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• Lotus Notes losing Aussie email war?

  IBM's Lotus Notes/Domino collaboration suite is facing a long-term threat to its survival on Australian corporate desktops, according to local analyst house Longhaus; but IBM disagrees.

• Telstra rivals Twitter quietly

  A number of Telstra's major broadband rivals have said they have no immediate plans to follow the telco's lead and use the Twitter micro-blogging service to monitor service outages and contact customers about support plans, although a closer look shows Optus to be one of the only large carriers not using the tool.

• Hypervisor, who cares? Show me the money

  Hypervisors are just the skirmish before the virtualisation war proper, according to vendors and analysts, with virtualisation management set to pull in the big bucks in years to come.

• Western Power outsources $15m IT to beat skills crisis

  CSC has been awarded an outsourcing contract worth up to AU$21 million by West Australian electricity provider Western Power.

• Mac clones to start shipping in seven days

  Mac-compatible systems running on standardised hardware will start shipping in seven days, according to a US firm which claims to have developed them but skeptics doubt whether the system exists.

Blogs (3)

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  Dongles out, 3G netbooks are swinging

  Sure, better 3G coverage is good for competition, but it's what you do with the 3G that will ultimately make the difference. As Vodafone expands its network footprint, the practice of selling 3G-enabled netbooks like mobile phones should really resonate with end users.

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  Forget the raised floor, where are the generators?

  The components that make up a modern datacentre often look disturbingly like commodity items: a server here, a rack there, spaghetti tangles of cable everywhere. But there's one item that is still something of a rarity -- and no, I'm not talking about the expertise needed to run it.

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  Helen Coonan's fact hunt

  In the broadband war, it seems, everyone has an opinion and those with a vested interest are playing fast and loose with the truth.

Features and Case Studies (119)

• Wanted: IT saviour for Vic Police

  Victoria Police needs to appoint a pinch-hitter chief information officer with a mandate to implement a long-term solid ICT strategy and scrub the bilge from its decks.

• 10 ideas for Australian ICT policy

  There is currently a great deal of gloom and doom about the state of the Australian ICT sector. Here's 10 ideas for moving ahead.

• How do you return stolen bank credentials?

  Sceptical that Australians are targeted by cybercrime? Late last year the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) was asked to repatriate hundreds of Commonwealth Bank customer credentials which had been stolen via the ZeuS trojan.

• Farr the reformer talks Defence

  A year from taking on perhaps the toughest IT job in the country, Defence chief information officer Greg Farr is staring down the barrel of a massive ICT reform agenda for 2009 that will reveal whether Defence got the "expert CIO" they needed.

• RFID round-up: Still in the trough

  Despite its clear benefits in stock tracking and the success of early, isolated pilot tests in tracking high-value assets, RFID technology is still spinning its wheels as ongoing high costs and unclear return on investment continue to keep once-enthusiastic customers away in droves.

Reviews (34)

• Tandberg DPS1200 VTL

  While the lack of supported online expansion and de-dupe is a concern, if you need your tape backups to go faster, Tandberg's DPS1200 VTL may deliver what you need.

• Thecus N7700

  The N7700 is one heck of a NAS box if you need something to take seven drives and have nowhere to put a rack mount unit.

• Asus Eee PC S101

  Asus packs the same basic components found in other Netbooks into a stylish, slim chassis for a modest premium in price, with some unfortunate keyboard-layout compromises.

• Enterprise PDA phones reviewed

  The new wave of hybrid PDA business phones are here. The gadget gurus from RMIT decide who talks the talk.

• BenQ DW1620

  This 16X double-layer drive is fast and affordable, but an 8X or 12X drive would be fast enough for most situations, and they're a better bargain, too.

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