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• VoIP war stories from the Australian front

  In this feature, ZDNet.com.au speaks to IT managers across the nation to collate their "war stories" deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in their organisations. Cut through the spin and find out what's really happening on the Australian VoIP front.

• What is the NBN good for?

  Despite Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's assurances to the contrary, in my crystal ball I'm seeing a broadband price rise coming to millions of Australians once the National Broadband Network has been built.

• Business warming up to the iPhone

  Apple has captivated the general public with the iPhone, but has it convinced the business world to take the plunge?

• RFID round-up: Still in the trough

  Despite its clear benefits in stock tracking and the success of early, isolated pilot tests in tracking high-value assets, RFID technology is still spinning its wheels as ongoing high costs and unclear return on investment continue to keep once-enthusiastic customers away in droves.

• What makes a good CIO?

  What does it take to be a great chief information officer? We talk to Australian CIOs, analysts and human resource managers to find out. The results might surprise you.

• Gartner: Green IT falls off the agenda

  Green IT has shifted way down the priority list for corporate technologists, according to analyst firm Gartner, which this week released the latest version of its top 10 strategic technology areas list for the coming year.

• When will virtual worlds become a business tool?

  Reality has been cruel to virtual worlds, with most failing to live up to expectations, especially in business environments. Did analysts get that right or are they also guilty of second-degree Second Life hyping?

• The war against VoIP: How long can the telcos fight?

  Voice over IP has reached some major milestones in 2008 in both the enterprise and consumer ends of the market but how long can traditional telcos continue to fight against this disruptive technology?

• How do CIOs keep up with technology?

  Keeping up with changing technologies means CIOs have to go through a mountain of information, and then decide which of it if any is useful to their company. ZDNet.com.au delves into how they do it.

• Microsoft to try again for Yahoo or for Facebook?

  With Yahoo apparently off the table, what's Microsoft's back-up plan? Try again for Yahoo or go for a new target?

• Facebook: The Google of social networks?

  Since lifting its university-only restrictions in September 2006, Facebook has become the poster child for social networks and attracted more than 65 million users. But will it survive 'the next big thing'?

• Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

  A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory

• Mobile comms: can you predict the future?

  Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.

• Green your datacentre or it may go dark

  Being green, in terms of IT and datacentres, only very superficially has anything to do with saving the environment. In reality it is about cold, hard cash and how to spend less of it.

• Who guards the guards: Storage

  Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.

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