are being spent just "keeping the lights on" or maintaining existing IT applications, with only 24.5% spent on new IT initiatives.

A new report released today warns that the state of the global financial services industry, in the current world economic downturn, could increase the risk of potential internal and external fraud attempts in the world’s banks.

Rittal, a worldwide provider of enclosure technologies, is set to unveil a series of ‘significant innovations’ at CeBIT Sydney designed to enable organisations to maximise the efficiency and security of their data centre operations.

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.

LogiCamms, Perth-based national machine and stockyard automation specialists, is to deploy a myDIALS on-demand performance improvement platform.

Cisco and BMC Software have announced their collaboration to deliver what they call a ‘major management breakthrough’ for the new Cisco Unified Computing System.

There are some tough years ahead for vendors with IT spending by the banking sector likely to drop by more than $40 billion over the next five years and the UK expected to suffer the greatest fall as the economic downturn takes its toll on the world’s banks.

The heady rates of growth in outsourced and in-house software and systems testing services that characterised the market over the past four years are over, but there’s still growth, albeit at a much slower rate.

The National Australia Bank says the deployment of new and sophisticated speech recognition technology, to be bought from Telstra and VeCommerce, will allow its staff to spend more time focussing on the needs of the bank’s customers.

The Australian SMARTS Group, a global provider of market surveillance technology, has completed its first installation in the US stock exchange industry, with the installation of its Integrity Platform on the BATS Exchange, America’s third largest exchange.

There’s expected to be a continuation of growth in 2009 in the Unified Communication (UC) market within specific industry verticals due to ‘a much needed technology re-fresh’, according to IDC in its latest market insight report.