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Telstra's Burgess heading home

18 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | AAP

Telstra's head of public policy and communications Phil Burgess is leaving the company and will return to the US, due to illness in his family.

Internode names new CEO

18 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Michael Crawford

Internet service provider Internode has named Patrick Tapper as its new chief executive officer following a management restructure.

Pressure on Telstra to keep lid on costs

15 Aug 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Tracy Lee

Telstra Corp will have to show a steady stream of cost savings over the next two years if it is to hit its earnings margin target for 2010 as capital expenditure rises.

Currency woe for Integrated Research

15 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

Listed software and voice over IP group Integrated Research Limited has blamed the Australian dollar's surge against the greenback and the pound for restricting it to a modest 6 per cent lift in net profit for 2007-08, but says 2009 should see continuing strong growth in sales of its PROGNOSIS server performance management software.

ASG lifts on robust sales

15 Aug 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Ben Woodhead

Outsourcer ASG Group has shrugged off concerns that economic uncertainty could put a squeeze on IT spending, pledging strong growth as it chases about $700 million of potential deals.

Growth to continue, says ASG

14 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

Western Australia-based IT services group ASG has forecast big growth in earnings revenue and profit for 2008-09, as it announced a 28 per cent lift in net income for 2007-08.

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ralph Norris

Norris reassures on cuts, offshoring

14 Aug 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Julian Bajkowski and Chris Jenkins

Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive Ralph Norris has talked down the chances of local job cuts or sending large chunks of the institution's technology work overseas.

Milestone missed but target stays

14 Aug 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | BEN WOODHEAD

Telstra yesterday confessed it had fallen well short of its mid-year goal of moving 5 million customers over to new billing systems that it is building as part of a multibillion-dollar information technology transformation.

Broadband delay costs GDP: chief

14 Aug 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | DAVID CROWE

The federal government's slow start on building a national broadband network has cost the economy $200 million a month, Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo claimed yesterday, in a sign of his growing frustration over lengthy delays to the network timetable.

CBA already moving on core - Norris

13 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ralph Norris says the bank is two years into its $580 million program to overhaul its core banking systems and has already tested some improvements in key systems.

Telstra chief operations officer Greg Winn

At $11.2m, Winn first among Amigos

13 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

Telstra chief operations officer Greg Winn has moved into a different class to his colleagues at the top echelon of Telstra's management, close to doubling his 2006-07 pay cheque to take home more than $11 million in 2007-08.

Telstra profit up 13.5pc

13 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | AAP

Telstra has posted a 13.5 per cent rise in annual profit, after its broadband and mobile revenue lifted and the telco slowed declines in its traditional fixed line earnings.

CBA cuts $57m from IT costs

13 Aug 2008 | MIS.Online | Chris Jenkins

The Commonwealth Bank has trimmed $57 million from its IT costs for the 2007-08 year, but seen the value of capitalised software on its books jump by almost the same amount over the period.

Microsoft's challenge on Apple due Zune

13 Aug 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Ben Woodhead

Microsoft is pursuing exclusive mobile television and film deals with major Hollywood studios as the company tries to break Apple's iPod-led stranglehold on the emerging portable media market.

ipernica says decision close on US patent

13 Aug 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Ben Woodhead

Listed intellectual property assertion firm ipernica has said a long-awaited US Patent and Trademark Office decision affecting a lengthy dispute with the world's second-largest software company, Oracle Corporation, should come by the end of the year. ipernica, in association with Melbourne-based software developer Financial Systems Technology has pursued Oracle over the alleged infringement of a number of FST's patents since 2004. ipernica's managing director, Graham Griffiths, said that the office was now close to a decision on the validity of the patent after Oracle's decision to lodge a claim of prior art.

Doctors back privacy moves on e-health

13 Aug 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Julian Bajkowski

Proposals to introduce uniform legislation across Australia that would govern the use of electronic health and medical records have received backing from clinicians and state health-care providers, smoothing the way for a national scheme to be approved by the Council of Australian Governments in October.

Seeking the missing millions

13 Aug 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Matthew Drummond and Nina Wan

Flight Centre paid more than $5 million to a company for thousands of electronic terminals that were never delivered, in a transaction which a liquidator suspects may have been a sham.

Reckon's niche defies sector troubles

12 Aug 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Julian Bajkowski

Local mid-market accounting and professional services software maker Reckon has maintained its conservative but solid growth, posting earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of $9.4 million for the half year ended June 30, 2008, a 15 per cent rise from the previous corresponding period.