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Tech News Bulletin
Thursday October 9, 2008
ZDNet.com.au edit team
 
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Telstra union plans strike action
Telstra could be facing industrial action after one of the unions that represents the telco's workers late last night said attempts to negotiate a new collective agreement had failed.
Tags: cepu, industrial action, strike, telstra, unions, union, industrial, agreement
CBA, BankWest tie IT knot in 2011
BankWest's existing technology platform would continue to underpin its operations until the Commonwealth Bank has fully moved across to its new core banking system in 2011, the bigger bank revealed today as it detailed its takeover plans.
Tags: accenture, application development, asx, cba, cio, commbank, core banking, earnings
Unions go after Telstra investors
Telstra's unions have decided to approach the telco's institutional investors to put the bad word on Telstra's senior management in the lead up to its annual general meeting.
Tags: telstra, actu, lawrence, mcgauchie, agm, shareholders, shareholder, union
Jus' got the banking IT blues
Will Suncorp chief information officer Jeff Smith stick around if the bank's rapid decline in value due to the credit crisis leads to a fire sale of several of its key divisions?
Tags: anz, bankwest, cba, commonwealth bank, jeff smith, suncorp, telstra, smith
Australian ICT industry worth $123 billion
Australia's ICT industry for the year to 30 June 2007 made $123 billion and employed just under 300,000 people, paying $21 billion in wages, according to numbers released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Tags: statistics, ict, abs, survey, salaries, expenditure, profit, income
BMC loses Australian chief
After two years at the top and 12 years with the company, BMC Software Australia and New Zealand country manager Mike Davies has left the group to return with his family to his Kiwi roots.
Tags: australia, bmc, it service management, software, mitchell
CBA IT overhaul gets BankWest bump
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia today said it would merge BankWest's technology platforms with its own as part of its planned $2.1 billion acquisition of the Western Australian bank.
Tags: bankwest, cba, commbank, core banking system, merger, unisys, western, banking
Accenture wins Telstra maintenance deal
Accenture this morning announced it had won a five-year, multimillion dollar contract with Telstra to maintain the new customer care and billing platform that the IT services giant helped develop.
Tags: telstra, accenture, billing, outsourcing, bill, platform, transformation
Vodafone cuts price of wireless plans
Just a day after Optus said that it was reducing the quotas of its prepaid wireless plans, Vodafone has announced it is rolling back prices on its post-paid mobile broadband plans.
Tags: 3, vodafone, optus, wireless, mobile, broadband, telstra, price
Oracle bulks up for NAB work
Global software giant Oracle has commenced a recruitment drive for specialists to help deliver on a contract it inked several months ago to deliver the first step of a new core banking system to the National Australia Bank.
Tags: core banking, hiring, national australia bank, oracle, software, nab, financial services, bank

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