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  • IBM picks new NZ chief

    Senior IBM staffer Jennifer Moxon has been appointed managing director of the company's New Zealand operation.

  • CITEC swallows Qld's transformation project

    Responsibility for Queensland's formerly stand-alone Technology Transformation Program has been rolled into the government's technology service provider CITEC.

  • When angry Telstra shareholders attack

    Telstra shareholders travelled from far and wide to vent their frustrations as owners and customers to the telco's chairperson, Catherine Livingstone and chief David Thodey.

  • Squiz buys Funnelback

    Content management company Squiz has acquired Funnelback, an Australian search firm spun off from the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation.

  • Defence seals Gershon-Microsoft deal

    Minister for Finance and Deregulation Lindsay Tanner today announced that Defence had locked down its first Gershon-related procurement deal with software giant Microsoft.

Blogs (12)

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    The more things change...

    With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    In CDMA hubbub, don't forget the broadband

    Last week, a family friend rang for some technical help. "Telstra sold me this wireless Internet service and they promised it would work both at my home and at my office," he said. Said home is in the Melbourne CBD, and said office is in Kyneton, a lovely town about an hour away from Melbourne.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Can the Telco Reform Act be win-win?

    In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    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.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Weighing the odds for the new Sol

    Telstra changed so much internally under Sol Trujillo's watch that it seems likely the company's next CEO will be drawn from a small pool of executives who are already well practised in the Way of Sol.

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  • ICT R&D setbacks should not go unchecked

    Over the last few years we've made a few statements about the requirement for ICT to make it onto the national agenda as a foreign policy issue. Two clear areas stand out as worth exploring.

  • Qld Govt: The usual ICT suspects

    Despite a changing of the guard in several influential departments and offices in the past 2-years (Health, Transport, Emergency Services, Police, Premier's, Public Works, and QGCIO, to name a few), the true identity of ICT influence in Queensland government still rests with the agency CIOs.

  • UK company pledges 100 new ICT jobs for Victoria

    Winning a major government contract has convinced one British company to open a Melbourne branch, creating 100 new ICT jobs in Victoria by mid 2004.

  • Exetel boss bets against NBN and Quigley

    Boss of internet service provider Exetel, John Linton, says the National Broadband Network should be handed to the only company that can build it Telstra and he's not impressed by NBN Co chief Mike Quigley.

  • Cracks in Telstra's defence

    The appointment of Telstra's new management represents a break from the company's past of friction with the Federal Government and regulators. But, however it is presented, Telstra's stance towards those seeking to reduce it has to continue to be aggressively defensive.

Reviews (13)

  • UPDATE: Qld government muscles carriers into better coverage

    The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".

  • Telstra pledges better bush telecommunications

    Telstra Country Wide has announced a AU$231 million investment in 2003/04 to improve services to regional areas.

  • Vodafone lashes ACCC mobile regulation

    Vodafone has called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to ease several regulations governing the Australian mobile phone industry.

  • WirelessUSB gets cheaper - at a cost

    A technology aimed at replacing cables for mice, keyboards and other peripherals is getting an upgrade, but data speeds could be its weakest link.

  • Do you copy? Over and out.

    Last week saw two legal wins for copyright owners in their battle against piracy, but raised questions of whether large corporations are playing fair in the marketplace. If they're so keen on globalisation and having a 'level playing field', lets see them walk the walk themselves.

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