Stories about: Syntegra

Former Oracle executive, Patricia Nance, has been appointed to the role of Asia Pacific managing director at The Distillery.

A new division of Sprint Nextel isn't pushing phones or minutes: it's selling brains.

The NSW State Electoral Office (SEO) has signed a $1 million contract to redevelop the Integrated Legislative Council and Local Government Election Counting Systems.

In a $3 million deal, Elcom, a credit union based about 60km north of Sydney on the NSW central coast, has dumped its 20-year-old legacy system and outsourced disaster recovery planning and management of its core software system.

A cost-effective electronic security budget has to be based on overall business objectives rather than on point solutions such as firewalls, dial-back modems, a public key infrastructure or a single sign-on.

Systems integrator and wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom (BT), Syntegra Australia, has called in four high-flyers to advise the company on its future direction.

I must be one of perhaps five people in the United States who hasn't watched Survivor, the CBS summer replacement series about 16 contestants (castaways) dropped on a remote island to compete for $1 million. It isn't for lack of time, although finding more productive things to do is never much of a problem, and I'm not one of those pretentious nudniks who are proud to announce to anyone who'll listen that they don't watch television. I'm a pretentious nudnik for other reasons.

With all the talk these days of packing user information, security data, policy requirements and configuration files into network directories, the next logical question is what kind of security exists to protect the integrity of all that information?

British Telecommunications PLC (BT) turned in significant increases in revenues in the first quarter ended June 30, 1999. However, the U.K. carrier's profits rose to a lesser degree, as margins for the carrier continue to be driven down by growing competition and increased expenses. BT's total revenues in the first quarter increased 17.6 percent to reach 4.98 billion [B] pounds (US$7.9 billion [B]), up from 4.2 billion [B] the year earlier. BT credited growth in its mobile and solutions businesses as well as its international ventures for the increased revenues.

Syntegra, the systems integrator owned by British Telecommunications (BT) will pay $US340 million to acquire Control Data Systems, a Minnesota-based company that provides systems integration and electronic-commerce outsourcing services, the companies announced yesterday.