Government elections and a disruption in service to a major client led to a drop of five per cent in DWS Advanced Business Solution’s (ASX:DWS) earnings before interest tax depreciation amortisation (EBITDA) to $12.77 million during the first half of the 2010/2011 financial year.
The $60 million sale of AAPT’s consumer division to iiNet (ASX:IIN) led to a loss of $NZ7 million ($A5.33 million) to Telecom NZ's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for the first half of the financial year, New Zealand's incumbent telco has reported.
With the apparent increased frequency of naturally disasters, communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has suggested Telstra should consider the use of fibre, rather than copper, to reconnect customers affected by Cyclone Yasi and the January floods.
Traffic, parking and public safety services company, Tenix Solutions, will move from mainframe infrastructure to a new Microsoft technology stack under a major IT program with the Victorian Department of Justice.
Subdued transactional revenues have resulted in Computershare (ASX:CPU) experiencing an overall drop in revenue of 3.8 per cent to $US781 million for the half year ended 31 December 2010, a figure the Australian investor services company claims is in line with company expectations.
IT job advertisements have experienced another drop throughout the month of January, most significantly in flood ravaged Queensland, according to the latest Advantage Job Index.
Telstra will restore mobile services in Queensland within 24 hours following the damage caused by Cyclone Yasi in the far north of the state.
The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) is well on the way to completing the first stage of its automatic electoral enrolment project, in an effort to ensure an accurate and up-to-date electoral roll for the impending state election on 26 March this year.
The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) has drastically expanded the reach of its e-voting project, iVote, which is now predicted to exceed initial expectations of 15,000 users on polling day, 26 March.
National ICT Australia (NICTA), in conjunction with Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), has released new software aimed at researchers, developers and manufacturers that has the ability to protect computer hardware from failure or being attacked.
Australia’s IT jobs market has experienced a number of peaks and troughs in the last few months, however according to recruitment firm, Randstad, there will be strong demand for certain skills in the coming year.
The IT jobs market has significantly slumped over the holiday period, falling further than the wider jobs market, which itself experienced the largest fall in job ads in 18 months, according to recruitment firm, Advantage Professional.
Like many not-for-profit organisations, the Smith Family has faced its fair share of challenges during the process of modernising its business to meet the needs of its stakeholders.
The Federal Government is on the hunt for a partner for the rollout of its Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) program.
The Victorian Government’s shared services IT agency, CenITex has opted for global software provider, BMC for its operations monitoring and management platform.