e-pay ready for China tilt

Electronic payments software and services provider e-pay has shed its lacklustre operations in Serbia and Indonesia.

ACTU steps up Telstra fight

The ACTU and individual unions will go to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission tomorrow to oppose a Telstra plan to shift workers onto contracts.

300 IBM jobs for Ballarat

Three hundred jobs will be created at a new information technology centre in the Victorian regional city of Ballarat.

A little ray of sunshine

Amid the gloom of reporting season there's a ray of sunshine for the information technology industry - many of the nation's largest companies aren't showing any inclination to cut computing costs.

Privacy code comes with warning

The federal Privacy Commissioner's new voluntary guide for businesses dealing with privacy breaches comes complete with a warning that the voluntary code could become mandatory if it is not put into practice.

IBA profit slides

Health sector information technology provider IBA Health Group has reported an 36.35 per cent slide in annual net profit due to several one-off charges.

Poached Commander staff help lift Data#3

Brisbane-based information technology services group Data#3 has grown net profit by 26 per cent over 2007-08 and refugees from collapsed rival Commander have been credited with helping spur the company's performance.

Aust, UK, lift realestate.com.au

Online property advertising company Realestate.com.au has lifted its annual profit by 48.3 per cent and says it continues to look for opportunities to enter new markets.

Telstra to Terria - no thanks, lovey

Telstra has rebuked an offer of "substantial equity" from its main rival for the federal government's national broadband network, saying it's not interested in being "lovey dovey".

Boom states shield CSG

Computer services firm CSG yesterday shrugged off concerns that economic uncertainty could cut information technology spending, reporting a rise in net profit of more than 70 per cent for the 2008 financial year.

Huon move lifts IAG's NZ costs

IAG's New Zealand business clocked up $13m in costs in 2007-08 as part of a migration to new core information systems that the company has been wrestling with since 2002.

A fattening thin client market

The thin client market for the Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region continues to grow significantly, pointing to a solid future for this form of 'lean and mean' computing for large enterprises.

eServGlobal banking on mobile boom

Telephony billing software developer eServGlobal is banking on booming mobile phone uptake in Asia, South America and the Middle East to drive revenue growth and shelter the company from turbulence in the world's developed economies.

Policy pipeline forces Canberra's hand

Listed IT services group Oakton says the uncertainty around federal government IT spending is lifting.

3 signs for Next G roaming

Hutchison Telecommunications plans to extend network coverage for its 3 mobile brand to areas covering 96 per cent of the population by the first half of next year. The plan includes an agreement that will allow Hutchison customers to use parts of Telstra's Next G Network.

Union push for IBM beachhead

IBM Australia faces the possibility of legally protected industrial action at its high-security national operations centre in Sydney as some employees push for better pay and conditions that would give unions a beachhead at the IT giant.

Telstra fails to find taker for Kaz

Telstra has abandoned plans to sell the Kaz computer outsourcing business it acquired for $333 million in 2004 and will instead attempt to integrate the unit more closely with its other services operations.