ACS CEO Week in Review: 9 Nov 2012
Reports out this week
- Frost & Sullivan Australian Contact Centre Market 2012
- Queensland Skills and Training Taskforce Report
ACS in the news
- First we off-shored work, now graduates, The Sydney Morning Herald
- Skills void threatens data-driven project, The Australian
ICT in the Media
- Digital Economy: Microsoft’s investment in Brazil to spur Rio research boom-execs
- Patents and Copyright: Apple targets Android OS in patent wars
- ICT jobs market and skills: IT jobs on the other side of the cloud
- Telecommunications: NBN Co sets business pricing
Digital Economy
- Accountants will spend the bulk of their capital on new technology systems in 2013. But it could drive down charge out rates, and deriving productivity gains from these investments will require discipline.
- Microsoft will invest $US100 million in a research centre in Rio de Janeiro, executives said on Wednesday, helping Brazil's push to generate high-tech jobs in an economy long built on commodities and basic industry.
Skills & Training
- IT jobs on the other side of the cloud. As companies turn increasingly toward the cloud, corporate IT staffers wonder if the grass is greener working for a service provider.
- MORE companies are turning to start-ups for creative ideas following an increased push for innovation, experts say.
Cyber Security
- Election could mean movement on high-skill immigration, copyright. Expect debates on cybersecurity, spectrum and privacy in Congress in 2013.
- Pizza Hut Australia has denied claims information for 240,000 Australian credit cards was stolen from its website in a hacking attempt.
Telecommunications
- NBN Co has unveiled wholesale pricing for its business grade broadband starting at below $100 per month for basic packages aimed at small enterprises. The national wholesale network provider announced the pricing Wednesday as it revealed a three phase program for delivering its enterprise strategy.
- It has been a case of curiouser and curiouser since Tim Chen first joined the upper echelons of Telstra in March only to leave just six months later and finally return again. As the first Chinese national to hold a board position with Telstra, Mr Chen's arrival was hailed by chairman Catherine Livingstone as the perfect fit for the telco's strategic plans and expansion into Asia.
Government announcements
- The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today announced the conclusion of the technical audio description trial conducted on ABC television.
- Minister for Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today said that Australians should ignore Malcolm Turnbull and instead look to Tony Abbott to understand the Coalition's plans for broadband.
- Griffith University will receive almost $10 million from the Gillard Government for a range of new research projects, including creating a quantum computer capable of solving problems exponentially faster than any classical machine.