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.

S4i Systems, a global document and disk management software provider for IBM Systems i, has appointed a new director of marketing and channel development in a bid to further expand the awareness and recognition of the company.

Australian hotspot provider WiFiZone has chosen eintellego to rollout new firmware and architecture for its Internet hotspot platform.

The BBC in the UK has reported that it has easily acquired its own botnet controlling thousands of home computers as part of an investigation into global cybercrime.

Hewlett Packard has appointed a new man to drive its sales effort for enterprise servers and storage systems in the South Pacific region.
 

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).
 

Many of Australia’s largest businesses and organisations have a ‘near enough is good enough’ attitude when it comes to addressing business risk, according to the findings of a research report just released.

The number of people using mobile banking and related services worldwide is forecast to grow from 20 million users in 2008 to a whopping 913 million by 2014.

Responding to what it says is growing market concern over the potential for data loss, CSC, a global provider of technology-enabled solutions and services, has launched a data loss prevention (DLP) service in collaboration with Symantec, to identify, monitor and proactively protect confidential data.

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.

Almost daily there’s more news about the devastating impact the worldwide economic downturn is having on all business sectors, including the technology industry where the latest report reveals a big drop in mobile phone shipments.

Law firm Freehills has announced a roll out of BigHand a digital dictation workflow system to more than1,000 staff  in its Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane offices, with the Singapore office to follow later this month.

BitDefender is offering a free tool for consumers that will disinfect all versions of Downadup – or  the Conficker worm as it’s commonly known – which the security firm says has swept across the globe infecting 15 million computers worldwide.

BMC Software, with worldwide revenues of $1.86 billion, is boosting its business development efforts in the Australian and New Zealand markets and says it’s confident of growth in its Australian business despite the tough economic conditions.

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 ‘international business elite’ are increasingly accessing the Internet while on the move, with a growing need for more flexibility to view television content on their laptops as well as on their desktop computers and mobile devices.

Trans Tasman supplier of transport and logistics solutions, TransLogix, has implemented an enterprise-wide 3PL (3rd party logistics) warehouse system for New Zealand’s Maxwell Group of Logistics Companies.
 

Schoolchildren, their parents and teachers are about to get a kit to help them combat the increasing problem of cyberbullying.