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PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sued by Sydney Water over IT failure

PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC sued by Sydney Water over IT failureCall me cynical...What percentage of similarly-sized projects have actually succeeded, in terms of delivering on time and within budget?Contractors bid low to win a project. The customer, overjoyed that they can get what they want for such a bargain, happily go along...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Sydney Water, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-12-01

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) sued by Sydney Water over IT failure

Sydney Water Australia is pursuing litigation against PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC over the failed Customer Information Billing System CIBS project. The core software was supplied by Severn Trent Systems STS in the UK. A recent report published by the New South Wales Audit Office, says: Sydney Water is...

Tags: Project, Information Technology, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Matter, Sydney Water, Strategy, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-01

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BREAKING: Internet broken, North America-Asia cables damaged

BREAKING: Internet broken, North America-Asia cables damagedThere you go!Point well taken :-)BINGO .......NT ....hahah you got it manall this cloud none sense lost its meaning in a 10th of a second ....It's raining on their parade!////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Actually clouds handle this really wellIn this situation you're much better off with...

Tags: Network technology, cable, North America-Asia, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-12-19

The OS should be invisible to the user - Is Torvalds right?

The Sydney Morning Herald has a Q&A with Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds.  It's an interesting read, but one part more than any stood out for me: "An o/s should never have been something that people in general really care about: it should be completely invisible and nobody should...

Tags: Operating System, Kernel, Linus Torvalds, Sydney Morning Herald, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-02-09

Fly the green skies at Mach 5

The European Union has launched in 2005 its Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project LAPCAT. Several companies worked on this €7 million EU-funded project. For example, Popular Science reports that Reaction Engines Limited has designed an hydrogen-powered hypersonic airliner simply dubbed A2. This plane would fly at Mach 5...

Tags: Hydrogen, Plane, Concorde, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Sydney Opera House 3D 1.0 (Windows)

One of the best cultural achievements of the past century is at your disposal. Soar up above the city of Sydney and have an incredible flight over the neighborhoods of Opera House that seems to be hovering above the turquoise water of the harbor. A brilliant sample of stark music,...

Tags: 3D, Lacombo, Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Operating Systems, Software, Sydney

Software downloads 2008-01-21

Second iPhone battery lawsuit filed

Second iPhone battery lawsuit filedFourth and easier thing.Apple replaces the batteries for free.Ship in your iPhone or take it to an Apple store and they turn it around in 48 hours for nothing.I'd expect to see this before any of the lawsuits gain any traction.Who's more stupid?Those who buy iPhones...

Tags: Engineering, Replacement Battery, Best Part, battery, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., lawsuit

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?

Emissions from popular laser printers may be carcinogenic. How will HP respond?Everything on God's green earth...Everything on God's green earth produces something harmful to others...!Headline:Warning to all computer users. Excessive reading of ZDNet causes excess spurious emissions of light energy from laptop screens which causes blindness in lab animals.This is...

Tags: Printers, laser, printer, ozone, Hewlett-Packard Co., laser printer

Discussion threads 2007-08-02

Sydney Opera House 3D 1 (Windows)

One of the best cultural achievements of the past century is at your disposal! Soar up above the city of Sydney and have an incredible flight over the neighborhoods of Opera House that seems to be hovering above the turquoise water of the harbor. A brilliant sample of stark music,...

Tags: 3D, Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Operating Systems, ScreenSavers4You, Software, Sydney

Software downloads 2007-06-21

Robotics con at University of Sydney

If you love all things robotic and are in Sydney, Australia check out the Computing the Future Symposium at the University of Sydney today. The symposium, reports The Sydney Morning Herald has leading roboticists discussing how robotics will impact everything from the military to domestic environments. Future scenarios envisioned...

Tags: robotics, University of Sydney

Blog posts 2006-09-12