The Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs has signed a $200 million, three-year deal with IBM as part of its $495 million Systems for People program.

Convicted 24 year-old UK super-spammer, Peter Francis-MacRae, who was sentenced to six years jail in late 2005 for operating a A$4 million email-phishing scam, has failed to win an appeal to quash charges of fraud and concealing criminal property.

Vignette has announced a new version of its web content management suite, promising enterprises greater power for the dynamic delivery of personalised, persuasive online content.

After 71 days of the Cole Inquiry, the Australian Wheat Board has handed over documents regarding the payment of ‘trucking fees’ to Iraqis.

Brocade has announced a flurry of enhanced products and services this week to address new storage area networking (SAN) needs and file data management challenges.

Incipient has finalised beta testing for its Network Storage Platform (iNSP,) a product that comes as the result of $US79 million in venture funding.

A new survey by Australia’s InterSystems has found that 50 percent of IT projects that attempt to enhance or integrate business applications fail, while 27 percent of the cost of implementing new applications goes towards making them compat...

Objective Corporation has had a win with the Townsville Port Authority, who has recently implemented its enterprise content management system to increase its information management capabilities.

The battle between Sony’s Blu Ray and Toshiba HD-DVD next generation optical disc formats could be over before the two have even touched gloves, thanks to a breakthrough by Britain’s New Medium Enterprises.

Academics in the US have been awarded US$750,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation, to undertake a three year study into the development process of open source software.