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• Conroy: NBN won't be an eyesore

  Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy today assured local council representatives that the National Broadband Network (NBN) fibre infrastructure would not be an eye-sore on their landscapes.

• UK council ditches Novell for Microsoft

  Lincolnshire County Council in the UK has started shifting thousands of workers from Novell to Microsoft systems as part of an IT overhaul.

• Auckland gets metro Wi-Fi service

  Denizens of and visitors to New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, can look forward to affordable wireless broadband in many areas from this week, as a metropolitan Wi-Fi network goes live in town.

• Cairns Council in comms overhaul extravaganza

  Cairns City Council has embarked on a telecoms overhaul that will see more than 1,000 users switch to VoIP and could even lead to the adoption of dual-mode Wi-Fi/cellular phones and the deployment of public hotspots.

• Internode broadband to rural SA rescue

  Internode will deploy some AU$3.5 million of broadband infrastructure through rural South Australia in a new project responding to the needs of a regional group of local councils.

Blogs (5)

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  Trust us with the NBN; we're politicians

  As Rudd and Conroy railroad the NBN into reality, the Liberals are trying to inject some due process into the whole thing by holding Labor accountable for its decisions. However, with the future of Australian telecoms on the line and no real viable alternative, is it just a bit late for accountability?

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  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.

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  Sticky situations for USB stick support

  There's an argument against the usage of USB sticks which has been discussed many times in this column: they're a potentially massive security risk. But there's another case you could make against having your business life stored in 4GB or so of flash memory it's a total support nightmare.

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  All they are saying, is give WiMax a chance

  South Australia's Yorke Peninsula with just 11,780 people spread across 5,834 square kilometres, is known more for its rugged natural beauty than its technological prowess. But now that Internode has brought broadband to the entire peninsula, the area has become a very important part of Australia's telegeography.

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  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 (33)

• Bankstown print refresh boosts green space

  For Bankstown City Council, a 170,000-resident council south-west of Sydney, a desire to regain control of its printing environment -- and to reduce its impact on the environment -- recently led to a complete reconsideration of its printing, scanning and faxing processes.

• Thin clients a permanent fixture at Maroochy Shire

  New technology gains legitimacy when it solves real business problems, but becomes indispensable when it offers to take that business in completely new directions. Such has been the case at Maroochy Shire Council, where a quite conventional thin-client rollout is now facilitating new ways of working for employees in the office and on the road.

• Stop buying IT you don't need

  'Rightsizing' need not be ominous management-speak for losing your job. Here's how to make sure your IT infrastructure is the right size for the job.

• 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.

• 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.

Reviews (2)

• 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.

• Biometrics special: Who are you?

  Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.

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