Archive for February, 2008

ATO's EDS contract worth $2.43 billion

February 29th, 2008 • Uncategorized

This morning I broke the news that the Australian Taxation Office’s long-running (11 year) comprehensive technology outsourcing contract with Texan giant Electronic Data Systems was worth a total of $2.43 billion. Big numbers!

Woolworths expands supply chain push

February 27th, 2008 • Uncategorized

In this article in this morning’s Australian Financial Review I write about how Woolworths is expanding its internally developed supply chain IT systems into other areas of its business.

Coles CIO Peter Mahler resigns

February 26th, 2008 • Uncategorized

There’s been plenty of technology news to keep me busy over the past few days. My big scoop on Monday was reporting that long-time Coles Group chief information officer Peter Mahler would leave.

In our large Tuesday IT section I had a trio of stories: an interview with Microsoft developer evangelist Frank Arrigo, a local reaction from Ericsson to their global decision to sell off their PBX arm, and a piece about how ten internet service providers have written to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to complain about Telstra.

Lots of writing! It’s been an entertaining few days.

Grantley Mailes: the exit interview

February 18th, 2008 • Uncategorized

In late December I conducted an exclusive interview with South Australia’s state government chief information officer Grantley Mailes.

The subject? The two and a half years he spent leading the state’s information and communications technology function. Mailes has now left for a partnership in IBM’s consulting division.

The story was the cover article for the February issue of MIS Magazine. You can read it in full here.

Welcome

February 18th, 2008 • Uncategorized

Hi there, and welcome to my new website. I’m Renai LeMay, an award-winning technology journalist based in Sydney, Australia.

Currently, I work as a daily technology news reporter for The Australian Financial Review, the nation’s premier business paper. This website will not publish any of my articles, as they are found within the pages of The AFR.

However I will use this site to link to them so that people who follow my writing (hopefully not just my family and friends) will be able to stay up to date with my latest articles and, eventually, videos, image galleries and podcasts.

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"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."

About

This is the personal blog of Renai LeMay, a Sydney-based journalist, writer and publisher.

I am the proprietor of LeMay & Galt Media, a new media publishing company which publishes Australian technology publication Delimiter, science fiction and fantasy site Keeping the Door, and this blog.

You can contact me through email, at renai@delimiter.com.au, or by Twitter: @renailemay. My direct line is 02 8011 4539.

I am one of Australia's best-known technology journalists. I used to work as the news editor at CBS Interactive publication ZDNet.com.au, where I managed the site’s newsroom and reporters. In addition, I have been a technology reporter for the nation's premiere newspaper The Australian Financial Review, where I also contributed to MIS Magazine and other Fairfax publications like AFR Boss and Smart Investor.

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