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The Western Australian government owned electricity network utility, Western Power, has signed a three year, $A15.4 million IT services contract with Computer Services Corporation (CSC).

Ajilon, B-Sec, Orbis, Philology, SaaSCentral, and WhoCanDo

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Australia is investing $50 million over the next ten years in a new campus in Coniston Technology Park in the Illawarra region.

The Water Corporation in Western Australia today announced an IT services contract with CSC to the tune of $190 million.

It's a given that with time VOIP will replace traditional voice technology in corporate networks. Sales of IP phone systems have surpassed those of traditional PBXs, and business VOIP will exceed traditional voice by 2010, according to IDC.

Businesses will face a 10-fold increase in the amount of information from their IT systems over the next five years, an influx of data that will pose tough decisions for smoothly using BI (business-intelligence) software.

Technology companies intent on selling RFID into the enterprise need to better communicate consumer benefits and ease off on the shareholder-pitched balance sheet savings, according to the CTO of supply chain software vendor Viewlocity, Michael Sherman.

Alcoa World Alumina Australia has outsourced support of its IT infrastructure in a $15 million deal with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).

With it budgets tight, CIOs are being asked to tally up ROI figures for every sizeable project these days. Not surprisingly, consulting firms ranging from Gartner to two-man start-ups — often founded by Gartner alumni — have stepped in with a full complement of ROI metrics, methodologies, guidelines and benchmarking services to cash in on the opportunity. We’ve sifted through some of the offerings.

At last, we are starting to see shareholders with backbone and more than a modicum of common sense. Recently, Hewlett-Packard Co. shareholders passed a nonbinding recommendation asking the company's directors to obtain stockholder approval of large executive severance packages. HP's management, which had lobbied hard against the proposal, issued a terse statement saying that it would "duly consider" the recommendation.

MetalSpectrum LLC this week became the latest marketplace to announce it was closing operations, joining the likes of PetroCosm Corp., FreightWise Inc. and dozens of others.