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• Upstart ASG nudges the big boys

  Aussie IT services group ASG has thrown down the gauntlet publicly to its much larger international rivals as it posted steep jumps in revenue and profits for the past financial year.

• Mincom drops 100 staff

  Mincom has confirmed that it let 100 employees go in February as it underwent a restructure to shunt it into a new strategy and manage its costs.

• SMS' NSW director follows staff out

  SMS Management and Techhnology has lost its NSW managing director Linda Chapman for health reasons.

• IT spending stuck in Gershon wake

  Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner yesterday said he didnt know how long it would take to reignite IT spending in Canberra following the Gershon review.

• UXC snaps up IT services minnow

  Australian diversified IT services firm UXC has acquired local system integrator Ingena Group Limited for an undisclosed sum in what UXC has called a friendly takeover.

Blogs (35)

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  CIO 'owns' the un-hacked Mac Mini

  The new and improved Mac hack competition, which was set up by an Apple systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin in response to a ZDNet Australia story shut down early because the university's CIO was concerned about "security and network access".

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  Bluff called, can Conroy still tame Telstra?

  How well Stephen Conroy handles Telstra's challenge will determine whether we're hurtling towards a great new era in telecommunications, or fated to even more years stuck in the grip of Telstra's well-entrenched market position.

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  Start-up outlook: A national disgrace

  The fact that Australia won't be represented at either of the globe's pre-eminent showcases for emerging tech companies should be considered a national disgrace.

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  Is Conroy backpedalling on separation mandate?

  Now that Minister Stephen Conroy has played his hand regarding Telstra's separation, the hard part begins.

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  Telstra's last-mile strategy: Broadband limbo

  Should Telstra be investing in a pre-emptive defence against the NBN? Or should it go slow and wait like everybody else?

Features and Case Studies (651)

• Aussie ICT should de-couple from the US

  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.

• Gershon's Groundhog Day

  What Gershon proposes is nothing more or less than a wide-scale, transformational change program. These unfortunately, rarely meet with complete success.

• The hacker challenge

  Security systems continue to get more sophisticated--and so do the hackers who are seeking to break through them. How can you best combine your defences to protect your company networks?

• Crown copyright still a challenge

  In the tragic circumstances that unfolded in Victoria on Black Saturday, no one could deny that as the fires raced across public land towards their homes, those residents had a clear right to information.

• Raising the mid-market ICT bar

  There are as always exceptions, but most ICT vendors are simply not doing the right thing by the thousands of SME customers in Australia and New Zealand.

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  Ray Gilbert, assistant vice president for IT enterprise collaboration at Alcatel Lucent, tells ZDNet.com editor-in-chief Dan Farber how the telecom services provider is addressing mobility needs and convergence challenges for the next generation of digital devices.

Reviews (158)

• Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

  SCVMM 2008 R2 is a very competent product, neatly bringing Microsoft's virtualisation management offering in line with the competition at the same time as offering management of disparate platforms in the one product. The integration with the rest of the Systems Center suite makes the overall management and monitoring experience better than its rivals.

• QNAP TS-509 Pro

  The QNAP TS-509 Pro comes highly recommended it's a flexible NAS with an interface that's gaining usability as time goes on.

• Lotus Foundations Start

  Lotus Foundations is a great solution for a wide range of businesses because it takes away the need for an on-site IT guru, and minimises management overheads so staff can get on with core business activities.

• Dell M209X projector

  The Dell M209X is a dependable projector that's inexpensive to maintain as long as you don't mind the dull colours.

• Google Analytics

  If you're wary of Google knowing everything about your business and your web site, then Google Analytics is not for you. But for most, it's a useful ally in a challenging business climate.

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