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• Budget: Few crumbs for ICT industry

  The Howard government's federal budget handed down yesterday contained little joy for Australia's ICT industry and the development of a world class communications sector.

• Let the political games begin

  A Federal Election is almost upon us, which means we can look forward to the rhetoric, political game-playing and buck-passing we've all come to expect from our nation's politicians. Rachel Lebihan takes a look at this proud Australian tradition.

• Digital economy launch: Photos

  Last night digital economy stakeholders and enthusiasts turned up in droves to be at the launch of Conroy's future directions paper.

• Network outages 'normal': Optus

  Optus this week claimed the 3G mobile outages it had been suffering were normal and every telecommunications carrier would be having similar issues.

• 2007: How was it for green IT?

  It's official, 2007 was the year in which green IT became important to the IT industry, with corporate giants like Google, Intel, HP, Dell, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems all willing to get their hands dirty.

Blogs (4)

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  BIG is butt ugly

  There's something to be said for the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen an idea of continually improving business via small changes something that unfortunately doesn't seem to glean many votes or impress punters.

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  Hidden meanings in NSW's 'People First'

  While some states boast about procurement plans and how much they'll boost industry coffers, the NSW government appears to be heading in the opposite direction.

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  MySpace: One small step for politicians

  Finally, after months of the Clintons posting Sopranos-style satires and Obama Girl grabbing the headlines during the American presidential race, Australian politicians have switched on to the power of the Internet.

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  Six different Vistas, same old view

  As we slowly creep closer to the launch of Windows Vista, it seems that the six different versions of Microsoft's new operating system are for the benefit of the company's PR machine rather than its customers.

Features and Case Studies (7)

• Telstra lost in the wasteland

  From dead parrots to ACCC lawsuits, the National Broadband Network and Fake Stephen Conroy, it's like Telstra is lost in T.S. Eliot's epic poem The Wasteland.

• Commentary: For and against Gate's 'creative capitalism'

  Two writers from ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com, Michael Kanellos and Declan McCullagh, debate Bill Gates' call for businesses to allocate resources that could alleviate problems in the developing world.

• Browsing opportunities: 11 Web browsers tested

  Feeling entrenched in your choice of browser? Break free! We compare 11 different browsers so you can find the right one for you and your company.

• Looking for business PCs under $2K?

  We set the specs and the price and had a look at what Australia's PC vendors could come up with in terms of performance.

• Can e-mail survive?

  E-mail has taken a battering over the last year or so with mountains of spam and viruses delivered to our mailboxes daily. Can the problem be fixed, and can e-mail still be free?

Reviews (6)

• Browsing opportunities: 11 Web browsers compared

  Feeling entrenched in your choice of browser? Break free! We compare 11 different browsers so you can find the right one for you and your company.

• Computing on a budget: 7 PCs tested

  We set the specs and the price and had a look at what Australia's PC vendors could come up with in terms of performance

• Intel 2.2 Gigahertz P4: Fast, power-thrifty

  We test the P4 2.2Ghz chip in one of Intel's latest motherboards. In our test the performance is measured with a Winfast Geforce 3 graphics card, under Windows XP.

• Office not so suite

  You may not believe this, but Microsoft thinks we're biased...against Microsoft. But if reactions to our office suite review are anything to go by, our readers disagree.

• How open is the new Office?

  Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.

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