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    NSW Minister for Education, Verity Firth, today said that the government had signed on Telstra to bring fast broadband to over 1.2 million students.

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    Microsoft unveiled the final pre-release of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) overnight. In this gallery we benchmark the latest release, and show you the new features in the world's most popular web browser.

  • Aussie customers monitoring Nortel

    A number of Nortel's large Australian customers this week said they were closely monitoring the company following news it had filed for bankruptcy protection in the US.

  • Linux KDE 4.2 RC1: Photos

    The latest version of the KDE desktop environment, mostly used on Linux, arrived last week (4.2 RC1), with the final product due on 22 January. We had a peek inside to see what this overhaul offers.

  • Aussies buy two Sun Blackboxes

    Sun Microsystems has sold two of its Project Blackbox "datacentre in a shipping container" products in Australia over the last year, the company revealed last week.

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    Sol-searching over at last

    After a job well done, it's time for Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo to head home for some relaxing times with familiar faces.

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    UPS systems from the dark ages

    Australia's largest banks typically have back-up systems upon back-up systems. Or do they? Some might not be quite so modern.

  • Read the blog post - Alex Serpo

    Trying to ring Nortel

    Can you call Nortel when its head office has applied for bankruptcy protection? Our resident cartoonist skewers the Canadian telecommunications equipment maker's recent problems.

  • Read the blog post - Alex Serpo

    Sun's BlackBox Down Under

    A humorous look at Sun Microsystems' revelation it had shipped two of its Project BlackBox 'datacentre in a shipping container' products in Australia over the past year.

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Do you love or hate Microsoft's Seinfeld ads?

    Microsoft has released its second commercial starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Have you seen it yet?

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  • Dell OptiPlex 960

    If you're shopping at the premium end of the business desktop market, you'll be hard-pressed to do better than the Dell OptiPlex 960.

  • 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.

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