ANZ network grinds as cuts loom
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's teller machine network ground to a halt today, amidst unrelated concern over job cuts looming at the financial giant.
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's teller machine network ground to a halt today, amidst unrelated concern over job cuts looming at the financial giant.
The Australian government hopes to make its national e-security alert service useful to Australian businesses by outsourcing its provider of threat information.
Technology has outpaced legal system's ability to regulate its use in issues of privacy and fair use rights, says Australian High Court judge.
Around 800 Australian mid-level managers at ANZ Bank will have lost their jobs by Christmas; and while technology staff were included in the cull, the bank has refused to disclose numbers.
Microsoft and PBL's online joint operation ninemsn has lost its chief operating officer Nick Spooner after the company reportedly decided to shed the role completely.
National Australia Bank has dismissed as "incorrect" rumours that technology services giant Accenture was making a pitch to replace disgraced Indian competitor Satyam in the bank's operations.
A survey of the best places to work in Scandinavia has found Microsoft topping the list more than once, with fellow tech companies both large and small not far behind.
Fujitsu has made its second Australian acquisition in two months, buying Australian SAP consultancy, Supply Chain Consulting.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia subsidiary Bankwest today confirmed it would cut at least "a handful" of IT staff as part of a wider cull that has also seen the bank refrain from hiring an additional 50 IT contractors over the past few months.
Aussie IT services firm SMS Technology and Management today revealed it had shed 167 staff between June 2008 and the end of the calendar year.