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    Telstra shareholders travelled from far and wide to vent their frustrations as owners and customers to the telco's chairperson, Catherine Livingstone and chief David Thodey.

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    NBN Co chief Mike Quigley has announced the appointment of two new executives, including Alcatel Lucent's former chief financial officer.

  • DIAC to unleash release this weekend

    The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) is going ahead with release nine of its mammoth Systems for People project this weekend, an effort which had its content rejigged because of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's detention policy.

  • Budget '09: Immigration gets IT boost

    The Department of Immigration and Citizenship was at pains to stress the savings gained from the completion of its Systems for People IT project in the Federal Budget tonight.

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    Ubuntu can't cut geek support umbilical

    Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was officially released overnight and marked the eleventh release of the distribution. It's attractive, polished and measured, but fails "the grandma test".

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Seven vividly proves WiMax not dead yet

    It wasn't too long ago that critics of WiMax wireless technology were declaring it dead at the starting gate.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Facts on the iiNet AFACT case

    This week's Twisted Wire podcast looks at some of the claimed facts surrounding the controversial lawsuit against iiNet regarding copyright infringement by its customers.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Et tu, Internode?

    Is Hackett the Saruman the once-good wizard who is seduced by the dark powers of Sauron of my recent Lord of the Rings scenario? Is something rotten in Renmark and elsewhere?

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    Microsoft and Google need to step up a Gear

    In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?

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    I've been puttering around in Google Wave for the best part of a week now, and I understand it, but I have no idea in hell what I'm supposed to be using it for.

  • Tweaking Twitter for the enterprise

    The key for organisations wanting to learn how to best utilise Twitter lies in understanding the subtle differences between it and other social networking tools.

  • Telco 2008: A year in review

    2008 was a cracker year for telco in Australia, with so many huge events happening that those at the beginning of the year have been drowned by the importance of those at the end.

  • Web Directions South: Photos

    Thousands of Australian Web technologists and internet workers are attending the Web Directions South conference in Sydney this week. We dropped in to see what all the fuss was about.

  • Commentary: For and against Gate's 'creative capitalism'

    Two writers from ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com, Michael Kanellos and Declan McCullagh, debate Bill Gates' call for businesses to allocate resources that could alleviate problems in the developing world.

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    Western Digital's My Book Mirror Edition is good value, and if the lack of transfer speed doesn't deter, then short of an NAS it's one of the better ways consumers can keep their data safe.

  • Western Digital My Passport Elite (320GB)

    Western Digital's My Passport Elite is a quiet portable hard drive with a generous warranty. For the warranty, price and capacity, we found it to be excellent.

  • NComputing X300

    NComputing's X300 provides a cost-effective way to hang up to six terminals off a single desktop PC using low-power, secure, easy to administer and quiet access terminals. It's not for power users, but is well suited to schools, business workgroups, libraries and internet cafes.

  • Telstra F165

    Dubbed the "Country Phone" Telstra's F165 sure looks the part. A rugged, rubberised candy-bar form factor with an extendable external antenna masks powerful HSDPA connectivity.

  • A heavy load for the iPhone to bear

    It's sleek and it's sexy, but still must contend with issues from price to typing speed and wireless realities.

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