EXCLUSIVE The Australian operations of KPMG will be an international test bed for the firm’s global plan to consolidate IT services from 130 countries into 14 regional service clusters. The Integrated Business Systems (IBS) project will see KPMG consolidate the data centres and associated...

Fujitsu acquires KAZ from Telstra for $200 million IT services powerhouse Fujitsu will relieve Telstra of its KAZ IT services business for $200 million. The acquisition positions Fujitsu as the third biggest IT company in Australia by revenue, behind only IBM and HP/EDS.  The Tokyo-based company will...

Opinion: Turning IT advances to your advantage New IT initiatives rarely deliver unless they dovetail with overall business strategy, writes UPS IT director Nick Gray. Technology helps businesses address customers’ needs, improve operations, and increase profitability. But it is not the technology...

Secrets of the underground economy In IRC channels and web-based forums, the underground economy is thriving, according to the latest year-long report by Symantec. Find out how much a botnet or a set of credit card details would cost you. The ‘underground economy’ refers to commercial cybercrime...

TELSTRA call centre workers are under pressure to meet targets as the company blames them for losses instead of a faulty computer system, the communications union says. The three-month-old Siebel system may be costing the telco millions of dollars in lost revenue with call centres choked by long delays and...