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Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce has cleared the way for the federal government to sell Telstra by finally agreeing to back the deal.
Senator Helen Coonan, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, is to examine the adequacy of the current telecommunications regulatory regime as the government prepares a scoping study into the sale of its remaining shares in Telstra.
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Bill Gibson, CIO of the Australian Tax office, spoke to ZDNet.com.au about why he doesn't completely trust open source software; how the ATO handles security and why competing vendors will have to learn to work together.
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At Apple's official launch of the iPhone software development kit, Chuck Dietrich, Salesforce.com vice president of mobile, demos new business software on the device. The tools let sales representatives manage applications such as analytics and business intelligence tools on the go. The Apple event took place at company headquarters in California.
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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