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  • Austrade seeks new CTO

    Australia's Trade Commission Austrade has advertised for a chief technology officer to work out of Canberra.

  • Centrelink, CSIRO join forces on Services IT

    Federal welfare agency Centrelink and research organisation CSIRO will be working together on better IT to deliver services to the agency's clients.

  • Labour NZ appeals to Telecom's conscience

    Several senior members of New Zealand's Labour opposition party have published an extraordinary public letter to Telecom New Zealand, asking the telco to re-examine the terms of a controversial contract that is causing widespread unionised industrial action.

  • Govt 2.0 calls for blog comments

    The Government 2.0 taskforce has called for public comments on its Towards Government 2.0 discussion paper.

  • NSW Ageing Dept tinkers with Siebel

    NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (DADHC) has given itself the mission to make its core Siebel system more user-friendly for its staff.

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  • Australian security: the lucky country

    Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?

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    Conroy's Six: Can FTTN's gatekeepers deliver?

    Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Give me a ship, and a trading scheme to steer her by

    Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?

  • 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.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Fibre isn't for everyone

    Just a few days after the Australia Connected program was launched Communications Minister Helen Coonan was selling the initiative to the TV talk shows.

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  • NBN will require a govt blank cheque

    A new Goldman Sachs report reinforces the market's conclusion that, whatever the National Broadband Network looks like, it is going to have to be taxpayer-funded and the cheques will be massive.

  • Future direction trapped in halt state

    Stephen Conroy's opus on the future direction of Australia's Digital Economy mainly curates existing success stories and government policies, and does little to demonstrate any form of roadmap to take the nation out of the Dark Ages.

  • Office 2010 Technical Preview: A first look

    As Microsoft unveils the next version of its flagship Office suite, we ask: is it revolution or evolution?

  • Why Twitter will renew journalism

    Twitter is not the great evil for journalists and media. In fact, it is helping to renew the media and bring that great lady called "journalism" back to her rightful throne.

  • Q&A: Leslie Nassar (Fake Stephen Conroy)

    Leslie Nassar, the satirist behind the Fake Stephen Conroy persona, tells why he started the identity, why he stopped, and how he thinks the Australian public reacted to it.

Reviews (22)

  • Ubuntu Linux 5.10

    Ubuntu is a well integrated, practical and absolutely free Linux distribution. There may be worries about support, but the Canonical organisation is building a good reputation and the head of steam in the wider Ubuntu community should provide decent local support from third parties, too.

  • Motorola V171

    Motorola's clamshell v171 is a back-to-basics phone designed for the budget conscious consumer.

  • First Take: Nokia 9300

    The full-featured Nokia 9300 is a portable office in the palm of your hand.

  • New Web-phone unveiled in Sydney

    Payphone manufacturer and operator TriTel today unveiled a new payphone that offers Internet access, e-mail, Web browsing and SMS messaging.

  • Age has not wearied them

    Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.

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