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    Trials carried out on the technology for Victoria's massive smart meter roll-out failed to provide "reasonable assurance" on its viability, according to the Victorian Auditor-General in a report slamming the project.

  • Strong AAPT still faces challenges

    AAPT has posted strong first quarter earnings but its New Zealand owner predicts weaker performances ahead as the Australian telco continues to "reinvent" itself.

  • Bank of Queensland squeezes outsourcers

    Bank of Queensland said yesterday that it has put its outsourcing relationships under the microscope as the second phase of its cost cutting drive.

  • Defence seals Gershon-Microsoft deal

    Minister for Finance and Deregulation Lindsay Tanner today announced that Defence had locked down its first Gershon-related procurement deal with software giant Microsoft.

  • Citrix cuts to hit Australia

    Australian staff at software company Citrix will be subject to a global restructure which aims to slash headcount by 10 per cent and cut expenses by US$50 million.

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    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.

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

  • Hutch and Voda's crossed lines

    The merger of Vodafone and Hutchison will create a strong mobile competitor ... but the ACCC's Graeme Samuel would be well advised to keep a close eye on what the deal will mean for business and consumers.

  • British Airways CIO: the interview

    British Airways chief information officer Paul Coby can justifiably claim more than most of his peers to have had a tough time coping with the economic slowdown and cuts in IT budgets.

  • Green your datacentre or it may go dark

    Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.

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  • Voice over IP + wireless LAN = ?

    It seemed to be an obvious recipe: take two popular emerging technologies and stir vigorously. But the end result isn't to everyone's taste.

  • Getting attached to your network

    We review four network attached storage (NAS) appliances designed to ease the storage load on your servers and the workload on your admins.

  • Telstra to equip field workers with PDAs

    Telstra will start to deploy personal digital assistants to nearly 8000 field workers early in the New Year, a move with significant cost savings and which should progressively improve the integrity of information stored on its database.

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