Telstra unveils super-fast cable broadband with Melbourne first in line to get the service.

Ovum’s Principal Analyst for ICT Services and Sourcing, Asia Pacific, Jens Butler, questions whether this a winning deal for Fujitsu.

In 2004, Telstra bought KAZ for $333 million and now it is off-loading it to Fujitsu at a greatly reduced price.

Overall IT budgets have been cut according to a recent survey but the problem is a high percentage of organisations only use a manual process to work out where these cuts should be made so they are flying blind.

The rumours are true, Telstra's CEO Sol Trujillo will leave the company on 30 June.

Telstra has been a frontrunner at the Mobile Global Congress being held in Barcelona this week with a number of groundbreaking stories including a Guinness World Records record for the fastest mobile broadband service in the world. It has also announced a mobile user interface which is an Australian first with Microsoft for selected Windows Mobile devices.

IT storage professionals across Australia will have the chance to listen to international backup guru W Curtis Preston when he visits our shore for the first time in April as the keynote speaker at Storage Decisions Australia 2009.

A recent survey found there is no better time to launch into online business with online business owners saying they are more confident, more profitable and are more likely to be planning business growth.

Telstra today expanded its presence in China with the acquisition of controlling interests in two of the country’s leading mobile content and online music businesses. The acquisitions accelerate Telstra’s plans to achieve AU$1 billion in revenue with strong margins and cash flow from its Chinese media assets by 2013.

Microsoft today confirmed that it had agreed on a coordinated procurement arrangement as part of the federal government’s Coordinated Procurement Contracting initiatives. Microsoft is the first vendor in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry to reach such an agreement with the federal government.

A new Australian survey conducted by Compuware shows that healthcare IT outages compromise patient safety and disrupt clinicians.

In an unexpected move that could be a sign of the times, Hutchison and Vodafone will merge their telecom operations to form a 50:50 joint venture

UsabilityOne reports that Federal governent websites prove to be inaccessible for some Australians. 

Document creation and generation without the need of the IT department has to be a winner. Intelledox has released its SaaS version.

CSIRO is helping to address an issue vexing the health system worldwide — the need for quality, accurate information in electronic health records.