Gary Eckstein General Technology 1 Australia, business, it, ITIL, Management, telstra, transformation
Well done to Telstra on ‘winning’ the ten year $1bn contract to provide Managed Services to Commonwealth bank of Australia (CBA). This is obviously a very large contract especially given the current challenging economic times. Telstra is making significant effort to mature its ITIL processes further which will benefit CBA and other Telstra Managed Service [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 1 hardware, Microsoft, OpenSource, skype, small business, sme, Software, VOIP
There are very few small businesses that are able to operate both effectively and profitably without using Information Technology (I.T.). I.T. is a business enabler and, if implemented and managed correctly, may add significantly to the success of a business. The challenge is generally not whether to adopt technology in a small business but rather [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 Australia, fttp, Internet, nbn, web, wireless
One doesn’t need to be a ‘techie’. Just plain common sense makes it so obvious that the Australian Governments Internet Broadband plan (NBN – National Broadband Network) is ill conceived and wasteful to the extreme. Sure the need for wider access to the Internet as well as high speed Internet isn’t debatable. The method of [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 anti-virus, email, word
Two eye opening reports have been published recently. Both deal with what has been termed Ghostnet which has been discovered in tracking the infiltration of Tibetan computer networks. The two reports are: ‘Tracking GhostNet’ (University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies and The SecDev Group) and ‘The Snooping Dragon: social-malware surveillance of the Tibetan [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 3 environment, gps, Management, telstra
In Telstra’s* latest ‘Half Year Analyst Briefing Presentation‘ for the half-year ending December 2008 there is a line in a slide under the titled ‘Environmental Social & Governance’ stating ‘GPS reducing fuel consumption by 6%’ (see image at the end of this post). This is a very interesting statement indeed. On the face of it, [...]
