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News (25)

• Group 8 moves on post-Commander

  The Group 8 cluster of federal agencies that signed a collective IT outsourcing arrangement with Commander-owned Volante in 2000 are moving on as the contract nears its end on 26 June.

• Telstra slams ACCC court foray

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) decision to take Telstra to court for allegedly lying about being unable to provide wholesale services to other carriers was a waste of court time and money, the telco said today.

• E-Health: Australia's $5bn black hole

  Australia's health sector has made only "marginal" progress towards being able to exchange information electronically, despite governments investing more than $5 billion in the field over the last 10 years, according to a report released late last week.

• Has the IT security model been broken by Web 2.0?

  A legal case against Facebook which accuses the social network site of not keeping young users safe is the result of a dysfunctional IT security model dogging Web 2.0, according to privacy advocates and security analysts.

• Telstra: G9 is 'expensive, dangerous, dysfunctional'

  Telstra has published a response to the G9 consortium's fibre-to-the-node proposal, calling it an expensive and dangerous proposal that "imposes a tortured, dysfunctional ownership and management structure"

Blogs (2)

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  Do we need the legislative blackmail?

  Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.

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  Is there room for a fourth screen?

  Last week, BigPond launched a new mobile telly offering, smartly named BigPond TV (knew you'd like it), with the usual selection of clips and full programs, old favourites and made for mobile. So will BigPond succeed where so many have struggled?

Features and Case Studies (15)

• Changing of the guard: Westpac

  Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the technology operation of Westpac Banking Corporation and its subsidiary St George in the last of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

• Telstra 2.0 won't solve the problem

  Former Communications Minister Richard Alston writes that it is critically important to reinvigorate the competitive process in Australia's telecommunications industry with the National Broadband Network and not simply replace one behemoth with another.

• Sun's chiefs on the hot seat

  Scott McNealy sees glory days ahead for new CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Are they cut from the same cloth?

• What is morale anyway?

  High morale is more than mere enthusiasm. Find out how other factors come into play in shaping your team's morale.

• Lessons to be learnt from Sasser

  We had the tools to stop the worm dead in its tracks, but it still exacted a high toll in lost productivity, and in the case of the sailors at sea around the coast of England, created a real risk to life.

Reviews (2)

• Will robots spit the dummy?

  Why build an angry robot? We talk to the authors of a system that will bring emotional feelings to aircraft, fridges and household appliances.

• Microsoft Windows Me

  The name says it all. Microsoft Windows Me -- short for Millennium Edition -- is designed for individual home users, not for business. Available as an update package , Windows Me is the most radical upgrade yet in the Windows 9x family.

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