Stories by: Helen Han

Australia's IT unemployment rate is 77 percent higher than the national jobless average but incredibly, the rate is an improvement on the year before, according to the Australian Computer Society's (ACS) 2003 ICT Employment Survey.

US antispam vendor Brightmail opened its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Sydney today and launched its suite of spam-blocking technology.

In a scenario similar to Microsoft's dominance in the desktop space, Cisco's stranglehold in the networking market has created a new form of vendor lock-in for IT managers.

Integ Communications tapped into a low-cost solution to improve its financial operations while avoiding the budget burden of an expensive enterprise resource management package.

Hewlett-Packard has signed a $1.8 million contract for fault management services for its telephony systems and expects to save around $360,000 in communications maintenance and support costs through the deal.

IT managers are unconsciously falling prey to a new form of vendor lock-in, whereby control of IT infrastructure through outsourced management of non-core IT functions is wrested away from the business under the guise of 'on-demand' computing services, a senior Gartner analyst has warned.

A massive wave of IT redundancies will hit Australian shores in the next few years with local vendor-based jobs moving to offshore outsourcing markets on a "substantial" scale, a senior Gartner researcher has warned.

Software pricing is too complex and too costly and has created a growing tide of resentment among end users who favour a flat annual fee over per-processor pricing models.

IBM has announced it will acquire all of Lend Lease and Telstra's shares in the IBM Global Services (IBM GSA) Australia joint venture.

Renewable energy company, Hydro Tasmani,a has outsourced its whole IT environment to technology consulting and integration firm, LogicaCMG, under a multimillion-dollar, three-year agreement.