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  • Adelaide councils tackle broadband blackspots

    Two of Adelaide's largest councils have identified significant unmet demand for broadband services in their regions and are attempting to work with the telecommunications industry to solve the problem.

  • Amsterdam to evaluate open source

    The city of Amsterdam has become the latest high-profile public sector organisation to evaluate the potential of open-source software.

  • States speechless on digital education funding

    After the Federal government was forced over the weekend to fend off claims that its digital education revolution is already coming unstuck, the offices of a number of the country's state education ministers have maintained a steady silence ahead of an intergovernmental meeting to discuss the next round of funding.

  • Digital education revolution: who's got the tab?

    Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard revealed this week that the onus for funding federal Labor's digital education revolution will fall more heavily on the states than first expected, prompting raised eyebrows from some and the ire of the Opposition.

  • 'Green light' to mobile phone cancer study

    The New South Wales Cancer Council has been allocated just over one million dollars to investigate links between cancer and mobile phone use in the two major capitals. Researchers admit they still know very little about the dangers, if any.

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  • Senate Select finds Tassie is in the dark

    Next month the Senate Select Committee on the NBN will table its final report. It will reflect the views of 100 or so submitted documents and a series of public hearings.

  • E-health too unsexy for COAG

    There will always be something more politically sexy than e-health for state governments, meaning the National E-Health Transition Authority's business case for a national electronic medical record might just sit on the shelf gathering dust forever.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra's 100Mbps: The great PSTN robbery

    Many Australians are drooling at the prospect of 100Mbps broadband, but Trujillo seems to have a bigger endgame in mind. As Telstra poaches customers from the PSTN and NBN, he'll leave more poison pills than we've seen since Phar Lap.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Is cable the answer to our broadband woes?

    Somewhere along the line, it became assumed that xDSL technologies -- which run over the last-mile of wiring so tightly controlled by Telstra -- were the only way forward for Australian broadband.

Features and Case Studies (16)

  • Australian e-health: Where to from now?

    What this new NEHTA funding has done is ensured that its leaders feel vindicated in the way they have behaved they have essentially been 'patted on the head' and any real stimulus for 'root and branch' change has been lost.

  • Scientists express joy at LHC switch-on

    ZDNet.com.au's sister site ZDNet.co.uk was at the Science & Technology Facilities Council event in Westminster to see, via video-link, the Large Hadron Collider being initiated. This photo gallery takes you inside the event, and the initial reactions of scientists.

  • Giant Aussie 2009 predictions round-up

    What will 2009 hold for Australia's ICT industry? We asked dozens of local leaders for their predictions; and this is what they came up with.

  • How do CIOs keep up with technology?

    Keeping up with changing technologies means CIOs have to go through a mountain of information, and then decide which of it if any is useful to their company. ZDNet.com.au delves into how they do it.

  • SME spend: opening the funds door

    How can small-to-medium businesses in Australia get a bigger piece of the Government spending pie?

Reviews (3)

  • AU researchers question mobile harm to humans

    The possible ill effects on human health of mobile phones and towers will be studied at a virtual centre comprised of research organisations from Victoria and South Australia.

  • Helping the public travel smarter

    Smart cards are anticipated to be the next generation in public transport ticketing systems. What are the obstacles faced in implementing them?

  • EU plans to avert tech eco-disaster

    The information technology boom and bust of the 1990s is leaving a lot more than worthless shares and frustrated investors in its wake; it is producing a mountain of electronic waste as technological advancements make computers and other devices containing toxic products obsolete at an increasing pace.

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    It was interesting to witness Conroy's recent enthusiasm to spruik the NBN's role in supporting the Smart Grid, Smart City initiative. What a pity that Conroy hadn't yet seen the damning report from the Victorian auditor-general about that state's smart-meter roll-out.
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