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    Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, hosted a meeting of high-level Telstra executives and industry figures this morning, with the intention of abating concerns over the migration from CDMA to Next G.

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    The New Zealand Fire Service is embarking on a three- to five-year effort to overhaul the organisation's IT systems as a ministerial review promises far-reaching changes for the organisation.

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    Notebooks powered by desktop processors are nothing new, but the ThinkPad G40 is an affordable, practical desktop replacement.

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    Digital imaging has made dazzling leaps in the half-decade since the first cameras appeared, yet even with three-megapixel sensors available, the glass remains half full. And anyone who's ever picked up a decent 35mm camera knows the drinking glass is also half-empty when digital imaging is concerned. In this issue, we review nine of the newest digital cameras, those with two- and three-megapixel sensors from Canon, Casio, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Nikon, Olympus, Ricoh, and Sony.

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