Kelly Mills

Outsourcing is looking more attractive as manpower within IT departments continues to be stretched to the max.

Wireless technologies may be gaining in popularity, but around 60 per cent of sites deploying wireless LANs have not enabled the encryption

Vodafone Pacific Pty. Ltd. is preparing to slash its workforce by half, outsource its IT and engineering departments, and sell off several projects as part of a drastic "turnaround" rescue plan.

International information and telecommunications trade show CeBIT is heading down under with the launch of CeBIT Australia in Sydney in May 2002.

Australia's IT industry is hunkering down for an uncertain ride as local and world events send a wave of caution through the industry.

Traditional IT ideals of building a system to meet current requirements was a fundamental cause of recently failed Australian carrier One.Tel Ltd.'s billing system blunders and threatens to stymie other carriers in their move to new generation systems.

As PDA (personal digital assistant) usage escalates, concerns grow about data network security, according to research company Gartner Group Inc.'s Solista unit.

Australia's tumbling dollar, combined with a slump in the U.S. IT market, is taking the pressure off the nation's ever-present 'brain drain' problem.