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    Telstra chief David Thodey has signed an agreement with the telco's key unions outlining the principles that will guide negotiations over its new enterprise agreement.

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    Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin has introduced a private members' bill to subject the Government's $43 billion National Broadband Network to a cost/benefit analysis by Infrastructure Australia.

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    Copyright protection without the court action

    Will new business models cut down the amount of people breaking the law, reduce the market for pirates and remove the need for litigation?

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    If Melbourne University spin-off Manjrasoft can find the venture capital funds it stands a strong chance its technology could prove a winner.

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    Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.

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    What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.

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    Optus CEO Paul O'Sullivan had it right when he said that the new National Broadband Network would be a commercial failure unless there was only one network that included Telstra's fixed-line assets.

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    Business users looking for a competent, no-nonsense smartphone will like the E72 for its breadth of features and stylish design.

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    The Apple MacBook may look the same as before, but it's had a Spring makeover and is now a better deal than ever.

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    Dell's Latitude E6400 is a full featured business laptop that delivers on performance, battery life and price in one neat bundle.

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