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  • Telecom NZ to wholesale 3G network

    Competition looks set to hot up in the New Zealand mobile market, with Telecom New Zealand announcing plans today to accelerate its wholesaling plans.

  • Tanner: Telstra's Foxtel role "dreadful"

    Key cabinet ministers have given differing views on Telstra's ownership of Foxtel, as the government prepares to carve up the telco giant.

  • Wikileaks spills ACMA blacklist

    Whistle-blower web repository Wikileaks has published what appears to be the Australian Communications and Media Authority's blacklist of banned websites.

  • World Bank gets hacked

    The computer network used by the World Bank Group has suffered a series of at least six intrusions since mid-2007, according to a report.

  • Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft

    If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.

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  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Can the Telco Reform Act be win-win?

    In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Carriers in a tether over iPhone capabilities

    One of the more curious aspects of the iPhone phenomenon has been the disconnect between the device's capabilities and carriers' willingness to support them.

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    IPv6 hits NZ internet backbone

    The next-generation Internet Protocol, IPv6, has been much discussed but long in coming around the world.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    Free Wi-Fi: Where's the Fon in that?

    There's no such thing as a free lunch, so the old adage goes -- but is there such a thing as free Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi sharing company Fon thinks it has the answer, as does Google-backed start-up Meraki.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra still only cheers for Telstra

    The men running Telstra have been accused of a lot of things, but lack of conviction is definitely not one of them. I found this out recently after having the chance to hear Phil Burgess, the company's most senior regular spokesperson and an outspoken critic of the government's telecommunications policy, address an AIIA-sponsored business lunch in Melbourne.

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  • ATO's Change Agenda a 'black hole'

    The Australian Taxation's Change Program (which is best suited perhaps for simple formulaic tax collections, not complex audit, analysis and interpretation work) may collapse under its own dead weight.

  • Australia slipping behind in ICT innovation

    If a reminder was needed of the urgent need for a Federal Government response to the Cutler review of Australia's support for innovation, then it has come in the 2008 OECD Information Technology Outlook.

  • How Estonia's attacks shook the world

    The idea that attacks on computer systems could provide an alternative method of spreading terror and disruption has been a concern for governments since IT systems began to proliferate.

  • Photos: OLPC XO, Classmate and the Eee PC

    How do the three leading education-oriented ultraportable notebooks stack up? Take our visual tour to find out.

  • Commentary: For and against Gate's 'creative capitalism'

    Two writers from ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com, Michael Kanellos and Declan McCullagh, debate Bill Gates' call for businesses to allocate resources that could alleviate problems in the developing world.

Reviews (7)

  • Flat panels to outpace CRTs in 2004

    LCD monitors are set to take top honours on the desktop this year.

  • Intel chips to do double duty

    In the future, Intel's processors will have split personalities.

  • Do you copy? Over and out.

    Last week saw two legal wins for copyright owners in their battle against piracy, but raised questions of whether large corporations are playing fair in the marketplace. If they're so keen on globalisation and having a 'level playing field', lets see them walk the walk themselves.

  • Intel gears up for Prescott, wireless

    The company plans to launch Prescott, its next big desktop chip, in addition to its wireless wave-riding Pentium-M chip Dothan, later this year.

  • Tablet PCs gaining momentum

    As Microsoft gets ready to unveil Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, hardware manufacturers are readying tablet products for release.

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