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• Optus needs a stronger NBN strategy: Analysts

  By Hamish Barwick | 01 February, 2012 11:34

  While Optus is fresh from celebrating 20 years in business, the next two decades will see changes in the telecommunications market that it will need to tackle in order to stay competitive, according to telco analysts.

• Retail banking tech spending to hit $US30 billion: Ovum

  By Computerworld Staff | 17 January, 2012 12:02

  Retail banking technology spending in the Asia Pacific region is expected to increase by $US1.2 billion this year to reach $30 billion over the next five years, according to a new study by Ovum.

• Government agency IT budget cuts confirmed: Swan

  By Hamish Barwick | 30 November, 2011 09:58

  The Gillard government’s treasurer, Wayne Swan, has indicated in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) that there will be a 20 per cent cut in capital expenditure for government agencies with IT projects worth less than $10 million under the knife.

• Paul O’Sullivan looks back at 20 years of Optus

  By Hamish Barwick | 18 November, 2011 16:27

  It was 20 years ago on November 19, 1991, when Optus was granted its carrier licence. Since then, the telecommunications company has survived many ups and downs.

• Windows Phone tipped to rival BlackBerry by 2016: Ovum

  By Hamish Barwick | 02 November, 2011 10:37

  The Asia Pacific enterprise smartphone market is set for a shakeup over the next five years, with analyst firm Ovum predicting that Windows Phone handsets will make up 25 per cent of sales by 2016.

• More Cloud on the horizon

  By Mark Phillips | 11 August, 2011 17:02

  Asia-Pacific insurers are planning to increase their IT budgets in 2011–2012 and -- interesting for an industry that is traditionally slow to adopt new technologies -- 43 per cent of respondents in a new study have already deployed or are experimenting with private Cloud.

• Financial markets to spend $18 billion on IT in Asia-Pacific by 2015

  By Georgina Swan | 08 August, 2011 10:14

  The Asia-Pacific financial markets industry is tipped to spend $US18 billion on IT by 2015, according to analyst firm Ovum.

• Australian IT health spending tipped to reach $2.1 billion: Ovum

  By Hamish Barwick | 28 July, 2011 15:26

  Local IT health expenditure is expected to reach $2.1 billion by 2016, according to a report by analyst firm Ovum, which is driven by increased spending on electronic health records (EHRs), picture archiving and telehealth services.

• Telco Cloud providers must partner with IT services players: Ovum

  By Lisa Banks | 25 July, 2011 12:06

  Telcos offering Cloud services should partner with an existing IT services provider rather than going it alone, according to Ovum.

• CIOs say desktop virtualization remains risky: Ovum

  By Rodney Gedda | 20 July, 2011 13:03

  Research firm Ovum has released a new report into the perception CIOs have of desktop virtualization and an immature market poses risks when trying to procure the most appropriate technology.

• Cisco faces uphill battle in Aussie tablet market with Cius: Ovum

  By Hamish Barwick | 12 July, 2011 11:48

  Cisco will face an uphill battle when it charges into the already saturated tablet PC market with the 31 July Australian launch of its Cius dual IP phone and tablet device, analyst firm Ovum has argued.

• NextDC predicts substantial power price increase for company following carbon tax

  By Hamish Barwick | 11 July, 2011 16:06

  NextDC chief executive, Bevan Slattery, has predicted that it may be incurring costs of "2.7 cents per kilo watt" at its Melbourne facility once the Gillard Government's carbon tax comes into affect on 1 July, 2012.

• FTTH and FTTB set to overtake DSL connections in APAC by 2014: Ovum

  By Lisa Banks | 11 July, 2011 12:05

  Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and Fiber-to-the-Building (FTTB) are set to overtake DSL in the Asia-Pacific region by 2014, Ovum has claimed.

• Facebook Skype arrangement to force telco's hand on mobile rates: Ovum

  By Hamish Barwick | 11 July, 2011 10:46

  Australian telecommunication providers may be forced to look at other revenue streams and cut calling rates in the future as Facebook and Skype begin offering free video calls, according to analyst firm, Ovum.

• Green IT winning favour with CIOs: Survey

  By Rodney Gedda | 09 June, 2011 10:05

  Organisations using 'Green' IT has increased 5 per cent during the second half of last year with nearly three-quarters of CIOs having deployed more environmentally sustainable products and services, according to a new survey.