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    Optus director of government and corporate affairs Maha Krishnapillai said today that although it planned to work with other internet service providers and the government on preventing internet piracy, it did not believe in sending alleged infringement notices to users.

  • Optus to finish HFC upgrade mid-year

    The nation's number two telco Optus today said it was on schedule to upgrade the speed of its hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) cable network in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to 100Mbps by mid-2010.

  • ISPs still buying ADSL kit

    Australian internet service providers are increasing their purchases of ADSL equipment, according to Ericsson, despite the potential for the construction of the National Broadband Network to make such investments irrelevant in the long term.

  • Brisbane centre to stay: Mincom CEO

    Mincom's trimmed headcount has put it under the microscope over the last year; however, the company's CEO Greg Clark has said that its Brisbane research and development centre "isn't going anywhere" and that a slimmer employee base didn't mean reduced capacity.

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    In an IT jobs triple-whammy, three Queensland executive IT positions were advertised over the weekend for the University of Queensland, Queensland Urban Utilities and Allconnex Water.

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    Matt Clarke was working for a large financial services company which had decided to take development of a new application in-house when he first met Radek Cerny, the software engineer who would become the other half of the founding team behind Australian start-up expanz.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Could NBN leave Rudd Iridium-faced?

    The NBN has never lacked critics arguing that it will be too expensive and will be irrelevant for millions of Australians already serviced through other means. Yet even as ACMA reports an explosion in wireless broadband, can we assume this growth dilutes the case for the NBN? Some have, but not all are convinced.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    12 days without ADSL: A local loop eulogy

    When your broadband speeds are limited to 38Kbps it's not hard to join the ranks of people demanding the NBN already. Telstra's copper network is a renovator's delight.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    How reliable is IP telephony?

    Have you ever heard a weird kind of hissing, crackling or popping noise when calling someone on an IP telephony line? How rare is the phenomenon these days?

  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

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    For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.

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  • Hosted email's battle for corporates

    The past year has seen education move widely to hosted email systems from either Microsoft or Google, while in-house systems or even old favourites such as Lotus Notes are left by the wayside. Is hosted email to be the corporate communications future, or will it stay in its niche market of students and individuals?

  • BoQ EDS fraud: Blow by blow

    The nation has heard about former EDS employee Reecson Wentworth Denford's audacious theft of $2.9 million dollars from Bank of Queensland, but what were the motives behind the sweeping fraud and what has it done to the man who committed it? Read our blow by blow account of the events.

  • Implementing the NBN study: What we know

    Within weeks the up to $53 million Federal Government-commissioned NBN implementation study is due to be delivered by lead advisers KPMG and McKinsey, but big questions remain: what is it, who's behind it and what impact will it have on the NBN Co's actual plans to build the network?

  • Google refuses to censor Chinese searches

    Google no longer intends to censor search results in China, and if the Chinese Government baulks, it may take its servers and go home.

  • EDS' BoQ disaster: The fallout

    There was a time when EDS Australia contractor Reecson Denford was living the dream. After taking advantage of his position to steal $2.9 million from EDS client Bank of Queensland (BoQ), Reecson spent $450,000 on French champagne, bought himself a $100,000 BMW and his wife $320,000 worth of jewellery.

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  • Google feeling the pinch?

    ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with senior editor Sam Diaz about Google's financial future according to one analyst. Diaz also discusses what the outlook may mean for the company's employees and its competitors.

  • Steve Ballmer still positive on tech economy

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks about the current financial crisis. Ballmer says the tech industry is weathering the economic storm, but is not immune to it.

  • Novell: We are a custodian to the Linux community

    The popularity of OpenOffice, the open source productivity suite, will be key to the financial success of Novell, said company president and CEO, Ron Hovsepian, who hopes to be a 'custodian' between the open source community and the commercial world. Also: Watch the videos.

  • Novell CEO: We remain committed to Linux

    The popularity of OpenOffice, the open source productivity suite, will be key to the financial success of Novell, said company president and CEO, Ron Hovsepian, who hopes to be a 'custodian' between the open source community and the commercial world. Also: Watch the videos.

  • Novell: OpenOffice is key

    The popularity of OpenOffice, the open source productivity suite, will be key to the financial success of Novell, said company president and CEO, Ron Hovsepian, who hopes to be a 'custodian' between the open source community and the commercial world. Also: Watch the videos.

Reviews (157)

  • The best VoIP solution is ...

    The world of enterprise IP telephony is varied and complex. Here's our round-up of the major players and what they can bring to your business.

  • What's the best blade server?

    Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.

  • The best CRM suite is...

    What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.

  • Apple iWork '09

    Intuitive interface design and easy access to useful features make iWork the best office suite choice on the Mac. Though it lacks some of Microsoft Office's advanced options, iWork '09 is an emerging powerhouse in its own right.

  • Google Docs beta

    Google Docs is a fantastic free online application that offers some exciting features. However, by virtue of being an online application, users with a slow connection will experience lag, and Docs still doesn't contain enough functionality to be a replacement for today's mainstay office suites in most businesses.

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