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• When do we declare Google a monopoly?

  I did a double take recently after listening to Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell acknowledge that his company was ready to lose even more money in online services in the near term, if that's what it takes to catch Google.

• Did Telstra mean to mislead in Next G adverts?

  Telstra probably knew its Next G advertising campaign was misleading and expected to write it off as the "costs of doing business", according to an IBRS Analyst.

• New ad technology crumbles cookies

  An advertising technology company is hoping to turn concerns about Internet privacy to its advantage, offering a way for companies to deliver online ads without using electronic markers known as cookies.

• A billboard in the palm of your hand

  Technology executive Eric Engstom recently tried to sell a room filled with sceptics on his company GitWit, a maker of mobile phones for teenagers.

• Is deep linking legal?

  If your site links to a Web page other than a site's home page, you could be vulnerable to litigation.

Blogs (16)

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  Telstra: We hear separation rumours

  Is the government manoeuvring towards a structural separation of Telstra?

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  Australian Govt funds IT start-ups

  This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.

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  In CDMA hubbub, don't forget the broadband

  Last week, a family friend rang for some technical help. "Telstra sold me this wireless Internet service and they promised it would work both at my home and at my office," he said. Said home is in the Melbourne CBD, and said office is in Kyneton, a lovely town about an hour away from Melbourne.

• Cop it sweet

  Patch Monday makes its timely return and is armed with another week of stories, interviews and rumours to digest.

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  Tasmanian NBN: Small step or a giant leap?

  Like the engineers that sat down on day one with an empty blackboard and a mission to get man to the moon and back, building the NBN from the ground up is a daunting and complex opportunity that will present more than its share of challenges.

Features and Case Studies (73)

• Telstra between a rock and the ACCC?

  The proposed regulatory reforms ahead of the roll-out of the National Broadband Network rely on a finely balanced carrot and stick approach. But will Telstra cooperate with the government's ultimatum?

• How corporate Australia battles information overload

  We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.

• Victorian e-commerce sites fail audit

  An audit of e-commerce Web sites by the Victorian government has found less than one percent met all the requirements for the Commonwealth 'Best Practice' model.

• AFP's high-tech unit let Rome burn

  The "Anonymous" hacker group gave Australia's police forces a month's warning that it was going to attack the Federal Government. Why didn't the Australian Federal Police's electronic crimes unit do anything about it?

• Fostering a better Kaz future with Fujitsu

  For the first time, Kaz chief Mike Foster tells the full story about how the Peter Kazacos' baby was treated within Telstra, and how the deal with Fujitsu went down.

Reviews (23)

• UPDATE: Qld government muscles carriers into better coverage

  The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".

• New Netscape punctures pop-up ads

  AOL Time Warner has released a version of its Netscape browser that lets Web surfers suppress pop-up ads, a further sign of declining fortunes for a widely hated marketing format.

• Data centre 101

  Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.

• Browsing opportunities: 11 Web browsers compared

  Feeling entrenched in your choice of browser? Break free! We compare 11 different browsers so you can find the right one for you and your company.

• D-Link DVC-1000 i2eye

  The DVC-1000 is an easy-to-use videoconferencing option for broadband users who don't want to be tethered to their PCs.

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