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  • Kramer goes as Thodey remixes Telstra

    Telstra executive Holly Kramer has resigned as her product management function is split into wireless and fixed line portfolios, as part of a larger overhaul revealed by chief executive David Thodey this morning.

  • Mincom trims Australian staff

    Enterprise asset management specialist Mincom has made some of its Australian and North American employees redundant in a realignment to its managed services division.

  • Mac Uni nabs CIO from Objective

    Macquarie University has nabbed Marc Bailey, the chief technology officer of content management software Objective, to be its new chief information officer.

  • US FCC chief outlines new internet rules

    The head of the US Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules on Monday that would require internet providers to treat all web traffic equally.

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    Health information technology company iSOFT Group expects a big year ahead as it predicts higher sales and profits.

Blogs (37)

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    2009 funding drought rolls on

    For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Has Particls disintegrated?

    Brisbane-born start-up Particls promised a better way of organising information from the web. Now, however, it appears to have given up the battle, with both the Particls website and that of its parent company Faraday Media disappearing from the web.

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    The poor cousin

    Microsoft is one of those companies that doles out the goodwill with one hand and takes it back with the other.

  • Read the blog post - Chris Duckett

    IE8 marketing: MS takes the low road

    Microsoft's current Internet Explorer 8 marketing push continues to leave a bad lingering aftertaste.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Will Rudd's 'adios' threaten NBN funding?

    As the knee-jerk defensive responses to Rudd's "adios" subside and Australia moves on, has Rudd made Australia that little less appealing to the overseas investors he desperately needs to fund his NBN?

Features and Case Studies (212)

  • Twitter in court: Why not streaming video?

    Twitter coverage of the AFACT vs. iiNet trial is breathing new life into court reporting. Why don't we as a society take the next step and stream it all live to the internet, video and audio?

  • Aussie ICT should de-couple from the US

    Australia needs to do more to de-couple itself from an over-reliance on the boom or bust impacts that the US ICT Industry brings to Australia's own ICT industry.

  • Telstra stalwarts to lead NBN Co

    Mike Quigley and Doug Campbell's long-standing relationships with Telstra and few of its rivals will lead Australia's telecommunications industry to question privately whether Telstra will receive a phenomenal level of access to the NBN decision-making processes.

  • Understanding Trujillo

    Sol Trujillo has, not for the first time and perhaps not for the last, ignited a furore, this time over his charge that Australians are racist. While his broader comments mischaracterise a country generally welcoming to people of different cultural backgrounds, there is also some validity to them when it comes to the way he was treated during his stint here.

  • Trujillo was a costly mistake for Telstra

    We can now conclude that Telstra went backwards during the Trujillo era, and that the board's decision in June 2005 to sack Ziggy Switkowski and install a team of expensive Americans to run the company was a mistake.

Videos (3)

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    Visting Club Builder this week: Steve Ballmer to speak in Australia, local ISPs say Net Neutrality is an American problem and we look at the best dressed from Tech.Ed

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    The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the net neutrality debate as solely a US problem and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.

  • American Red Cross: Steve Cooper, CIO

    In this CIO Vision Series interview, American Red Cross CIO Steve Cooper talks about lessons learnt from Hurricane Katrina and why creating an identity management system has become one of his biggest challenges.

Reviews (91)

  • HP iPAQ Voice Messenger

    The iPAQ Voice Messenger is at best, mediocre. There's nothing here that HTC, BlackBerry or Apple don't already do better, and unless your company already has a great HP contract, it's hard to recommend.

  • Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition

    While Core i7 presents a new performance paradigm, the heinously gluttonous Australian prices will need to come down before it's accepted by the mainstream.

  • Dell Inspiron Mini 9

    The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is a prime example of the netbook form factor, and the best 8.9-inch one available.

  • Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Preferred

    Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 isn't perfect, but it's the best dictation software available.

  • Apple iTunes 7

    iTunes 7 includes some great updates, like gapless playback, games downloads and a better interface, but Australian users so far miss out on the movie downloads available to American users.

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