Smaller IT suppliers stand to benefit from the next government, with both Labor and Coalition pledging to make it easier to win government IT business.

Confusion still abounds over the long anticipated and much beleaguered launch of Microsoft XP SP2.

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told Australian media he was unfazed about the threat of open source or scepticism by business towards technology and defended the security of Microsoft's software products.

Bidders are angry about an auction, run by Graysonline, which was retracted due to a ‘technological difficulty’.

Primus Telecom announced today it had acquired interactive services business AOL|7 from stakeholders AOL, AAPT and the Seven Network for just over $23 million.

IT&T has become a political football in the lead up to the Federal election, with Telstra and NOIE's future put into question.

Local users remain skeptical towards enterprise content management, despite predictions the market will reach US$9 billion in software and services by 2007, says analyst firm META Group.

The Senate’s block of a Howard Government plan to fully privatise Telstra could trigger an early election. However Telstra needs to improve customer service, independents argue.

Sun has forged a path onto more government desktops, signing a four-year deal with the NSW Government as trials of StarOffice are underway in six government agencies.

Telstra will credit Bigpond customers with two weeks access, following email delays which saw the service impacted for almost a week.