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• Carbon tax: Silver lining to taxing times

  By Hafizah Osman | 28 May, 2012 07:57

  Channel businesses should be planning on how to deal with forthcoming Carbon Tax now, according to experts.

• Apple victorious in iphone5.com domain dispute

  By Gregg Keizer | 18 May, 2012 02:42

  Apple has apparently won control of the iphone5.com domain, according to changes in a Web record of the URL.

• Australia's top 10 trends for enterprise IT in 2012: CSC (part 2)

  By Hafizah Osman | 07 May, 2012 17:05

  The uptake of mobility has resulted in desktops and laptops becoming more old-fashioned and is draining its productivity, according to Hayward.

• Australia's top 10 trends for enterprise IT in 2012: CSC (part 1)

  By Hafizah Osman | 07 May, 2012 11:41

  Consumer technology disruptions will determine business agendas even within large enterprises, CSC chief technology and innovation officer, Bob Hayward, said.

• HCL CEO Vineet Nayar: Outsourcing is dead, and there's nothing innovative in cloud technology

  By John Gallant | 01 May, 2012 02:29

  The customer always comes first. Except when it comes to HCL, the $6 billion Indian outsourcing -- make that co-sourcing -- giant led by CEO Vineet Nayar, who literally wrote the book on a philosophy known as 'employees first, customer second.' In this latest installment of our CEO Interview Series, Nayar spoke with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how that philosophy is fueling HCL's rapid growth and why more CIOs ought to consider adopting it. Nayar also discussed how HCL has set its sights beyond competing with other Indian outsourcers like Infosys and Wipro and is squarely targeting what he believes are the many unhappy customers of services giants like IBM, Accenture and CSC. The outspoken Nayar took shots at the 'fear psychosis' created by services firms in trying to peddle their offerings and used a barnyard epithet to describe public cloud computing, which he claims isn't ready for prime time. He also outlined HCL's aggressive plans for hiring locally in the U.S. and Europe, and defended the company's use of the controversial H-1B visa program. In addition, Nayar talked about the new goals for IT departments in 2012 and beyond, and explained why treating mobile as a technology 'misses the point.'

• Power your mobile strategy with a cloud

  By Bill Claybrook | 20 March, 2012 22:27

  Mobile devices will soon be driving cloud computing -- and vice versa. Here's why: It's very sensible to use a private cloud for security, management and other aspects of mobile applications. But getting there will require planning and investment by IT.

• Analysis: What the Cloud really means for your IT job

  By Brandon Butler | 14 March, 2012 05:43

  Depending on which survey or story you read, the Cloud can be either a good thing for IT workers and their job security, or it can be terrifying.

• Empired assembles energy and resources "dream team"

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 22 February, 2012 13:05

  ASX-listed IT service provider, Empired Limited (ASX:EPD), has brought on four new executive and senior management appointments as it looks to substantially up the ante in terms of growth.

• CSC names Mike Lawrie CEO, ending four-month search

  By Peter Sayer | 08 February, 2012 23:28

  CSC ended four months of speculation about the identity of its next CEO late Tuesday, announcing that Mike Lawrie, currently CEO of British IT service company Misys, will become CEO of CSC by the end of March. He has already taken a seat on CSC's board.

• CSC appoints new president and CEO: Mike Lawrie

  By Nermin Bajric | 08 February, 2012 12:01

  Rodney F. Chase named non-executive chairman of board of directors

• Plans to migrate LAPD to Google's cloud apps dropped

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 December, 2011 22:07

  After more than two years of trying, the City of Los Angeles has abandoned plans to migrate its police department to Google's hosted email and office application platform saying the service cannot meet certain FBI security requirements.

• Security roundup: Security concerns slam Google Apps rollout in LA; 760 companies and research institutions hacked?

  By Ellen Messmer | 17 December, 2011 06:28

  The Los Angeles City Council has voted to halt efforts to bring the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) into the Google Apps services used by 17,000 other Los Angeles employees.

• Blue Coat sold to private equity firm for £830m

  By IDG reporters | 10 December, 2011 20:11

  WAN optimisation and web security vendor Blue Coat is set to be acquired by a group led by Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm, for $1.3 billion (£830 million).

• NextDC gets go-ahead to build S1 datacentre

  By Mike Gee | 14 November, 2011 13:58

  City of Ryde approves energy efficient datacentre for Macquarie Park

• CSC says SEC investigation extends to Australian business

  By Jeremy Kirk | 10 November, 2011 04:45

  An investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission has been expanded to include Computer Sciences Corp.'s business in Australia, the company said on Wednesday.