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  • Telstra workers get long service reprieve

    Draft laws allowing Telstra workers to remain under Commonwealth long service leave rules have passed the lower house.

  • NEHTA to test health ID this year

    The National E-Health and Transition Authority (NEHTA) has today released its strategy for 2009 to 2012, listing priorities and timelines to enable e-health, including developing an "office" model for health identifiers by December.

  • SA Health plans statewide ERP system

    South Australia's Department of Health has gone to market for the supply and implementation of an enterprise resource planning and asset management system to be deployed statewide across health institutions.

  • Australia's giant e-waste recycling centre: Photos

    The largest e-waste recycling centre in the southern hemisphere was opened this week in Sydney's Villawood amid controversy over the Federal Government's refusal to commit to a mandatory e-waste recycling policy.

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    Tourist industries in most states have collaborated to create a national tourism accreditation portal which eases the process of tourist businesses becoming certified.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ten things holding back tech

    Ever get the feeling that we aren't quite yet where we want to be? Here are 10 factors that may be holding back the world's technological development.

  • The next Internet revolution is coming

    "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come," said Howard Charney, Cisco's senior vice president, borrowing from Victor Hugo to summarise the power of the Internet.

  • Consumers rights still lagging: ACA chief

    In an exclusive interview, the Australian Communications Authority's retiring chairman Dr Bob Horton explains why consumer rights continue to lag. He touches on other topics including regulating mobile adult content.

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Reviews (3)

  • Practical nanotechnology

    Nanotechnology is constantly finding itself in the headlines. But are microscopic machines an inevitable part of our future, or just another hype-heavy get-rich-quick ruse?

  • PCs: More than 1 billion served

    Approximately 1 billion PCs have been shipped worldwide since the mid-'70s, according to a recent study released by consulting firm Gartner.

  • Fighting flab the PDA way

    A Singapore team has developed a handheld-based solution that puts a nutritionist, personal trainer and therapist into the hands of weight-worried Singapore students.

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