TODAY ON ITNEWS
Jobs Centre
Canon confirms local redundancies
By
Ry Crozier
| May 01, 2009
Canon Australia has culled 15 staff as part of its ongoing transformation but says it has created almost as many new positions this week.
Business
UPDATE: Staff report CSC axing 150-170 local workers
By
Brett Winterford
| May 01, 2009
CSC insiders in contact with iTnews have been told that some 150-170 Australian staff will be made redundant under the American giant's cost-cutting plan.
Internet
AussieHQ to migrate Hosting Shop servers to Sydney
By
Ry Crozier
| May 01, 2009
AussieHQ will shift "hundreds of servers" of data virtually from Brisbane to Sydney over the next six months after acquiring Brisbane-based Hosting Shop for an amount "well into the seven figures".
Storage
WebCentral email saga finally over
By
Brett Winterford
| May 01, 2009
Some 72 hours into an outage that left WebCentral customers without access to managed exchange, POP email or webmail, customers of the Melbourne-IT owned hosting company finally report being able to once again access e-mail.
Telecommunications
Researchers look to rocks for Aussie internet cable risks
By
Ry Crozier
| May 01, 2009
Australian researchers are hoping to examine the sediment layers in Hawaii's geological landscape to more accurately predict tsunami risks to submarine cables that route 70 per cent of local web traffic daily.
Hardware
Asus scores Tassie IT hardware contract
By
Brett Winterford
| May 01, 2009
Taiwanese PC vendor Asus is in the running for hardware contracts worth over $120 million a year after being added to a list of approved hardware suppliers to Tasmanian Government agencies.
Hardware
Dell Dick Smith strike retail deal
By
Jenny Eagle
| May 01, 2009
Dell will stock a range of products including configurations of its Inspiron 15 and Studio 15 laptops and one configuration of its Studio One 19 all-in-one desktop computer in 70 of the retail giant's stores from 6th May.
Operating Systems
Acer says Windows 7 to ship 23 Oct
By
Shaun Nichols
| May 01, 2009
An Acer executive has revealed the day that Windows 7 systems will begin shipping.
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