In a recent interview, iTWire asked Jon Callas, currently CTO at Entrust to reflect upon his time at Apple and his encounters with Steve Jobs.

Less than a week after Westpac managing director Gail Kelly announced that the bank was planning to move to a “best sourcing” model the bank has announced to the Financial Services Union that it’s slashing 188 jobs as a result of a restructure of the IT department.

Guess which is the most hairy chested sector to work in as an ICT professional? Clue: it’s not mining and it’s not defence.

The stories about the complete lack of a number plate on Steve Job's car are many and varied.  But we can finally reveal the truth.

One of the truly great programmers of the last century and a man who maintained that simplicity was the best way to tackle the task has died.

The get rich quick era of the ICT sector is well and truly over. Although Australian ICT salaries increased 4 per cent in the year to May, which was an improvement over their performance in 2010, it was shy of the 4.3 per cent salary improvement enjoyed across the wider economy as tracked by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The acquisition of security vendor McAfee by Intel has allowed the company to maintain its strategy and add to its employee numbers.

43-year Telstra veteran and current chief operations officer Michael Rocca has resigned from Telstra, the telco revealed today, and will be replaced with IBM executive and former head of Big Blue's Global Services joint venture in Australia, Brendon Riley.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is again sick and has taken 'medical leave' to deal with the problem.  Coming so soon after his April 2009 liver transplant, the world is clearly concerned that Steve is in serious danger.  This has already had a detrimental effect on the company with stocks immediately trading down in Europe.

IT companies tend to be based on old and no longer relevant notions of management. Structures and practices need to change, an executive at a leading web company has suggested.

Out of work since February, ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker is the surprise appointment as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, replacing the disgraced Mark Hurd.

Managing Director of Nintendo Australia, Rose Lappin is moving on to new challenges.

The Games Developers’ Association of Australia (GDAA), the body that oversees the interests of companies involved in the lucrative business of games development, has now included representatives from large core studios as well as small start-ups into the mix of its steering committee.

Two veterans of mega-portals Yahoo!7 and ninemsn have formed a new Australian startup to launch online video on demand services in competition with new offerings from Telstra, FetchTV and more.

The Australian Services Union has given global computing giant IBM a deadline of 5pm today to comply with a decision handed down last week by Fair Work Australia which it says obliges the company to negotiate with the union in good faith, or it will seek further orders against the company from the Court.

The long-time leader of Telstra’s BigPond internet service provider division and current fixed line chief, Justin Milne, has reportedly resigned.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia subsidiary Bankwest has promoted one of its own to replace its chief information officer Tony Clasquin, who resigned at the end of 2009.

The Department of Defence has advertised for a sizable clutch of senior IT security staff to be part of its Australian Defence Force Computer Security Incident Response Team based in Canberra.

Technology giant IBM has dodged allegations by the Australian Services Union that it will shunt as many as 800 local jobs to offshore locations.

An Italian judge has convicted 4 Google employees of criminal defamation over a bullying video that was uploaded to Google Video by a school girl from Turin.