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    The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) is tendering for a partner to integrate its Financial Support System (FSS) upgrade project into its new environment.

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    A telecommunications analyst from investment advisory service, BBY, has labelled the government's $43 billion NBN plan "as risky as it gets" and said it will fail to attract investors in the current information vacuum.

  • 10,800 Myki transactions were faulty

    Victoria's Transport Ticketing Authority has confirmed the state's new Myki public transport smart card system has suffered errors that caused passengers to be overcharged a total of 10,800 times over the past few months.

  • Internode DSLAMs Victoria, Tasmania

    Internode will spend $10 million upgrading its ADSL2+ infrastructure in a move that will primarily benefit Victorian and Tasmanian customers.

  • State of the program: PCs in schools

    The Federal Government has promised to spend $2 billion to give a PC to every Australian student in years nine to 12. But where is the program at so far? Our round-up shows the state of Kevin Rudd's initiative.

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    NBN needs workers on board

    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telco revenues: part two

    Great to see so many constructive comments on here definitely a case of the facts speaking for themselves.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telco revenues: my facts, your opinions

    I don't think I'm stepping out of line when I say that every good analysis combines facts and opinion.

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    Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the National Australia Bank's technology operation in the second of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

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    Virtualisation is a great way to thin down your datacentres (assuming you can keep VM creep under control). But what's out there? In the first part of this virtualisation feature, ZDNet investigates ...

  • Do you Google?

    As the company reaches beyond its Internet search roots, critics ask whether success may breed an identity crisis.

  • Five RAID units tested

    It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options.

  • Australia's affair with mainframes

    Leading Australian companies HCF, ANZ Bank, Westpac and St George share their ups and downs with the mighty mainframe in this special report.

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  • AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition

    While the higher power consumption is a slight concern, the X4 955 proves that AMD is back in the performance game and ready to play hard ball. Bring on the next generation.

  • Asus Eee PC 1000HE

    The Asus Eee PC 1000HE is a good 10-inch netbook; while we're hanging out for the higher-resolution HP Mini 2140, this is definitely one of the better 10-inch netbooks on the market.

  • MSI Wind U115 Hybrid

    The Wind is still one of the better 10-inch laptops in the mix, although due to its substandard trackpad and high price, we'd suggest the HP Mini 2140 or Asus Eee PC 1000HE would be a better choice.

  • IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2

    While the interface of IBM's free office suite is sexy, its hunger for system resources and lack of features mean that OpenOffice.org 3 is still the best free office suite. Also, watch out for Symphony's lack of OOXML support.

  • Citrix XenServer 5

    Early releases of the Xen hypervisor showed promise but had lots of rough edges. Citrix's XenServer 5, however, is very much a production-class virtualisation solution with features that match, and in some cases exceed, what's available on rival platforms.

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