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    The Western Australian government has awarded Oracle an AU$67 million contract to help consolidate the back office functions of more than 100 of its agencies into three.

  • Rottnest Island needs CIO

    The authority which oversees Rottnest Island, near Fremantle in Western Australia, has advertised for a new chief information officer, allocating a salary of up to $88,131.

  • WA's Perth to be the Aussie Silicon Valley?

    Western Australia is to sport Australia's own Silicon Valley, according to state Industry and Enterprise Minister Francis Logan, who yesterday revealed the country's biggest technology park will be based in Perth.

  • iiNet to buy Westnet for $81 million

    ASX-listed ISP iiNet is to buy fellow West Australian service provider Westnet for AU$81 million in cash.

  • Satellite killed the radio comms in $21m WA network

    Medical information will soon be shooting across Western Australia's regional expanses, with the development of a new AU$21.3 million medical communications network which will cover 2.55 million square kilometres and reach 454,000 people.

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    Aussie smartcard vendor ERG has decided to outsource to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and you can't help but think of the Qantas example.

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    HP this week staged its first software forum for the Asia Pacific region at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney.

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    IT director Bob Berg tells ZDNet Australia how Western Australia's Department of Attorney-General and Corrective Services overcame complex document management for 40 separate Web sites.

  • Straight to the source: CSC's George Bell

    Is outsourcing a viable solution for large-scale IT organisations in Australia? We ask George Bell, CEO of CSC Australia, for his views on how the company plans to grow in today's tough market.

  • Have (IT) certs will travel?

    Is certification better than experience? Here's what industry analysts and IT professionals have to say, including issues with MCSE.

  • Top tech jobs for 2006

    After years in the wilderness, the Australian IT industry is again booming as major industries invest heavily in their IT infrastructure. Find out which skills are most in demand and how much remuneration to expect.

  • 10 ways to improve network performance

    If a car starts to stall, drivers would pop the bonnet and check the individual components. But when a network goes down, how are the weak points identified and isolated?

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  • Asus W5A

    Spritely performance and an attractive case design makes the Asus ideal for home office tasks in an IKEA-obsessed age.

  • Bandwidth buffering solved

    For Australia's remote rural web users, relying on a dial-up modem has meant that video technology is still a long way off.

  • 3G: Not just for bankers

    3G mobile technology is a bit like getting a phone line installed: it'll be there next week, promise. By the time 3G arrives, will it be obsolete?

  • Practical nanotechnology

    Nanotechnology is constantly finding itself in the headlines. But are microscopic machines an inevitable part of our future, or just another hype-heavy get-rich-quick ruse?

  • Australian ISP Shootout

    The Internet is in the process of taking over our lives, so if you aren't connected, maybe it is time you were.

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