Stories about: Freehills

The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) this week released its audit on the government's third sale of Telstra shares, T3, concluding that the sale represented effective and efficient use of public money despite lavish hotel bills for a roadshow promoting the sale, inflated legal and communications adviser costs and selling commissions of over $204 million.

Law firm Freehills is the first professional services organization in Australia to rollout Microsoft's SQL 2005 analytics and reporting platform, ditching its Business Objects solution in the process.

A long-awaited scoping study into the sale of Telstra was completed today.

Litigation, or the threat of it, appears as an increasingly used ploy in vendorland as suppliers strive for the upper hand in dealings with customers. And signs emerge that this ugly trend - the flipside of customers suing vendors - has reached Australian shores.

The man once labelled the nation's most reviled marketer has given attendees at his business seminars the opposite advice to the practice recommended by legislators of the Spam Act.

Australia has joined the European Union and the United States in drafting anti-spam legislation which is set to be introduced next year. While 90 per cent of spam into Australia is sourced from overseas, new laws will be critical in stemming the tide of this growing menace. The Federal Government estimates spam makes up to 20 per cent of e-mails in Australia topping one billion messages last year, more than double the previous year. In response IT managers have introduced policies, processes and filtering technologies not only to protect their organisations against legal liability but to tackle the productivity and financial burden created by unsolicited e-mails. This special two part series examines the Spam Bill 2003 and its consequences for Australian business. It also takes a global look at the technologies and trends that have emerged in the battle against bulging inboxes.

Many IT managers in Sydney's CBD have had to put their power contingency plans into effect today as electricity to sections of the city was cut off thanks to a fire in an underground cable tunnel.

IT consultant and author Randal Schwartz has called for common sense in the development of cyber laws.

Boasting the highest concentration of e-security companies and research facilities outside of North America, the Queensland government and industry are working together to create an e-security cluster that is set to take on the big players in the IT security market.

Numerous legislative stumbling blocks mean there is little chance of industry participating in even the most remote level of information sharing as part of the federal government's critical infrastructure initiatives.

Sydney-based Ateco Automotive Pty Ltd is appealing a decision by the Supreme Court of NSW after the company failed in its claim for close to $1 million against Business Bytes Pty Ltd in a breach of contract dispute over a faulty computer system.