Putting the troubled history of its nowwearetalking website behind it, Telstra has re-launched its efforts to communicate with customers and stakeholders online, focused on a new blogging site dubbed "Telstra Exchange".
The chief of Australia's competition regulator last night said it was too soon to know what sort of issues would arise if the National Broadband Network Company became another government-owned monopoly telco player in the style of Telstra.
Telstra should move quickly to negotiate as favourable a strategic NBN position possible, analysts have warned after the government's bombshell announcement yesterday that it would separate the telco's retail and wholesale operations if the company didn't voluntarily separate first.
The Federal Government's Productivity Commission has warned of "optimism bias" in the application of a cost-benefit analysis to the National Broadband Network.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) received a day of grace to prepare for legal action from Telstra, which alleged the unions had provided false information to employees.
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Like many, I expected Telstra's dismissal was inevitable, given that it had openly flouted the NBN's guidelines and attempted to bend the process to its own wishes. But who would have expected it so soon?
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.
So, it seems the WOW -- for Microsoft's Windows Vista -- is not now, but sometime in the future, maybe.
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If you think your job is stressful, just consider what Tony Clasquin used to do for a living: a pilot who used to work as an air traffic controller (ATC), he learned early on to manage "this very complicated 3D chessboard".
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.
The release of the iPhone 3G in July 2008 led to the creation of an entire industry where developers worked on their own applications to sell through Apple's App Store. This trend has since been picked up by larger companies. Read about why such a phenomenon is fast becoming a success.
Like Rudd, the ingrained cynicism and frustration at things not going to plan in Australia's telecommunications industry blinds ACCC chair Graeme Samuel to the possibility that he is part of the problem.
The Dell M209X is a dependable projector that's inexpensive to maintain as long as you don't mind the dull colours.
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This 3-megapixel snapshooter offers a 3X zoom for a great price, but image quality and performance don't rate as highly.
Macromedia's product line is very popular within the Web development community, but the recent versions of products introduced big changes.
We put the two biggest encyclopaedia brands on the market head to head. Which one has the bigger brain? Read our Australian review.
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