It was supposed to be a cake walk for Paul Fletcher, but the former Optus executive's ascension as MP for Bradfield has become less certain in recent days.
Sydney Water Corporation is in the midst of reviewing its in-house billing system, an aspiration which has previously landed it in hot water.
This morning at the National Maritime Museum, Microsoft launched its newest operating system, praising its new features and showing off the hardware which will run it.
Telstra has teamed up with Acer to add notebooks and laptops to its Next G range of devices, offering these machines on similar monthly contracts it sells mobile phones on.
The Ubuntu project has published a 'release candidate' or final testing version for the upcoming 9.04 version of its popular Linux distribution.
Little wonder these RIA on Linux discussions make me feel icky, as we can dial in at least another two years of proprietary plug-ins dominating on open-source desktops.
Keen news readers would have heard about the strong earthquake that rocked south-western Greece on Sunday. Fewer may have realised that the quake was not so much an act of God, as an act of Jobs.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
Hopefully, you've been spending your end-of-year break better than the executives at Optus, who seem to have taken advantage of the annual industry-wide lull to get onetime WiMax aspirant Austar United Telecommunications to the negotiating table.
Steve Jobs' backflip on a key aspect of the iPhone stood out from a normal day -- broadband furore, antagonistic marketing, personal attacks and government inaction -- in the world of Australia's telecoms market.
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Telstra will take every opportunity to both cast doubts on its rivals' capabilities and sow doubts in the minds of the legislators that might help to undermine the prospects of the displacement of its dominance of the fixed line space.
Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.
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Java has come full circle, and James Gosling has watched the 12-year journey. Gosling, who helped invent the Java programming language, talks about how Sun Microsystems plans to return Java to its roots and the role of the newly launched JavaFX Script.
It doesn't quite live up to its own battery hype, otherwise Asus' thin and light laptop is pretty good.
Lenovo's popular IdeaPad S10-2 netbook has been slimmed down and its price reduced, making it a better netbook as long as you can live without ExpressCard.
An easy-to-use netbook with a long battery life, but there are cheaper options.
Attempting to create a premium-priced version of a netbook, Sony has added an HD display to the Vaio W. It's an attractive step-up package, but the internal components are the same as are in cheaper models.
Dell's Mini 10v keeps a lot of the features of the more expensive Mini 10, while dropping the price to AU$549. It's one of only a handful of AU$600 netbooks that doesn't look and feel especially cheap.
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