Stories by Darren Pauli

RailCorp will deploy a new identity verification system to regulate access to its human resources services pending results of a pilot.

Telstra has poured $1.2 billion to renew its technology support and services contracts with IBM and Electronic Data Systems to 2014.

CA chief John Swainson today renewed calls for CIOs must be on the executive table for businesses to save money during the global financial crisis.

Optus has today called for the structural separation of Telstra in a response to a government regulatory reform paper.

The government may face opposition from real estate developers objecting to a proposal to mandate fibre-to-the-home in greenfield sites.

As many as 46 percent of IT managers will not hire new staff, according to the New Economics of IT survey by recruitment firm Hudson, and a further 24 percent will cut contractors.

NSW Police will have access to a new forensic information database within nine months along with a suite of centralised records management and field imaging systems.

Federal and state governments have come under fire from the Australian Computer Society (ACS) for what it claims is insufficient support of the IT industry.

The federal government will borrow about half of its initial $4.7 billion investment into the National Broadband Network (NBN).

The Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO) is running facial recognition trials which will underpin biometric initiatives across the Department of Defence, Immigration and new smartcard driver's licences.

The government’s National Broadband Network (NBN) stole the lion’s share of the federal government’s IT budget, delivered in Canberra last night by Treasurer Wayne Swan, along with a swath of broadband-related initiatives, while remaining cash was tipped into existing projects.

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has extended its long-running outsourcing deal with Unisys Australia for another five years to improve its service management and handle multisource agreements.

The CSIRO has appointed a former biomedical executive to head up the organisation’s ICT arm, the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC).

Qantas has axed the CIO role amid a corporate restructure announced earlier this month.

Up to 70 percent of corporate fraud is committed by employees and occurs because of broken processes, according to consulting firm Deloitte.