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  • LinkedIn appoints local chief

    LinkedIn has announced Clifford Rosenberg as the company's managing director for Australia and New Zealand.

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    The fact that the spectacular expansion of internet activity has continued, and even accelerated through the financial crisis shows that the global exchange of information does not depend, in any important way, on the global financial sector.

  • NBN plan too 'risky' for investors

    A telecommunications analyst from investment advisory service, BBY, has labelled the government's $43 billion NBN plan "as risky as it gets" and said it will fail to attract investors in the current information vacuum.

  • Macquarie Bank launches new internet platform

    Macquarie Bank has teamed up with finance news aggregator Wotnews to deliver a new retail online trading platform.

  • AAPT wants Optus reined in too

    AAPT chief executive Paul Broad has called on the government to boost the competition regulator's power to rein in both Telstra and Optus from moves he claimed were stifling competition in the fixed line and broadband markets.

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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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    The Swedes are doing it, so why can't we?

    I have never been to Sweden. In fact, I have no real, hard evidence that Sweden really exists as anything more than a collective, Utopian vision where things just work, and life is better.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Just how fast is fast, anyway?

    There's something immensely gratifying about accomplishing the seemingly impossible -- particularly in IT, where pundits regularly proclaim that a particular technology has hit its physical limits.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    The cons of convergence

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  • Changing of the guard: ANZ Bank

    Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's technology operation in the third of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

  • NSW missed Linux opportunity

    By choosing the safe Windows XP choice for student laptops, the NSW Department of Education and training is turning its back on the chance to turn hundreds of thousands of students into armchair developers and handcuffing itself to a rocky Windows 7 upgrade path.

  • Qld's ICT industry needs a great campaign

    Rather than attempt to focus on the industry issues we should turn our attention to reminding everyday voters why they need our industry. Let's make the message of the ICT industry's first great campaign simple: no ICT industry, no business.

  • Q&A: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst

    In this candid interview with ZDNet.com.au, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses why he thinks rival VMWare will fail, how the financial crisis will be good for open source, and why cloud computing will be the future.

  • Photos: The digital heroes of WW2

    As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.

Reviews (86)

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    The Agora brings the concept of a low-cost netbook firmly back on the agenda, but its woeful wireless performance seriously detracts from its value proposition.

  • Dell M109S projector

    There is much to both love and hate about Dell's M109S projector. It has a very low resolution, gets seriously hot, and is only 50 lumens in brightness. At the same time it's tiny, has the longest lamp life we have ever seen, and is mercury free.

  • The best mobile processor is...

    Today's notebooks come with a vast range of processors, but will they give you the best performance? Our comprehensive review benchmarks 19 of the latest mobile processors, giving you an insight into the best chips on the market.

  • Adobe Photoshop Express beta

    Adobe recently released a beta of their on-line version of Photoshop based on flash Photoshop Express. Despite terms of use that gives Adobe the rights to your photos, we think the beta version shows promise.

  • Samsung Z510

    The days of the 3G brick are numbered, with Samsung's Z510 joining the Motorola v3x in the slim and sexy category.

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