Document management and delivery provider, ConnXion Limited (ASX:CXN), has won an electronic document delivery deal with a major UK wine retailer.

Portfolio management software company, Tomato Technologies (ASX:TMO), had a less than inspiring 2005, with its net profit down nearly $1 million.

In an after market close announcement, e-Learning software provider, HarvestRoad (ASX:HRD), has reported a disastrous financial year, with a 61.6% drop in revenues and a 217% turnaround from a healthy net profit in 2004 to a hefty loss in 2005.

Satellite broadband services provider, Multiemedia (ASX:MUL), reported a 24.57% net loss blowout to $12.765 for the 2005 financial year.

Wearable technology being developed at an Australian university could dramatically improve the effectiveness of disaster relief operations by creating a 3D interactive control room, linking relief coordinators to the disaster site.

Enterprise content management provider, Interwoven, has appointed Christopher Lynch as managing director, of the company's Australia and New Zealand office. Lynch spent more than a decade sin executive sales, channel, and operational management roles with companies including Hummingbird, Norada, and Software Spectrum. Prior to joining Interwoven, Lynch was the managing director for Hummingbird's ANZ operations for over five years, starting his career at the company as the national sales manager.

Business intelligence solutions provider, Business Objects, has named Pat Wynne to the position of group vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific region. Wynne most recently as the interim managing director of Australia and New Zealand for Business Objects. She joined Business Objects in 2001 as vice president of sales, before moving to the role of vice president of employee retention and motivation where she specifically focused on the integration of the Crystal Decisions and Business Objects sales teams. Prior to Business Objects, Wynne held positions at Brience Corporation, Backweb Technologies, and also held key senior sales positions for 9 years with Oracle Corporation, including the position of area vice president, west.

Network security vendor, Fortinet, has appointed data security specialist Steve Clack as manager, Australia and New Zealand. Clack was previously channel director ANZ for Trend Micro and he is a former UK sales director for McAfee. He was also director of a secure networking company in the UK, and UK managing director of a web-based customer service solutions provider.

Privately held telco, Arrow Voice & Data, has appointed James T Dominguez as chairman of the board. Formerly founder and chairman of Dominguez Barry Samuel Montagu, and later SBC Dominguez Barry investment bank — now UBS Australia — Dominguez has considerable experience at board level. He holds advisory roles for a number of technology companies, including Cisco Systems Australia and Fuji Xerox. Dominguez also serves as non-executive director of a number of companies including ETrade Australia, Nestle Australia, O'Connell Street Associates, Tat Hong (Singapore) and WESBEAM Holdings.

Content management vendor, Vignette, has appointed Carl Jones as senior pre-sales engineer, based in Melbourne. Jones has previously worked with content management company Fatwire Software. He has also held down successful stints at Candle Corporation, Opus Group Australia and San Francisco based Ipsys Software.

ICT recruiter, Candle Australia, has established a co-sourcing practice and appointed Danny Normington as general manager. Normington and his team of six in the Technology Co-sourcing Solutions division join Candle as a result of the acquisition of Parker Bridge Australia. As an associate director, Normington managed the Parker Bridge ICT division for four years prior to the acquisition and has more than ten years European and Australasian recruitment experience.

Executive demand in the information technology sector surged in August, with the IT sector rushing to its highest point since the 2001 tech wreck, signalling a real return to life in the IT industry, according to a new report.

Secure electronic transaction solutions provider, Keycorp Limited (ASX:KYC), has won a contract with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) as the technology provider for the national migration to Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV) smartcards in Saudi Arabia.

South Australian ISP, Chariot Limited (ASX:CTI), has secured a major share of the key Melbourne ISP market with the acquisition of medium sized ISP Alphalink.

The Victorian Government has attacked the Federal Government's Higher Bandwidth Incentive Scheme (HiBIS), claiming it is seriously flawed, according to a report it commissioned.

Communications systems vendor, Avaya, has announced the Australian launch of the first phase of its enterprise fixed mobile convergence (FMC) applications, jointly developed with Nokia.

Israel-based NASDAQ listed call centre solutions provider, NICE Systems will acquire its largest Australasian distributor, Hannamax Hi-Tech Pty Ltd, for $1.8 million in a one-time cash instalment plus a future earn-out based on performance.

Web hosting service provider, Hostway, has undercut rival NetRegistry, just one day after it slashed its prices for .com.au and .net.au domain registration.

Whatever we make think about the current management of Telstra, the recent behaviour of trios amigos, and the politics of the extraordinary farce that is now taking place in the public arena, one thing is clear. Over the past five years, at least, Telstra has been one of the most poorly managed large public companies in Australia and that's not Sol Trujillo's fault.

They were to form the fifth largest national ISP, but now the merger is off between Chariot Limited (ASX:CTI) and Datafast Telecommunications Limited (ASX: DFT), with Datafast saying due diligence didn't pass muster.