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• Councils question NBN deployment issues

  Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy yesterday said local councils were knocking down his door to get the NBN first, but president of the Australian Local Government Association says there were questions over how it is deployed and local council autonomy.

• CenITex contracted CIO for $396k

  Victorian shared services agency CenITex signed a contract with its then CIO Bruce Carlos which agreed to pay him $396,000 for a year's work, the state's tendering system has revealed.

• CenITex reveals management team

  New Victorian government shared services agency Cenitex has revealed the management team that will lead its operations delivering ICT infrastructure and desktop shared services to the state government.

• CenITex leaves Unisys out in the cold

  As of next month, the Victorian Government's new shared services agency CenITex will take over Unisys' role providing IT support services within two Victorian government departments.

• UK firm buys Interwoven

  Autonomy, a Cambridge-based infrastructure software company, has agreed to buy US content-management software specialist Interwoven for US$775m.

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• Gershon pumpkin will vanish at midnight

  The long-term net impact of Gershon's idealistic review will realistically be negligible at best and at worst will prove to be a distraction for years to come.

• Gershon: Easier said than done

  Gershon's recommendations are consistent with those of other jurisdictions that have undertaken similar reviews, and are aimed at giving the ICT centralisation/decentralisation pendulum a shove back towards the centre. This is, however, easier said than done.

• CenITex needs to be governed for success

  Victoria appears set to leap into a new phase of government ICT with the creation of shared technology services agency CenITex, but challenges remain.

• Q&A: Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield

  In an interview with ZDNet.com.au, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts with us about the web, Google, Microsoft and Flickr's acquisition by Yahoo, as well as his recent departure from the US search giant.

• Who's taking the ITIL bait?

  In an industry known for its hype, it's understandably difficult for many managers to make sense of new trends. But in the case of IT Infrastructure Library, a growing body of success stories confirms this is one trend that you should definitely be on top of.

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• Autonomic transmission

  In an industry that loves buzzwords, autonomic computing continues to attract attention. Can the promise of self-managing IT systems ever be met, and how will businesses change if that happens?

• The Google gods

  Does the power of the world's most popular search engine pose a threat to the Web's independence?

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