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    Telstra is on the brink of axing 100 jobs from its Melbourne global operations centre, the Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) claimed today.

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    Yesterday at CeBIT, Australian Government Information Management Office division manager for business improvement John Sheridan outlined exactly how much the Federal Government hoped to save on its business as usual information technology spend over the next few years.

  • Fresh job cuts for EDS Australia

    Australian EDS staff have suffered a fresh round of job cuts this week, according to sources, as local employees vote on whether to accept a 10 per cent pay cut handed down globally.

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    Does Conroy's FUD make a Ludd of Rudd?

    Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.

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    Can the NBN survive the recession?

    In times of financial crisis, it's inevitable that companies reassess their financial plans.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

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    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.

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    Conroy faces a showdown at the FTTN corral

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    Conroy's Six: Can FTTN's gatekeepers deliver?

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  • Fostering a better Kaz future with Fujitsu

    For the first time, Kaz chief Mike Foster tells the full story about how the Peter Kazacos' baby was treated within Telstra, and how the deal with Fujitsu went down.

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    Despite Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's assurances to the contrary, in my crystal ball I'm seeing a broadband price rise coming to millions of Australians once the National Broadband Network has been built.

  • 10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

    As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.

  • Datacentre 2020: Greener, faster, more flexible

    The average datacentre lasts between 15 and 20 years, so when the current generation of datacentres near the end of their working life, will their replacements be at all familiar?

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    OpenOffice 2.4, which was released on Thursday, comes with an assortment of collaboratively engineered bug fixes and small, but significant, usability enhancements.

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    AOC's latest 19-inch monitor from its Jenio range has brilliant colours and great ergonomics, but we would have liked to have seen a faster refresh rate than 60Hz at its native resolution.

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    Can the addition of GPS on HP's latest PDA-phone inject some much-needed oomph back into the dwindelling PDA market?

  • First Take: Adobe Atmosphere

    Atmosphere is a decent prosumer app for small businesses and educators who want to promote an interactive Web experience.

  • MyDoom is YourDoom

    Viruses like MyDoom spread more quickly than warm butter on toast. Why?

  • Adobe Premiere Pro

    Existing Premiere users will want to switch to this version straight away; newcomers to video editing will also find it less daunting, but still extremely powerful.

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