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26 Jun 2018 2 mins

DWS acquires Canberra-based Projects Assured in $43M deal

Transaction expands headcount to 800 staff

25 Jun 2018 3 mins

By idg news service_staff

The most notorious hacker groups

We list what's known about the perpetrators of some of the most daring cyber attacks, from wrecking nuclear equipment to complex cyber heists worth hundreds of millions of dollars

22 Jun 2018 7 mins

Security

Barracuda Networks makes Andrew Huntley A/NZ regional director

Huntley takes on newly created role

21 Jun 2018 2 mins

Frederic Viet returns to Australia as AWS strategic partner lead

Move sees Viet return to Australia from France

20 Jun 2018 2 mins

Court mulls Apple’s App Store commissions in antitrust case

The justices said they would hear Apple's appeal of a lower court's ruling that revived the proposed class-action lawsuit by iPhone buyers

20 Jun 2018 3 mins

Apple hit with $9M penalty over Aussie “Error 53” claims

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission took action against Apple in April last year

19 Jun 2018 4 mins

Amazon sells Aussies a way to beat geo-block with Prime

Tech giant has faced criticism from shoppers for a relatively thin product range and uncompetitive prices

19 Jun 2018 2 mins

Australia’s top print tech vendors see slide in shipments

Canon, HP, Epson and more saw shipments decline

19 Jun 2018 3 mins

Dreamscape Networks forks out $8.5M for Domain Name Registrar

The assets are being acquired from the privately held Domain Registration (Australia) Pty Ltd

19 Jun 2018 3 mins

Aspect Software names new A/NZ regional vice president

Manuel Karunakar joins from Verint-Systems

18 Jun 2018 2 mins

Sky Communications enters administration owing over $3.5M

Liquidators sold assets to Sky Communications Aust

18 Jun 2018 3 mins

Govt-wide software panel goes big with new products and services

The DTA has opened up the whole-of-government panel to its second category, Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) software

18 Jun 2018 4 mins

Govt terminates NEC’s multimillion-dollar biometric identity project

The contract for the project was worth up to $52 million over several years

15 Jun 2018 3 mins

GrowthOps makes $20M takeover bid for Asia Pacific Digital

GrowthOps takeover bid for Asia Pacific Digital worth $20M

15 Jun 2018 3 mins

IT Management

Australia forks out millions to keep Huawei out of Pacific undersea cable project

Huawei had planned to lay the cables for the Pacific archipelago nation

13 Jun 2018 3 mins

Thales taps Microsoft Azure Stack for defence cloud solution

The solution that is set to be jointly developed by the two groups is based on Microsoft’s Azure Stack platform

13 Jun 2018 3 mins

Thomas Duryea Logicalis nabs network deal with Melbourne’s Metro Trains

Extreme Networks is supplying the network infrastructure needed to support Metro Trains' CCTV network

13 Jun 2018 3 mins

Networking

Superloop pays $1.5M for SkyMesh broadband customers

Adds 10,000 broadband subscribers

12 Jun 2018 4 mins

Telstra claims first 4GX-lite mobile satellite small cell customer

Two satellite small cells will be installed to improve coverage in the remote area.

12 Jun 2018 3 mins

ZTE has to pay up before supply ban is scrapped

ZTE can resume business in the US, but the supply ban won't be lifted until the Chinese vendor pays US$1 billion fine and puts another US$400 million in escrow

12 Jun 2018 4 mins

Mobile

Telstra flags weekend repair work after cable cut kills services

The outages caused by the severed cables, which also affected some wholesale services, began on the morning of 6 June

8 Jun 2018 4 mins

Sydney’s Adactin Group takes on Canberra

Following several inclusions on government panels

7 Jun 2018 3 mins

IT Management

Tata Consultancy displaces Deloitte in $76.7M Transport NSW deal

Move sees Tata replace Deloitte in the delivery of services to the state government agency

