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  • G9 appoints Michael Egan as FTTN bid chairman

    The G9 consortium announced the appointment of former NSW state Treasurer Michael Egan as its national broadband network (NBN) bid chairman, amid mounting concern over the July deadline for proposals.

  • G9 pesters public for Telstra break-up

    The G9 consortium has launched an online petition to compel the Federal government to include a structural separation component as part of the incumbent's contract should it win the bid for the national broadband network.

  • Yang unlikely to yield to Ballmer

    Yahoo may indeed agree to Microsoft's US$44.6 billion bear hug, but it will be over Jerry Yang's dead body.

  • PeopleSoft: Conway was less than honest

    A PeopleSoft board member testified Monday that former CEO Craig Conway was fired in large part because of his reckless exaggeration to Wall Street analysts when informing them last year that Oracle's offer to buy the company was no longer a disruptive influence.

  • New G9 boss insulted by Telstra network details

    Former Soul CEO Michael Simmons will be taking up duties overseeing G9's bid for the national broadband network, and has today called for the ACCC to intervene in the tender process.

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    Could you believe in Steve?

    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.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

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

    Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.

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  • Interview: Red Hat's new CEO

    Red Hat's new chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, talks about the Linux maker in an extensive interview with ZDNet Australia sister site CNet News.

  • PeopleSoft calls Oracle bid 'atrocious'

    Oracle on Friday announced a surprise US$5.1 billion takeover bid for enterprise software maker PeopleSoft, only a few days after PeopleSoft said it was acquiring rival J.D. Edwards for $1.7 billion.

  • Yahoo turns to Google after Microsoft deal ends

    On Saturday, Microsoft formally withdrew its offer to acquire the search pioneer, at least for now. So what happens next for Yahoo? A deal with Google looks likely.

  • Microsoft to try again for Yahoo or for Facebook?

    With Yahoo apparently off the table, what's Microsoft's back-up plan? Try again for Yahoo or go for a new target?

  • Making the security ROI model work

    Chief Security Officers face a challenging quandary at budget-time because the traditional return on investment (ROI) model falls apart when it is applied to security products but as that is the only language budget-approvers speak, what is a CSO to do?

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  • PC army tackles Xbox security code

    A growing army of PC owners is hoping to use the power of the masses to crack the main security code of Microsoft's Xbox and claim $100,000 in the process.

  • Apple unveils music store

    Apple Computer has unveiled its latest line of digital music products, including a long-awaited Internet music store and ultrathin versions of its popular iPod portable MP3 player.

  • Overdue Morpheus P2P program released

    File-swapping company StreamCast Networks has released a long-awaited new version of its Morpheus software, in a bid to recapture its once-unrivalled online popularity.

  • Human Transporter sales move slowly

    'Slow' best describes the speed and sales of the much-touted Segway two-wheeler.

  • Xbox unveiled

    Amid much pomp and fanfare in Vegas--including an appearance by pro wrestling's The Rock--Microsoft's chairman takes the wraps off the long-awaited game platform.

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