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    The New Zealand Government has issued a call for participants to join its national fibre roll-out under which it hopes to raise NZ$1.5 billion from the private sector.

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    The New Zealand Government is considering plans to use analog TV frequencies to provide wireless broadband to rural areas, Communications Minister Steven Joyce told the Korea Australia New Zealand (KANZ) Broadband Summit in Auckland yesterday.

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    The New Zealand Government's $1.5 billion investment in its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network faces lengthy delays as the government untangles 104 submissions on its broadband plan.

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    New Zealand's new Communications Minister Stephen Joyce has the gargantuan task of dragging New Zealand into the next broadband age, a labour which will take 10 years.

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    For the first time, Kaz chief Mike Foster tells the full story about how the Peter Kazacos' baby was treated within Telstra, and how the deal with Fujitsu went down.

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    Australia's IT industry needs to follow the example laid down in Queensland this week and band together to lobby for more government support instead of individual firms fruitlessly pushing their own campaigns.

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    Whirlpool founder Simon Wright explains how he built the influential broadband forum, what makes it tick, and why he won't commercialise the business.

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    Get an insider's look at Commonwealth Bank of Australia's technology operation with chief information officer Michael Harte in the first of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

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    Designed for truly mobile computing, there are two types of tablet PCs -- convertible and slate. In this guide, we show you what's available in Australia and whitepapers for making a business case to purchase Tablet PCs.

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    A new m-commerce service has moved to exploit existing bar-code scanning and mobile handset technology, with one of Sydney's premier venues poised to use it to process paying patrons for a forthcoming series of concerts.

  • SMS still cave-painting: Telstra

    Far from being a mature technology, SMS is still in the "cave-painting" stages, according to Giri Ramachandran, head of alliances and market development for Telstra.

  • Aust SMS enterprise apps set to launch

    An Australian company will today announce the distribution of a platform for enterprises to SMS-enable applications without needing to know complicated telephony protocols.

  • Opinion: "Buy more stuff!"

    In front of 95,000 people and a prime time television audience, John Polson, creative director for the Intel-Tropfest short-film festival, donned a figurative candy-striped suit to became technology's spruiker for a few moments at Sydney's Domain last Sunday. He read out the Intel prize (a PC package) for best cinematograhper with whiz-bang enthusiasm... but the crowd wasn't having a bar of it.

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