7 Jun 2018 3 mins

Application infrastructure and middleware market revenue tops $881M in Australia

A shift towards digital business models is driving the revenue increase

6 Jun 2018 3 mins

Enterprise Applications

Australia Post warns employees of possible data breach after PageUp malware hit

HR software-as-a-service provider asked users to change passwords

6 Jun 2018 4 mins

SAP powers up cloud ERP play with consulting collaboration drive

The collaboration efforts were announced during the German software vendor’s Sapphire Now conference in the United States

5 Jun 2018 4 mins

WA integrator strikes CRM deal with Western Power

Revenues arising from the contract are expected to be up to $550,000

31 May 2018 2 mins

MYOB scraps Reckon acquisition

Pulls the acquisition off the table citing lengthy regulatory delays

31 May 2018 3 mins

Australia serves up over $2B in revenues for DXC Technology

The latest results top off a lengthy period of acquisition and consolidation for the multinational IT services giant

31 May 2018 3 mins

Cloud Sherpas talent named CEO of Aussie IT consulting supergroup

The firm was formed by the mega-merger of eight separate companies

31 May 2018 3 mins

IT Management

Optus to stop selling Virgin Mobile services by mid-June

All stores will be closed by 30 June

30 May 2018 4 mins

Datacom undertakes company-wide overhaul

Changes aimed at better tapping the group's full potential going forward

30 May 2018 5 mins

Samsung Australia made a $58M after-tax loss last year

The latest tally is a marked drop from the company’s $3.49 million loss after tax in 2016

29 May 2018 3 mins

Dimension Data wins $46.2M software deal with Transport NSW

The deal sees Dimension Data become the primary software reseller for Transport NSW

29 May 2018 3 mins

Melbourne partner pitches in on Baby Bunting digital transformation

Loud&Clear claims Google, Acquia and Tealium, along with Sitecore, among its vendor partners

25 May 2018 2 mins

Sydney video specialist wins major Vivid building projections gig

TDC has partnered with Vivid Sydney for the past 10 years

25 May 2018 3 mins

Hills provides nurse call system as part of $900M Westmead redevelopment

New facilities expected to open in 2020

25 May 2018 2 mins

Vendors and Providers

Federal Court approves AC3’s Bulletproof acquisition

AC3 to pay $24.7 million to shareholders by 1 June

25 May 2018 2 mins

Oracle wins payday in Micros Systems lawsuit saga

Oracle gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from litigants

24 May 2018 3 mins

Veritas picks VMware talent as new APJ channels sales chief

Higgins had been VMware’s hybrid cloud services and partners commercial business general manager for South Asia and Korea

24 May 2018 3 mins

Optus wins latest legal round against Telstra in advertising tussles

Comes on the same day Optus was ordered to pay $1.5 million over misleading NBN transition claims

23 May 2018 4 mins

Optus ordered to pay $1.5M over misleading NBN transition claims

Optus told about 14,000 customers their services would be disconnected if they did not move to the NBN

23 May 2018 3 mins

Canon clashes with union over technician GPS tracking move

Canon claims it has gone to great lengths to protect its employees and to comply with all relevant legislation and employment agreements

22 May 2018 3 mins

New disaster recovery vendor touches down in Australia

Richard Giddey has been appointed as ActiveImage's Asia Pacific vice president and will soon add its first Aussie distie

22 May 2018 2 mins

Security

CSG chief faces criminal charges after anti-corruption investigation

IBAC filed criminal charges in the Magistrates Court in relation to a consulting project dubbed the Learning Technologies and Quality Assurance Project

21 May 2018 4 mins

Brisbane software vendor buys Locatrix Communications in IoT push

CSS was previously considering being acquired by Veriluma who is under external administration

Vocus names Kevin Russell as group CEO

Russell and Vocus New Zealand CEO Mark Callander will both join the Vocus board as executive directors

Ethan Group wins $27M hardware hoard with Human Services

The deals include the provision of 3,400 Surface Pro i7s, 1,000 Surface Pro i5s, and 8,000 desktop PCs and monitors

Business Operations

Merger on the cards as Intalock strengthens services team

Brisbane-based provider to expand outside of Queensland

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