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  • Qld education progresses PC project

    Queensland's Department of Education, Training and the Arts has revealed it is most of the way through one of Australia's largest roll-outs of a standard desktop PC and server operating environments, including a standardised Apple Mac installation.

  • NSW schools cashed up in AU$772m tech bonanza

    The NSW state government handed down its 2008-09 Budget last night, with a surprise spend on video conferencing for schools, a boost to health tech outlay, and a pledge to tighten ICT capital expenditure.

  • Security spend hits $10bn as SMEs wise up

    Gartner says the US$10.5bn figure will be reached by the end of 2008, rising to US$13.1bn by 2012, as SMEs intensify their focus on security.

  • Microsoft muscles in on government desktops

    Software giant Microsoft has got its foot in the door of Australian government offices, striking a AU$10.5 million licensing and IT partnership deal.

  • Next G now more popular than CDMA: Telstra

    Telstra has revealed that for the first time, there are more subscribers to its third generation Next G network than its 2G CDMA counterparts, with over one million users adopting 3G technology.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    DCITA: Too many policies, too few policies?

    If someone gave you AU$93.5 million to spend, would you forget it? I wouldn't either. But this is exactly what seems to have happened in the aftermath of the 2007/8 federal budget, which was widely lambasted by many observers -- including yours truly -- for its lack of funding for meaningful ICT related initiatives.

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  • Desktop dream machines

    RMIT Test Lab finally got its hands on some of the most powerful business PCs on the market. So it is with an eagerness bordering on unadulterated glee that Matt Tett puts these racehorses through their paces.

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