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  • Gartner Symposium Sydney: Photos

    Since Tuesday, Gartner has been holding its annual ITXPO, or Symposium, at Sydney's Darling Harbour.

  • Rubber chicken dinner for Tassie fundraiser?

    Executives who attended last night's state Labor Party fundraiser with the Tasmanian premier and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy could expect "rubber chicken" for dinner, but not to influence future policy, according to a source familiar with the fundraising circuit.

  • NBN plan 'tantamount to Telstra separation'

    Analysts have responded to the Federal Government's new NBN strategy with optimism, noting that while risky, the plan makes an important break from years of stagnation and promises an important new foundation for Australia's broadband future.

  • Telstra mini-bid risks jobs, claims ACTU

    Telstra's submission of what appeared to be a non-compliant National Broadband Network bid put the jobs of its workers at risk, the Australian Council of Trade Unions said today.

  • Sun sheds light on its open-source future

    Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development.

Blogs (7)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    NBN: Now we are Tolkien

    Like the one ring of Sauron, the power of Telstra's copper loop twists the minds of its ever-scheming board, which hid in its Collins Street boardroom until it was wrenched from its grasp by the forces of deregulation and the undead armies of ACCC head Graeme Samuel.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Fowl play foiled, Telstra's fairy tale is over

    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?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Once a pit bull, Terria is losing its bite

    The inference that Soul, AAPT and TransACT were Dead Telcos Walking long before their withdrawals were announced makes me wonder whether Terria has always been, God help us all, just as flimsy a proposition as Telstra has made it out to be.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    In carriers' high-def future, pants are the real winners

    As anybody who works from home knows, one of the great benefits of telecommuting is that pants are optional. Wear your pyjamas to that teleconference, or attend in your birthday suit if you prefer; nobody will be the wiser.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    ADSL2+: A wholesale disaster for Telstra shareholders?

    A guy I know runs a tiling business, which as far as I can see involves his drinking lots of coffee, making lots of phone calls, and making sure that around a dozen different tilers do the actual hard work. As long as they're busy, he's making money. If he finds enough new business to keep them all going for two weeks, he can take off for Hawaii -- and still be making money.

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  • Understanding Trujillo

    Sol Trujillo has, not for the first time and perhaps not for the last, ignited a furore, this time over his charge that Australians are racist. While his broader comments mischaracterise a country generally welcoming to people of different cultural backgrounds, there is also some validity to them when it comes to the way he was treated during his stint here.

  • NBN plan 'tantamount to Telstra separation'

    Analysts have responded to the Federal Government's new NBN strategy with optimism, noting that while risky, the plan makes an important break from years of stagnation and promises an important new foundation for Australia's broadband future.

  • When a vacuum becomes vacuous

    The silence clinging to Stephen Conroy's National Broadband Network deliberations may have fried some brains in Australia's telecommunications industry.

  • Where did Microsoft's DRM vision go?

    Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.

  • The essence of a Geek

    A general rise in technical literacy driven by gadgets such as the iPod could be evidence that 'geekery' as a personality trait is becoming more pervasive.

Reviews (19)

  • Fujitsu LifeBook N6460

    Amongst the monster "laptops" there's been a heavy focus on multimedia and power, and to a degree, the Fujitsu does well here -- the speakers, lack of Bluetooth and price being the only things that truly cripple it.

  • AMD vs. Intel: 10 notebooks tested

    We put two of the toughest chip makers up against each other to see which has the biggest heart for notebooks.

  • Scientists team up for nanotube breakthrough

    Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley have come up with a way to grow carbon nanotubes on silicon wafers and to test the nanotubes, which could help pave the way for carbon chips.

  • Making the upgrade

    You've got a lot invested in that current infrastructure, but there are those who are telling you it's time to upgrade. When is really the right time?

  • Who's buying 3G?

    Commentary: As we're constantly barraged by ads for various 'next-generation' phone services, it's worthwhile stopping to wonder if we're being sold something we've already got.

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