After our recent publicity about the Infosys outsourcing deal, South East Water has responded to our publicly raised questions. The answers are in today's Chatroom column.

Regional telco service provider S P Telemedia (ASX:SOT) is to acquire the assets and business of Comindico from the receivers, McGrath Nicol, for what it describes as a fraction of their original value. Comindico, which spent $400 million on establishing its network over four years, went into voluntary administration last month, after running out of cash. Peter Walker and Steve Sherman of Ferrier Hodgson, appointed as voluntary administrators of the group of companies, said at the time that Comindico could be sold off as a going concern.

Automation software provider, Citect, (ASX: CTL), has won a $2.6 million, contract with China Gas Company Limited, to control and monitor gas distribution to 5.5 million households in seven mainland cities.

As I was having my Saturday morning capuccino with my running buddies (you can keep your skinny lattes), one of the group asked me, "How is that Telstra announces a better than $4 billion profit and my shares just continue to go down?"

The Federal Government's Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS) has selected Interwoven's document management WorkSite solution for more than 2000 users across all states and territories in a multi-million dollar project.

ICT security vendor, Senetas Corporation Ltd (ASX:SEN), has had its SONET/SDH data encryptor technology selected by the US Department of Defence to secure US military installations world wide in an order said to be greater than US$10 million.

We have been told that the launch this week of the CSIRO ICT Centre represents a huge opportunity for the Australian information and communication technologies (ICT) sector as it seeks to raise Australia's profile in the fiercely competitive global market. Pardon us for being cynics but what a bunch of baloney!

After much publicity on our part, Infosys has released an announcement about winning the South East Water deal. The following is the gist of the announcement, with some of the more obvious PR blurb edited out and some modifications from us. We intend to make a short comment at the end of this article.

A new whitepaper released by KPMG today has warned of risks associated with replacing traditional telephone networks with VoIP telephony solutions in business.

This week Intel announced it is investing US$150m into Clearwire to develop and help deploy WiMAX wireless broadband networks across the world. Today we heard that iBurst has expanded its coverage area again and intends to switch more areas onto wireless over the next weeks and months. We are seeing an explosion in affordable mobile data as never before. Alex Zaharov-Reutt tells you all you need to know.

Two of Australia's largest second tier internet service providers, Adelaide-based Chariot Limited (ASX: CTI) and Perth-based Datafast Telecommunications Limited (ASX: DFT), are in merger negotiations, which would create Australia's sixth largest ISP with 250,000 subscribers.

A survey of IT executives from 5231 companies across North America and Europe has given IT offshoring a huge raspberry. More than two thirds say they have no intentions to offshore, and more than half of those who have offshored say they have achieved no cost savings or suffered increased costs.

ICT services provider and PC box mover, Volante Group Limited (AS:VGL), has appointed former Compaq Australia boss, Ian Penman, as group managing director and chief executive officer of the company.

Recent reports from recruitment agents and market analysts that an ICT jobs recovery is gathering steam are misleading. Yes, the jobs market is certainly picking up in the ICT industry. However, the question is: what sort of jobs?

Just six months after spending one third of a billion dollars to buy Kaz, one of Australia's best IT services companies, it appears that Telstra just cannot help itself. Telstra intends to flood Kaz with 1300 Telstra employees to create a computer and communications services company with "a new focus on small and medium businesses". Welcome to Groundhog Day!

When the internet went mainstream about 10 years ago, there was no doubt that the business world knew it had mammoth potential as a money spinner. What the fast money had not quite figured out, however, was what internet business models would fly and which ones would flop. Thus, the dot com bubble was born.

Canberra based software developer, TASKey, has announced an ASP deal to supply a financial and administration system to Dubbo City Council through broadband internet.

Fujitsu Australia Limited today announced the acquisition of the Australian operations of Atos Origin to gain SAP expertsise.  Globally, Atos Origin is a 5 billion Euro (A$8.5 billion) a year, Paris-based provider of business application and IT outsourcing services.

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